...who lives in Paris, had the vision to build an organization that focus on helping people in need in a one-on-one daily basis. He named the organization as St. Vincent de Paul Society. Members of the Society were proud to call themselves as "Vincentians", in tribute to St. Vincent de Paul. Vincentians have the desire to help and serve the poor and in needs. They provide food, transportation and shelter, visit shut-ins, purchase personal care items, clothing and furniture, and assist in many other ways to help establish a better community. Later on, another St. Vincent de Paul Society was founded in San Francisco in 1860. The purpose of the Society is to help and support the neediest members of the community to become as independent as possible. The Society helps over 1,000 people in San Francisco every day, who are suffering from poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, and domestic violence. Social Justice Like the moment it was founded, the vision of St. Vincent de Paul Society hasn’t change at all, “to embrace the world in a network of charity.” The Society has set two goals to accomplish its vision: “to do a great deal of spiritual good to its members through the exercise of charity, and to do a little spiritual and temporal good to a few poor families in the name of Jesus Christ.” The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is composed of women and men who love to serve and help others as they seek spiritual holiness to fulfill their live. All members of the Society are...
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...In the United States today, there are approximately 640,000 homeless people. When it comes to the topic of homelessness, there are so many differing opinions. Some people believe the homeless are a burden and that they should all be killed, while others believe that it is our God given duty to help these people and do all we can for them. Then there are some who could care less. Personally, I believe in service, so we should obviously help them all, but only to a certain extent. This is my belief because we shouldn’t have to waste all of our own hard earned money on them, but we should still help. The three ways we could all do in order to really help decrease the number of homeless people living in the streets would be to change society’s attitude about them, give to them, and push for change. If we all do these three things, we can really make a change. To begin, changing one’s attitude regarding homeless people is a huge step. An attitude is important in any setting. School, work, home, one’s attitude means everything. When someone has a bad attitude, he or she generally treat everyone else worse and thus, don’t work as hard. With a good positive attitude, people are usually much more generous, caring, and determined. When it comes to changing ones attitude, start with one’s self, then begin to help society change their attitude about homeless people. In the world today, people have catagorized homeless people as lazy, violent, crazy, addicted criminals who choose homelessness...
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...Elite Homeless Shelter, a non-profit organization. Here at Charms Elite Homeless Shelter we understand that your term is almost up, but we strongly urge you to think about our adjure. Nobody knows exactly how many homeless people there are altogether. Estimation varies widely because the population is constantly changing with people becoming homeless and homeless people finding shelter. Although we are unaware of the exact population we do know some statistics about our homeless. About 1.5 million of these children may experience acute and chronic health problems. These children have four times as many respiratory problems, five times more gastrointestinal problems, and four times more likely to have asthma. 41% of these children have families, but 1/3 of these children’s parents can’t get a job because of their living situation. Life on the streets...
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...Homelessness Homelessness is not at big problem in the Faroe Islands. The people, who are homeless in the Faroe Islands, are the people who mostly have got problems with alcohol or other drugs. But they get some money from the country to buy food or something else. And they can sleep in a shelter called “Herbergið”. You don’t often see people sleep on the street here, and if someone sleeps on the street, the police will bring them to the police station so they can sleep there for a night, or they drive them home to where they live. In some countries, homelessness is a huge problem. There are too many people who are homeless, and sadly we can’t help them all. There are some places where the homeless people can go and get something to eat and a bet to sleep in for a night. But because there are so many people who are homeless, there isn’t enough room for them all, so some of them just have to sleep outside. It’s not easy to be homeless. When you are homeless your life is in danger every minute, especially at night. You sometimes have to sleep outside, and there are some people how are so desperate that they will hurt you just to get your money to buy drugs for or something else. There are many reasons why some people are homeless. Some are homeless because they are addicted to drugs or are alcoholic. They are so addicted that they can’t work. While some other people lose their job and can’t find another job. Some people send their children out to beg for money so they can use...
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...When i’m riding in a car or walking down the street and spot a homeless man or woman, I begin to have mixed thoughts. Part of me wants to know how they ended up there.The other part of me wants to help. It pains me because sometimes I feel that I am too young to help. In school, teachers are hard on students, tellings us to stay in school or else we will end up on the street. But dropping out of school isn't the only reason people become homeless. Family and relationship problems, drug or alcohol abuse and even eviction can cause homelessness. Homelessness can result to mental illness, hunger and loneliness. Homelessness is a serious problem all communities all over the world need to address. Homelessness affects a person’s health...
