Pre-Drafting Questions: Homeless People

Pre-Drafting Questions: Homeless People

Audience

The homelessness study is directed to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Labor programs, American Job Centers, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Interagency Council on Homelessness.

Purpose

The purpose of the study response is to assist in identifying stressors of homelessness within the HHS clients, support eligible, homeless families and persons receive quality health and social services, and to empower partnership between community-based and state-managed housing institutions in deducing a solution to minimize homelessness.

Genre

The genre of the research is the Homeless individual.

Problem

Over the years, the U.S. policy-makers have drafted policies to assist in handling the issue of homelessness. Unfortunately, presently the numbers are increasing by the day; thus, creating a lot of concern to the effectiveness of the social, political, and economic status of the country.

Stakeholders

The stakeholders include national government and local government agencies, housing advocates, local housing agencies/providers, community-based mental health institutions, community-managed health care providers, community-managed employment providers, and individually experienced in homelessness (Leavitt).

Ethos:

Connection with the Group

The relationship with the group of stakeholders is based on the element of deducing new strategies of assisting homeless individuals through driving initiatives such as employment opportunities, accommodating housings, and enhancing better healthcare, among others.

Expertise

The expertise identified to relate with the stakeholders includes the norms of activism; for instance, rallying individuals to assist with projects such as constructing shelters to the homeless and assisting in organizing healthcare programs to help the homeless.

Cultural Position

The cultural position applicable to solve the homelessness issue is human capital since it dictates that the availability of resources is the key to enhancing the living standards of a community (Leavitt). Conveying the topic to the general public and reaching out for their assistance is one of the possible actions that can be attained. Also, reaching out to the homeless, assisting them to achieve employment opportunities is an additional possibility.

Key Words

Some of the keywords on the project are homelessness, homeless persons, and discrimination against the homeless, mentally ill homeless individuals, poverty, hunger, human capital, and social capital. These keywords are of great importance since they assist in searching and finding empirical researches that have been done before the launch of the current project. Besides, they create a means of narrowing down the topic by highlighting the significant reasons for homelessness and the age group or population affected the most. Nonetheless, the key words direct the project to some of the possible solutions to homelessness by involving various strategies.

Location and Duration of the Problem

Homelessness is an issue that affects different age groups as well as populations. For example, one of the most common victims of homelessness is veterans. Majorly, the U.S. is known to have established various veteran subsidy programs to assist with their transition to the civil world (Leavitt). Veterans are victims due to their mental status that is often associated with the post-traumatic disorder. When this condition affects the veterans, they are often linked with behaviors such as substance abuse, aggressive behavior, isolation. If they do not receive adequate medical attention, they often become addicts who, in the long run, become homeless (Leavitt). Therefore, it highlights that homelessness among veterans begins after they are released from duty, they find it hard to cope with civilian livelihoods and the ProblemProblem occurs after being diagnosed with PTSD and do not receive quality treatment.

Status of the Problem

Homelessness is an issue for homeless individuals and society as a whole. The primary reason for it being a societal problem is due to insecurity, exposure to diseases, and enhances the standards or become victims of homelessness. Besides, homelessness increases the norms of health issues due to exposure to extreme cold, heat, and lack of adequate sanitation; thus, exposing the victims to preventable health issues and preventable infections. Also, it minimizes property value as well as drives off tourists.

The long and short-term impacts of homelessness are intertwined. There are two effects of homelessness, especially among the people affected. One of the effects is health. Often the homelessness faces various health issues, and with time their health status declines due to lack of proper medical attention and family care. Some of the health issues include skin illness, tuberculosis, sleep deprivation, mortality, and physical and sexual harassment and assault, among others. Next, personal impacts can occur in short or long term standards. Some of the consequences associated with special effects are low self-esteem, institutionalization increases substance abuse and the development of behavioral issues.

Global Perception without Homelessness

Lack of homeless individual depicts a perfect society that has adequate human capital as well as social capital.

Importance of fixing the ProblemProblem

It is essential to end the issue of homelessness since it is a critical factor in improving the lives and well-being of the community. Ending homelessness promotes a safe and secure community; primarily, the homeless population will experience improved mental and physical health. Besides, it will improve the GDP of the city since they will have access to employment, education, and community health services. Having access to homes and accommodation will enhance the health and well-being of the cities. Nonetheless, ending homelessness will improve on the decline of costs, especially on health admission and crisis services.

Homelessness as an Everyday/Event-based Problem

Homelessness is an everyday issue, promoted daily issues such as health issues that include AIDs and significant health issues. On the contrary, if it is an event-based issue, it is associated with substance abuse, weak economic condition, and family break-down.

Questions to Ask

The only questions to ask are why the governmental agencies are so reluctant to assisting the homeless and why policy-makers are withdrawing their concerns about homelessness. Unfortunately, there are different approaches to answering these questions.

Work Cited

Leavitt, Michael O. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Strategic Action Plan on             Homelessness. 25 January 2018. <https://www.hhs.gov/programs/social-            services/homelessness/research/strategic-action-plan-on-homelessness/index.html>.             Accessed on 18 February 2020