National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

going to work. On the way to work you see a homeless person holding up a sign that says, “Please donate”, with a bucket on the front. What would people do at this situation? Many have ignored the homeless and few have helped. There are reasons why we ignore them instead of helping, but helping someone in our world is a “good deed”. We consider that helping the homeless is a good deed because helping can make positive change. So, how can we help the homeless and why should we help them? There…

Homelessness in America Homelessness has been a problem that we’ve been facing for a long time now. Through the years we have noticed different patterns on the homelessness population in the U.S. alone: the homeless population has gone up, down, but has never completely disappeared. In the U.S. alone, homelessness has become a huge problem that may escalate in the near future if we don’t try and find solutions to it. Homelessness has to be the cause of something, right? It can’t just happen out…

Homelessness has become a serious issue in America, with 610,042 individuals found to be homeless in January 2013. 85% of homeless persons are individuals, but 15% are in family households. This makes the issue of homelessness even more drastic, with 33% of all homeless people being youths under the age of 24. Homelessness affects many people and those who live in poverty are more at risk of becoming homeless. Statistics on homelessness can often be inconclusive because they tend to be limited…

encounter with war, World War I, placed many veterans on the streets, World War II would create a much larger number of veterans who found themselves struggling with housing and employment. The United States enlisted thousands of servicemen and women in the 1940s to combat World War II. Many enlistees found themselves homeless prior to war, served in battle, and then returned to the streets. However, the addition of the G.I Bill, a program designed to give veterans the opportunity to receive…

people who suffer from being homeless also suffer from a mental illness. Because they suffer from a mental illness, it restricts them from holding a job. It also could cause them to retract themselves from society. After they become homeless, it only worsens their mental state because they no longer receive the correct medications or the correct care to help them get better (The National Coalition for the Homeless). Many veterans, who account for over 50,000 of homeless people, suffer from PTSD.…

Homelessness has and continues to affect many people in the United States, such as single parents, children and veterans. No one wakes up and decides to become homeless. Homelessness, in most cases, is an economic problem. However, in other cases, it can be caused by medical and political problems as well. People become homeless for a variety of reasons such as lack of affordable housing, long-term mental illness, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency and lack of public assistance.…

no one behind on the battlefield. But many veterans are beginning to believe their country has left them behind at home. We all say we are thankful for are veterans but how do we show it? A national problem that faces Americans today is the treatment of our veterans. It’s been debated on and on, is are veterans treated like heroes? Everyday in 2017 an average of 20 veterans committed suicide. In the last 15 years more…

A Burden To Society The homeless have gone down in history as a burden to society almost since the start of humanity. Society has finally began to make a movement Instead of talking about how it affects society to help change this bad situation in a positive way that benefits everyone. As it is known homelessness is someone who does not have a home therefore living on the streets. This has created a problematic matter in America, the numbers ranging from two-hundred and five-hundred thousand in…

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs reports that there are approximately 22.2 million living veterans. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), substance abuse disorders, depression, and anxiety occur at a higher rate in veterans (Spelman et al., 2012, p. 1200), and every day twenty-two veterans take their own lives. (Department of Veterans Affairs, Kemp, RN PhD, Bossarte, PhD, 2012, p. 15) Sadly, veterans that want mental health treatment cannot get appointments at the V.A., and some who would…

or other forms of homeless housing (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2011). It is impossible to measure with 100% accuracy the amount of individuals who have experienced homelessness over the years, however research has shown that over the past few decades the capacity of transitional housing and emergency shelters has tripled, in order to attempt to accommodate the rising rates of individuals without homes. Although the exact amount of individuals who are considered homeless cannot be…