Homelessness in the United States

I volunteered for an organization called Service Works. It’s a nationwide organization that helps young adults in developing communities to build acquired skills to prepare for college and their career paths. After reading about them and volunteering, I wrote about them because of its commitment towards helping young adult in the community. Service Works provide success coaches for young individuals as role models, and people that they can interact with if they have any problems, questions, or…

dependent on the drug. Such individuals fall victim to situations such as crime and violence. Some of them develop psychological issues and need to be institutionalized and like many of them they end up imprisoned. Despite the society’s view on homelessness, many communities offer shelters for victims who are homeless. In these shelters food and accommodation is offered to these individuals though some of these resources can be limited, some of the religious organizations have come forth and…

assistance is available to refugees both under 1951 Refugee Convention and the international human rights law. Article 23 of 1951 Refugee Convention provides that: “The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment with respect to public relief…

There are many different kinds of specialized courts ranging from drug courts, domestic violence courts, homeless courts, and mental health courts. Homeless courts were created only for the homeless, these courts differ from other courts. Homeless courts are different because they are used to resolving unsettled misdemeanor warrants as opposed to processing new criminal offenses. The purpose of establishing homeless courts are: 1) most homeless people are fine with continuing being homeless and…

The Salvation Army by: Isabel H. An amazing charity is The Salvation Army. The Salvation Army charity is a worldwide charity with many donors, followers, and supporters around the world. Who help the charity out and give support. The Salvation Army is a Christian denominational church and an international charitable organization. This organization was found July 2nd of 1865 in London by one-time Methodist circuit- preacher William Booth. Mr.Booth made this charity to help the hungry…

because my quotation shows teen homelessness and it supports Barbara Haworth Attard opinion or my thesis that teen homelessness is a issue. I did online research that why teens are homeless "Youth Homelessness." Covenant House. N.p., 2015. Web. What I found was “Teen become homeless for a variety of reasons which include fleeing or being forced out of homes where there is abuse or neglect”. Connection between my thesis and research is that my research shows teen homelessness is a issue which…

My personal experience with community service is very limited. Through my church group and my school we would serve meals at the homeless shelter various times during the year. We would be at the shelter for increments of five hours at a time. Two hours were allotted to prepare parts of the meal, another two were used for serving food, and the last hour was used for cleaning up the kitchen and dining area. The only other community service I have done was through my high school Science Club; we…

earthquake, San Francisco earthquake, and Santa Cruz quake. I have chosen the “Santa Cruz earthquake” since the hit centered Loma Prieta mountains near to Santa Cruz County. According to the historians, the Loma Prieta earthquake was major one in the United States. (History.com…

the statistics given by Berne et al., were from 1990, even current statistics still show that approximately 900,000 homeless people each year are families. Although Michael has a job, it still wasn’t enough to keep a roof over his family. Michael states his family was homeless after his father came back from Vietnam. This made me think about the cycle of poverty that is so prevalent in America. Mullin and Ambrosia (2005) identify that the homeless population are more likely to suffer from acute…

Assignment List C4 – Youth Homelessness in Canada Homeless youths are teens that have no place to live. They live on the streets instead wandering around for food and money and in today’s society, shelter is considered to be a basic human right. Even today a very basic home can be unaffordable for people who don’t make enough money like elders and disabled people who are on a fixed pension or young people who lack the required education or experience to gain the desired income. This is…