homeless population can be described as a social grouping that is susceptible for the reason that the homeless experience greater risk for poor health-related results. Considering the situation of homelessness and the connection involving availability of resources, health status and relative risks, it becomes critical for the nurses to come up with diagnosis and treatments for health-associated problems in this kind of vulnerable population. The description of this article touches on the homeless as a vulnerable population applying health-associated problems of model of vulnerable population as a theoretical framework. A repeated matter, in the Springfield Massachusetts shelters, is about the setting free of prisoners exclusive of discharge planning that gives opportunity for going ahead with care for mental illness. In 1970's deinstitutionalization decided to do away with mentally ill warehousing in facilities that do not recognizes the rights of human. Sufficient community supports fail to be present to this…...
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homeless population may have their share of difficulties with certain areas of life, there are also certain benefits. Although the "job" may not be glamorous, panhandling can be an easy, work-free way to gain financial income. In addition, panhandling income is tax free, and sometimes more lucrative than a regular full time position.
Panhandling can be a lucrative "business," depending on the area of the country a person is living. For example, in Philadelphia, eginald Tull, a 36-year-old, gentle, smooth talking panhandler made a health income from panhandling. Tull himself brought in $250.00 to $300.00 a week, just through panhandling. According to city statistics, the average working person, earning minimum wage and working 40 hours a week, earns only $206.00 (Hinkelman, 2002). According to the Santa Cruz County Homeless 2000 Census and Needs Assessment eport, over 11% of respondents got their daily living money through panhandling, and earned more than…...
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Hinkelman, Michael. "Panhandling $250 to $300 a Week." Philadelphia Daily News. 24 June, 2002. Philadelphia Daily News. RealCities. 4 March, 2004. http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/3532299.htm
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Census and Needs Assessment. Santa Cruz, CA: United Way.
Homeless.org. "Homelessness." Homelessness, Make Change. 13 Feb, 2004. Homeless.org. Grassroots.org. 4 March, 2004. http://www.homeless.org/do/Home
B. Prevention
The most important step in the plan, prevention will target the root causes of homelessness, providing resources for those who are at-risk for becoming homeless. Some of the prevention measures will include family counseling centers, shelters, and divorce support groups where families in transition can find financial, legal, and emotional help while receiving tips and assistance on keeping their houses. Funds and counseling for disaster survivors should be established, and treatment centers for the mentally ill should be put into place.
C. Outreach
This part of the plan will seek to benefit those who are already homeless. This will take volunteers to reach out to the homeless, find out what has brought them to this state, and offer them support, as well as temporary and long-term housing.
D. Shortening Homeless Time
Because many people are tossed into homelessness due to circumstances that cannot be foreseen, prevention of homelessness as a whole is most…...
mlaReferences
Almanac of Policy Issues. (n.d.). "Homelessness." Retrieved April 11, 2009, from the Almanac of Policy Issues Web Site. Web Site:
http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/homeless.shtml.
Donohoe, M. (2004, July 7). Homelessness in the United States: History, Epidemiology,
Health Issues, Women, and Public Policy." Retrieved April 11, 2009, from Medscape Today. Web Site: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/481800 .
Program for the Mentally Ill Homeless Population
This research project is an attempt to determine if a community-based program serving the mentally ill homeless population has met its goal of reducing hospitalizations for acute psychiatric episodes. An attempt to identify the elements that define the difference in this program will be identified and evaluated. The literature shows that treating the mentally ill homeless population is especially difficult in terms of building lasting relationships based on trust. The population tends to move from one area to another within the city and become elusive when they are looked for. This program will be evaluated for its effectiveness in preventing hospitalizations for acute psychiatric episodes, the usefulness of case managing, including ensuring clients have and are taking their medications and whether this program has been more successful than traditional programs in finding permanent housing for it's clients.
Problem and Purpose
Homelessness is on the rise.…...
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Aday, L. (1993), At risk in America: the health and health care needs of vulnerable populations in the Unites States. San Francisco, California.
Alter, C., Hage, J. (1993), Organizations working together. Newbury Park, California, Sage.
American Journal of Psychiatry. (1993), Treatment of homeless men who are mentally ill.
Bolland, J., Wilson, J. (1994), Three faces of integrative coordination: a model of in interorganizational relations in community-based health and human services. Health Services Res.
substance abuse, PTSD, domestic violence, family functioning, juvenile delinquency or adult criminality, parenting skills, self-esteem, depression, OCD, child well-being, mental status, adoption stability, anxiety, and wellness. f there is a variable of interest to you that is not included on this list, please check with your instructor to determine if it is an appropriate substitution.
Description: Provide the name and a brief description of the instrument including how it is administered, the length (number of items), general scoring information and other relevant information. Be sure to cite the sources for the information you use.