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...increasing number of people do not have a fixed home to live; we call this situation homelessness. Many Chinese are poor, stuck in low paying jobs, or are unable to afford a home. Every homeless person has his or her own reason why they living outside the home. There are three basic types of homelessness. The first one is Temporary, it occurs when individuals have been displaced from their homes for a time but do not stay homeless for long. This could be because of some type of damage to their home such as a fire or natural disaster. Circumstantial is the second type it occurs when a person's circumstances change and he loses his place of residence. They might have lost a job or had to spend some time...
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...Homeless in Prince William County Introduction and background: Homelessness is one of our nation’s most misunderstood and vexing social problems. Many individuals of all races struggle with the devastating effects of homeless including families with children, single adults, teenagers and the elderly. This is an issue that can be defined as living in unsuitable, unsafe and overcrowded environment. “On a single night in January 2013, there were 610,042 people experiencing homelessness in the United States, including 394,698 people who were homeless in sheltered locations and 215,344 people who were living in unsheltered locations” (Henry & Cortes, 2013). This shows homelessness in American is a crisis, many more individuals become homeless everyday. They struggle moving from place to place, night after night, in constant state of fear and survival. People become homeless for a variety of reasons. Homelessness is primarily an economic problem, and is also affected by a number of political and social factors. Economic factors include the lack of affordable housing, “housing costs have risen steadily across the country, and they have skyrocketed in many areas. Further, the inability to afford housing is concentrated among households with incomes below the poverty level, whose members account for the vast majority of people entering homelessness” (Burt, 2001). The growing gap between wage earnings and the cost of housing leaves millions of families and individuals unable...
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...Soto-Schwantz 5 October 2015 Help for Homeless Veterans It should be obvious by now that our homeless veterans are not being served well at all. If the homeless veterans were properly cared for by our country, the total homeless population would fall by more than 40 percent over night. Homeless services would then have sufficient funding to move many of the rest of the homeless off the streets into transitional housing with services that bring them back into the working population. It would be a dream come true. If only our country would step up to the plate, homelessness in our country would be virtually eliminated. If only…. Lets Summarize the Homeless Veteran Situation. 750,000 total homeless count in U.S 400,000 veterans are homeless at some time in a year 200,000 veterans homeless in any one night 27% of our male U.S. population are veterans but 43% of all homeless males are veterans – why? 7688 beds funded by the VA for homeless veterans 192,312 sleeping elsewhere – shelters, grates, creek beds, back alleys. We have Heroes sleeping on sidewalks in every big city. The VA says homelessness is not related to military service, but Veterans are twice as likely to be homeless than civilians. We may think that homeless veterans served poorly in military, but: 95% of homeless vets have honorable discharges. The VA claims it has the largest network of homeless assistance programs in the country, but: Total VA funding is only $1.37 per homeless vet per day.VA funded beds...
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...project consisted of me working with the homeless community. I was a case manager at a family shelter in framingham, and we had a woman named Laurie Laba sponsor the shelter. I later began to help assist Laurie in her community work with the homeless. Laurie and I are both very civically engaged with the homeless community in many ways. Laurie’s husband, Neale, is a music producer. Her produces folk music and they hold concerts at their house in Sudbury, Ma. Typically three or two months prior to the concert Laurie and I type up a detailed flyer regarding information about the concert. On the left side of the flyer is a section that is named homeless community. Underneath that section we give a brief description about the family shelter is framingham and list what the needs are for the house. We don't just come up with a random list of what we think the shelter might need. Prior to making the flyer we call or sometimes show up in person and speak with the program supervisor about what are the most important things that the families living in the shelter and the shelter itself is in need for. Depending on the season, we would typically be told that the shelter is in need of winter, or summer clothes. We would get a lot of toiletries request, such as paper towels, toilet papers, and cleaning supplies. The children living in the shelter vary from newborn to 17 years old, so we often like to get a list of the children's sizes, and favorite colors, so we could come up with good donations...
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...they are homeless. At the time, I did not even understand that homelessness can affect children since I had thought only adults were homeless. Looking back, it seems very thoughtless that I only thought adults were affected and my research into this subject led me to see that whole families can be affected by homelessness. Throughout this paper, I plan on talking about the causes of homelessness, the prevalence of homeless, signs that children might be homeless,...
