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With the growing need to maintain financial stability and the constant aspiration to climb up the social ladder, the rise of homelessness and lack of justice is a growing epidemic that many fail to give thought and attention to. Usually, the instinct of many individuals upon coming into contact with an individual begging for financial help, or merely coming across a homeless encampment, is to keep walking and turn a head away. For the few who are able to spare some change or a sincere…

Self – Help Group Reflection January 5, 2017 at 9:00AM I attended the We Care AA Skid Row Drifters Alcohol Anonymous group meeting. The meeting consisted of about 20 people. Located in downtown Los Angeles, skid row has as many as “6,000 homeless people living” there at any given time. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3824528/Skid-Row-revealed-striking-photographs.html). I thought it was interesting that the group meeting was in the center of skid row. Individuals who live in skid row,…

Owning A Pet Dog Is A Beneficial Thing “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened,” states Anatole France, a famous poet and journalist, who has won a Nobel Prize in literature. Owning a dog is brilliant and needed at some point in a person’s life because a dog teaches you how to become more responsible and caring. They teach you these things by demonstrating them, themselves. First of all, a pet dog always remains loyal to its owner. Secondly, it can help it’s…

obstacles in a person’s life. Therefore, ending up on the streets can be easier than obtaining and/or maintaining a stable sheltered life. Those who become homeless need help to get back on their feet. Within our community, the Athens Area Homeless Shelter is an agency that provides transitional services for the homeless like: case management, job training, rehousing, financial assistance, financial education, counseling, etc.…

“In Detroit alone”, Veronika Scott, CEO of The Empowerment Plan-Detroit reports, “there are over 20,000 homeless people living on the streets. Additionally, there are 70,000 buildings are abandoned. Knowing there are only three main shelters in the city, only housing 1,600 individuals, the city does not even try to board the buildings up. The city officials know homelessness is a large issue, but do not know how to go about fixing it” (Scott, 2016). Veronika Scott, a 24-year-old recent college…

problem from the early 2000’s till now. Although in January of 2012 a overall point count had 633,782 of homeless people found throughout the united states. Recent studies have an estimate of 1.6 million people using transitional housing or emergency shelters. From all of these people, ⅓ of these people have a household of children, increasing by 9 percent since 2007. Another study has found that 1.35 million children out of the 3.5 million people are likely to experience homelessness in a year…

operate 6:30-9:30 p.m. every night of the year” (“coalition for the homeless”). This organization also offers shelter for the people in New York City. If you join them they want you to collect school supplies and book bags for children who cannot afford them so they can go to school and get an education. On the website they have charts showing more than 60,000 people in NYC are in homeless shelters every night 20,000 of them being children. Back in the 80’s those numbers were as low as 20,000.…

In todays world there are many homeless. People struggle to find jobs, shelter, and even love. We could save half of the world or more is homeless. There are many foundations that try to stop hunger or try to provide for homeless individuals. Those who are less fortunate should not be punished. They should not be a nuances. We should not look at them as anything less then a person. It is true that sometimes the homeless can be disturbing but we need to help them to make the situation better.…

The cost of a single person living in the united states is 12,863 per person. That's 51,452 for a family of four. Most Americans have to work multiple jobs to be able to live. Some get benefits, but there's not always enough benefits or “money” to go around to our american citizens, and there are still thousands of homeless people and families living in the united states. Yet we still seem to have enough money to bring people from disaster stricken countries to america. The fact of it is that we…

money for their effort, and effort is used very loosely. These types of people would rather be lazy living on the streets then get a job and work for a better life. The state of Oregon is under a homeless epidemic, and we can aid them by creating shelters, job opportunities, and getting them the help they need. Today I am not…