Supportive housing

Poor health is a major cause of homelessness. Ultimate loss of a place to call home combine with poor health, no income and limited personal support leads to homelessness. Living on the streets or in crowded homeless shelters can become very stressful and made worse being exposed to communicable disease like Tuberculosis or respiratory illnesses. Besides, individuals with common conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and asthma can worsen because there is no safe place to store…

Homelessness preventions have been a huge problem in Fresno the last few years. Many of the homeless are individuals that have been laid off from jobs, veterans, drug addicts, and/ or individuals that simply do not want to better their lives. Regardless of all the shelters and programs that help the homeless, homelessness is increasing in the city of fresno. In the last few months alone, fresno has been changing due to economic and social issues. With the increase of homelessness in the city,…

mentally ill, seriously emotionally disturbed, abused or at risk for mental health problems functioning in a healthy manner at school and community. La Child Guidance also assist adolescents and young adults into transition to temporary to permanent housing, maximizes empowerment, and independence. As an agency we strive to help the individual’s fully inclusion integrate into the American society. Interventions Hypothesis Full integrations into the American Society…

For many teenagers without a support system, “aging out” also means lack of services. Once a teenager leaves foster care, 60 percent of services dropped. These services includes housing and food assistance, medical health, and mental health services. Most teenagers will stop any medications they were given while in foster care because they do not want it or cannot afford it (McMillen & Raghavan, 2009). For various reasons teenagers do not continue mental health services. Some reasons are back of…

hard issue to tackle, we as mental health counselors can help families going through homelessness. One major cause of homelessness as reported by the article this week is a lack of affordable housing across the nation. As providers we could potentially connect the families to services that are supportive of their current disadvantaged situation. Doing outreach work and connecting families…

benefit,” however, many of the benefits of welfare are going to children of immigrants that were born in the United States (Gomez). In conclusion, the different programs of welfare provided has greatly helped Americans during their times of struggle. Housing programs give people a place to live, Pell grants help pay for the secondary education of students, and SNAP provides food stamps for those who have low income and cannot afford to buy groceries. Despite the tension about illegal immigrants…

Transitional Housing Programs Bibliography Meganne K. Arnett Kaplan University . Bibliography Thesis Statement: Due to the inflation of the homeless in the Adams County region, a transitional housing program should be set up to aid those who need a home, are trying to hold on to their home, or are in dire need of assistance with housing payments. Social Solutions. (2015.) Homeless Services. Retrieved from: http://www.socialsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/homeless-US-EB.pdf…

The photo voice assignment provided an alternative way of self-expression on justice and injustice. Wag explains that photo voice is a process in which “people can identify, represent and enhance their community through a specific photographic technique.” (Wang, 1997). It allowed the class to share their views on what each person considers justice and injustice. In the process, the class found that many of the pictures taken, were of concern not only to one person but to the class as whole. Wang…

Homelessness: Solutions to helping others Homelessness, what’s it like to find yourself with nowhere to live? Why do people get to the point that they have no one or anything to turn to, so they abandon their homes and turn to the streets? Homeless people are becoming a big problem throughout the world. The definition for a homeless person is a person who cannot afford to live in a home and abandons it to live on the streets. There are many reasons why people become homeless. They lose their…

ex-offenders —a violation of their parole. Additionally, this refusal provision may keep released individuals from securing housing near their support systems, something that has been shown to increase the chance that individuals will be successful. According to Dan Blanchard, a division director with AP&P, many released individuals try to move in with family members upon release, but this option is eliminated for ex-offenders whose families live in rental units under the Good Landlord Program.…