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...homelessness is a problem. One is that homeless people are causing harm to themselves and the environment. The second one is that homeless people are more likely to encounter more problems than those who are not homeless. I agree with this source, because most of the people who are homeless tend to get into negative situations. These situations can be from stealing, doing drugs, breaking and entering, and the worst of them all murdering. With this going around it is difficult for people to try and help the homeless. Yes, do not get me wrong there are those that do nothing but help; but for some it just...
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...day the numbers grow. There are many reasons for people becoming homeless. Alcohol and drug addiction is one of the main reasons of homelessness. Phychosis and depression are the second highest reason, and serious mental disorders are the third highest reason. Researchers have over 29 studies that have included over 5684 homeless individuals. Every day we are coming up with new answers to why people are becoming homeless and we are constantly working on ways to keep everyone off of the streets. The homeless are a group of people that have poorer physical and mental health than the general population. There are over 1 million homeless worldwide. According to the Prevalence of Mental Health Disorders among the homeless: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis published December 02, 2008 DOI 10.1371/Journal.pmed.005225 the main causes of homelessness are the following: * Drug and alcohol misuse * Lack of social support * Family support * Family breakdown and disputes * Institutional backgrounds (prison) * Armed services * Mental disorders In today’s society the homeless are looked down upon. No One wants to ask questions but just assume. I think that everyone should be treated the same and not judged by how they look or the clothes that they wear. I think that each homeless person should be addressed differently but treated with the same respect. If a homeless person is on alcohol and drugs then they should be referred to AA...
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...Kenneth Pike SOC/120 March 28, 2011 Onesphor Kyara Poverty and Children in the United States The children of the United States should not have to worry about where their next meal is going to come from or worried if they will have a nice warm bed to sleep in for the night. There are so many children that are born into the United States that do not ask to have to live in poverty each and every day. There are many of us that have been at a stop light and seen the people that are wearing the dirty torn clothes asking for help because they are hungry and have no money. Most of these people are homeless or live in poverty. There are many factors to why we as a nation have so many children that are living in poverty and it needs to change, as these children are our future and will carry on the legacy of the United States. The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but it is considered the second behind Mexico in the amount of children that live in poverty. This is very alarming to read or hear that our children of the next generation are living in today’s society homeless and starving, because there family is taking money away from one bill to pay the other bill. In 2009 the number of people that are living in poverty was the largest in 51 years. The poverty rate and the number in poverty increased across all types of families: married-couple families (5.8 percent and 3.4 million in 2009 from 5.5 percent and 3.3 million in 2008);...
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...Homeless Volunteer Tera Penrod Purpose: To share my experience of being homeless and how it has affected me. Audience: Readers interested in being enlightened about the homeless at a personal level. “Better is a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse.”- PROVERBS 28:6. I learned the truth in this verse while living with relatives in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the time I became homeless. What comes to mind when thinking about homeless people? I remember the first time I saw a homeless person begging at an intersection. He looked scruffy, unkempt, and dirty, which really scared me because I did not know what he would do to me. He just stood there, holding a sign that read, “Out of work, need money for food.” Of course I just drove by, with windows up and doors locked, figuring that if he lost his job then he should be trying to get a new one instead of begging. I really didn’t care about homeless people and refused to help them. Little did I know that one day I’d become homeless. I have bounced back and forth from living in Michigan and Colorado for several years and after my divorce in 2006, I finally headed back to Colorado (home). I initially stayed with some relatives until I could get a job and save enough for an apartment, was doing just that until one weekend camping in the mountains, in which I was raped by my cousin, with whose parents I was residing. I didn’t know what to say or do because no one would ever believe...
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...I would say that this active citizenship was a really good experience because I had the opportunity to help people in need; for example, homeless. Even though I did not work directly with them, I volunteer in an event organized to collect money for them. At first I was kind of scared because this was my first volunteering in the United States; however, it was really fun. I got to the event, which was a festival, and my friend and I started looking for the HEP spot. They had a truck where they were providing beers and wine for $5.00. My job there was to take care of the drinks, brings them from the truck to the counter. Also, when there was a lot of people buying drinks, I had to be in the counter selling the drinks and passing them. Actually,...
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