The instrument am exploring is the Family Assessment Measure , which can be completed by family members from age 10 to adult. There are six scales in the FAM-, each of which takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. The self-report instrument has three forms: 1) a General Scale for assessing overall family well-being (50 items); 2)…...
mlaIn Jacob (1995), families with at least one adolescent aged 12 to 18 were recruited through newspaper advertisements. The race and ethnicity reported that 90% of the participants were white. The participating families completed two rounds of the Family Environment Scale (FES), the FAM, and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES-II). The time frames addressed by the rounds were varied, such that the participants might be asked to respond with regard to their family in general, or according to some time certain, say, two weeks ago. All three assessments showed good test-retest reliability for both parents and children. High positive correlations were found between the different time-frame instructional conditions. One exception was found in that the FAM did not show significant time-frame instruction effects. The authors believe this is due to the emphasis on general characteristics in the FAM compared to the other two instruments.
4. Validity: Discuss the validity of measurement of the variable. Make sure to cite all validity information you get from other sources. It is not appropriate to just state, "this measure has been found to be valid." You need details and citations. Your description should indicate that you have a clear understanding of the meaning of the concept of validity by providing a relevant discussion about the approaches to establishing validity reported in the material you cite. If you have a difficult time finding information that pertains to the validity of a measure, be sure to discuss ways in which information about the validity of the measure could be obtained.
Construct validity was the primary focus when the FAM-III was developed, but predictive validity and concurrent validity measures were also employed. The construct validation paradigm has been applied to many different sample types (the authors cite Jackson, 1971; Skinner, 1981, 1987). Considerable research was conducted with special populations, and the mean raw scores and standard deviations are reported. The authors suggest that further validation can be accomplished by comparing results with the MHS Quikscore TM Forms, and relative to the specific
HOMELESS POPULATION ESEACH Homeless Population esearch: Homeless Personnel in VirginiaThere are a number of challenges that one could encounter in the course of sampling homeless personnel in Virginia. The two challenges that will be addressed on this front relate to; i) selection of a representative sample and ii) obtaining an ideal sample size.Selection of a epresentative Sample SizeFrom the onset, it would be prudent to note that as Creswell (2014) points out, an ideal sample ought to be representative of the whole study population. It therefore follows that in the absence of a representative sample, data validity and reliability could be impacted negatively. In seeking to reign in this particular challenge, I would make use of the most ideal sampling method for the research study in question. Given that the present study seeks to focus on homeless personnel in Virginia, the most ideal sampling method would be simple random sampling…...
mlaReferencesCreswell, J.W. (2014). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. SAGE. Faber, J. & Fonseca, L.M. (2014). How sample size influences research outcomes. Dental Press J Orthod., 19(4), 27-29.
With the increase in families, and thus children and teens on the street, there has been a subsequent increase in youth drug use, pregnancy and crime, especially violent and sexual crimes. This disturbing trend has created a new challenge to how to deal with the homeless epidemic as new resources are needed. Further, many of the traditional charitable organizations are unequipped to deal with this new need, meaning that few services are now available to the homeless.
In conclusion, if anything is clear, it is that the homeless problem is becoming worse instead of better. Instead of homeless individuals, there are now homeless families. With this, the cycle of homelessness continues, giving society few, if any, options on stopping the vicious and continuing downward spiral of poverty, homelessness, and the multitude of problems associated with it.
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Aday, Lu Ann. (1994): "Health Status of Vulnerable Populations." Annual Review of PUblic Health. 15:487-509.
DePastino, Todd.…...
mlaBibliography
Aday, Lu Ann. (1994): "Health Status of Vulnerable Populations." Annual Review of PUblic Health. 15:487-509.
DePastino, Todd. (2003): Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. New York: Random House.
United States Code, Title 42, Chapter 119, Subchapter I, section 11302. "General definition of homeless individual." United States Code. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government.
Wood, David. (1992): Delivering Health Care to Homeless Persons: The Diagnosis and Management of Medical and Mental Health Conditions. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Homelessness: A still-Important issue
Homelessness is not just a housing problem. As noted by PLoS Medicine "there is a substantial prevalence of mental disorders among homeless people in Western countries. Among prior studies meeting criteria for consideration, the prevalence of alcohol dependency ranged from 8.1% -- 58.5%, and drug dependence ranged from 4.5% -- 54.2%. For psychotic illnesses, the prevalence ranged from 2.8% -- 42.3%, with similar findings for major depression." Homelessness is an issue which is dealt with on federal, state, and local levels. Federal policies such as healthcare reform can impact the ability of people to receive treatment for substance abuse, for example. State and local ordinances can impact access to affordable housing, how drug crimes are prosecuted, and whether it is legal to panhandle or even to offer assistance to the homeless.
The plight of the homeless was thrown into sharp relief recently when the city of Fort Lauderdale…...
mlaReferences
Florida Department of Children and Families. (2014). Official Website. Retrieved from:
http://www.myflfamilies.com/service-programs/homelessness
Goldberg, E. (2014). 90-year-old Florida man faces jail Time, $500 fine for feeding homeless.
The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/man-90-arrested-feeding-homeless_n_6100738.html
Homelessness Among Veterans
Among the social problems that have continuously bothered successive governments over the years. The problem is further compounded bearing that the veterans offered their best duty to the country when the need was most dire. As the years pass, as the US engages in one more war, veterans keep increasing and prospect for having more veterans will keep going up. The increase is astronomical for the homeless veterans. Currently at least 15% of the homeless population is consisted of the veterans. By 2008 there were approximately 135,000 homeless veterans tough this number is said to have reduced by 47% by 2016 (U.S. Department of Homeless Veterans, 2017).
Veterans are said to the prone to being homeless than other Americans by 50% due to poverty, poor support network and squalid living environments within overcrowded housing units. It is estimated that 1.5 million veterans are considered as at risk population, meaning…...
"The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2011" Census.gov (2012): 32, internet, 26 Jun. 2013. Available: http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf.]
With so many residents facing homelessness, it seems imperative to understand the cost of not implementing the hygiene centers through the local public health departments. When researchers examined the hospitalization rates of homeless persons in Honolulu, Hawaii, they found that hospitalizations in acute-care hospitals occurred at a rate 5.6-fold above the average for state residents.[footnoteRef:6] for psychiatric hospitals, it was 131-fold higher. The estimated cost of the excess hospitalization for the 1,751 homeless persons studied was close to $3.5 million in 1992 dollars. In 2010 dollars,[footnoteRef:7] this would amount to about $4.9 million. Based on a homeless population of 136,000 to 750,000 for the State of California, the excess medical costs associated with homelessness could be somewhere between $381 million and $2.1 billion dollars per year. [6: Jon V. Martell et al., "Hospitalization in an…...
Otherwise, they would not have been taken into the military (they were volunteers), supporting the theory that the military had an impact upon their being homeless (ibid., 377).
Among all of these populations, IQ dropped and mental illnesses such as schizophrenia increased as the study predicted. There is not enough information though to determine whether or not the populations of the homeless were predisposed (just that there was higher population of them) toward an IQ drop or mental illness or whether other events were responsible and the authors called for more research. However, one should expect that if one discharges a homeless person (veteran or not) that has a cognitive problem, then we should not be surprised when they join the homeless population.
(ibid., 377-378).
The candor and reservation about the results would indicate to this author the accuracy of the study's results. In terms of veterans' affairs, this then would explain…...
mlaReferences
Resnick, R.G., & Rosenheck, R.A. (2008). Posttraumatic stress disorder and employment in veterans participating in veterans health administration compensated work therapy. Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development, 45(3), 427 -- 436.
Spence, S., Stevens, R., & Parks, R. (2004). Cognitive dysfunction in homeless adults: a systematic review. Journal of the royal society of medicine, 97, 375-379.
homelessness and mental illness are inextricably intertwined. One way that mental illness impacts people's lives is that it oftentimes renders them unable to carry out the functions of daily life, such as keeping a job, paying their bills, and managing a household. In addition to disrupting the events of daily life, mental illness "may also prevent people from forming and maintaining stable relationships or cause people to misinterpret others' guidance and react irrationally" (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2009). What this means is that a population that is already vulnerable because of an inability to consistently manage self-care lacks the same safety net as much of the rest of society.
People with mental illnesses are at greater risk of homelessness. This is particularly true for people with serious mental illnesses, particularly those that might impact their reality testing, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression (National Coalition for the…...
mlaReferences
Folsom, D.P., Hawthorne, W., Lindamer, L., Gilmer, T., Bailey, A., Golshan, S., Garcia, P.,
Unutzer, J., Hough, R., and Jeste, D.V. (2005). Prevalence and risk factors for homelessness and utilization of mental health services among 10,340 patients with serious mental illness in a large public mental health system." American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 370-376.
National Coalition for the Homeless. (2009, July). Mental illness and homelessness.
Retrieved April 13, 2013 from National Coalition for the Homeless website: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pdf
Data also indicates that almost one-fifth of the homeless population is female, many of whom are on the streets due to domestic abuse and/or substance abuse, and most of whom find themselves in the same abusive relationships as sent them to the streets in the first place. Moreover, for the street homeless, shelters are often seen as a last resort, as many surveyed found them too violent and dangerous, too restrictive and constraining, with many feeling more at ease sleeping in the park.
Permanent housing for homeless families and individuals actually costs less than shelter and other emergency care. The cost of sheltering a homeless family in the New York City Shelter system is $36,000 per year and for a homeless individual is $23,000 per year, compared to a supportive housing apartment with services which costs as little as $12,000 per year, and the cost of rental assistance with support…...
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Andrews, William. The New York Police Department. "The Early Years: The Challenge of Public Order:1845 to1870; an Era of Corruption and Reform: 1870 to 1900." http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/nypd/html/3100/retro.html
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New York City Department of City Planning. June 20, 2003. http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dcp/html/census/pop2000.html
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homelessness in America, especially looking at children and families who are homeless. Homelessness has always been an issue in America, but today, there are even more homeless people in the country because of the economic crisis. People have lost their jobs and their homes, and have nowhere to go but the streets. Homelessness used to be viewed as an often solitary issue, but today, many families with children are homeless, and that leads to a dim view of the future for these families.
First, it is important to define homelessness. Two authors write, "It is usually accepted that those who sleep in public places or squat in derelict buildings are homeless" (Chamberlain, and Johnson 35). However, there are many other ways to define homelessness. Families living temporarily in shelters are homeless, and so are people who are hospitalized or institutionalized that have nowhere to go on their release. So are…...
mlaReferences
Chamberlain, Chris, and Guy Johnson. "The Debate about Homelessness." Australian Journal of Social Issues 36.1 (2001): 35.
Latham, Buffalo. "The Art of Homelessness." The Humanist Jan.-Feb. 2002: 20+.
Nunez, Ralph Da Costa, and Laura M. Caruso. "Are Shelters the Answer to Family Homelessness?" USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) Jan. 2003: 46+.
homelessness an issue that involves the general public of the United States instead of the (relatively) few victims who suffer from this condition. Nearly all of these factors have to do with the notion of the sociological imagination, a concept that was innovated by Charles right Mills and which essentially enables people to look beyond their a particular person's fault to understand how the larger society may have contributed to that person's circumstances (Carl, p.6). From the angle of sociological imagination, then, homelessness is a public issue and not a private one for all of the homeless people because there are several systematic factors that are responsible for people being too poor and for housing being not affordable or not in great enough demand to account for the number of people who need it.
One of the major structural issues that is responsible for these factors and for homelessness is…...
mlaWorks Cited
Carl, John. Think Sociology 2011. Pearson: New Jersey. 2011. Print.
Homeless affects a community in a number of ways, including social, economic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Socially, there is a stigma associated with homelessness that implies the person is mentally ill, a drug addict, or an alcoholic. While a number of the homeless population do fall into one of these categories, there are other reasons for homelessness. It is also hard on the economy, because these people don't contribute financially to society. There is a cost to feeding them and allowing them shelter, and that cost can be a lot for a community to handle. Homeless people struggle in interpersonal and....
1. The impact of poverty on education: exploring government assistance programs and private initiatives aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty through education.
2. The prevalence of mental health issues in society: analyzing the benefits of government-funded mental health programs and the role of private organizations in providing support and resources to individuals in need.
3. The challenges faced by homeless individuals: examining the assistance offered by government agencies and non-profit organizations in providing shelter, food, and healthcare to homeless populations.
4. The issue of food insecurity: investigating government assistance programs such as SNAP and WIC, as well as the role of food....
1. The Intersection of Human Trafficking and Homelessness: Understanding the Link
2. A Hidden Crisis: The Connection Between Human Trafficking and Homelessness
3. Breaking the Cycle: Addressing Human Trafficking and Homelessness
4. Human Trafficking: A Contributing Factor to Homelessness
5. Homeless and Vulnerable: The Dangers of Human Trafficking
6. Human Trafficking and Homelessness: A Call to Action
7. Exploitation and Desperation: The Relationship Between Human Trafficking and Homelessness
8. A Complex Issue: Addressing Human Trafficking and Homelessness
9. Unseen and Unheard: Human Trafficking in Homeless Communities
10. Tackling the Root Causes: Human Trafficking and Homelessness as Social Issues
11. The Overlooked....
1. The impact of mental illness on homelessness
2. Solutions to combatting youth homelessness
3. The connection between poverty and homelessness
4. The role of addiction in contributing to homelessness
5. The effectiveness of government policies in addressing homelessness
6. The challenges faced by homeless families
7. The stigma and stereotypes associated with homelessness
8. The importance of affordable housing in ending homelessness
9. The role of community organizations in supporting the homeless population
10. The long-term effects of homelessness on an individual's physical and mental health.
11. The impact of systemic racism on the rate of homelessness among minority populations
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