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Social Justice and the Homeless Population

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Social Justice and the Homeless Population

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  1. Social Justice and the Homeless Population By Mindy Valenti

  2. Background • Homeless: An individual who lacks housing including an individual whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations, and an individual who is a resident in transitional housing. • Effects a wide variety of demographics. Families with children are the fastest growing homeless population (Rabiner& Weiner, 2012). • 2.3 to 3.5 million individuals in the United States alone face homelessness annually (Cronley, 2010). • Cause of homelessness • Structure problems vs individual problems

  3. Tent City USA • Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J0vps63twU • Full documentary (if interested in watching): http://www.hulu.com/watch/555563

  4. Tent City USA • Since of community and hope. • Homeless to flight homelessness. • Problems with the current system: • Lack of community support. • Missions. • Commission boards providing poor advancement. • Temporary or respite housing.

  5. Mark Horvath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0DYgHY21FY

  6. Mark Horvath • Social media. • Single actions and one person can make a difference. • Stigma vs reality • A single set back can result in homelessness.

  7. Housing • A right vs individual responsibility • McKinney Act of 1987 • Housing problems • Inadequate affordable and temporary housing • Missions can be dehumanizing

  8. Health Care • 57% of homeless individuals in the United States lack health insurance (Hwang et al., 2010). • Medicare • High rates of acute and chronic disease • Reasons for not seeking health care: • Competing priorities • Transportation • Feeling stigmatized • Discontinuity of care • Education • Poor diet

  9. What can be done • Teaching • Increase job placement programs and respite housing • Food stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) • SSI/SSDI Outreach Access and Recovery (SOAR) • Increasing preventative care access • Patient navigators

  10. References Cronley, C. (2010). Unraveling the Social Construction of Homelessness. Journal Of Human Behavior In The Social Environment, 20(2), 319-333. General Information. (n.d.). National Health Care for the Homeless Council. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from http://www.nhchc.org/resources/general-information/ Horvath, M. (2012, July 27). Mark Horvath at TEDxSkidRow. YouTube. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0DYgHY21FY Hwang, S., Ueng, J., Chiu, S., Kiss, A., Tolomiczenko, G., Cowan, L., & ... Redelmeier, D. (2010). Universal health insurance and health care access for homeless persons. American Journal Of Public Health, 100(8), 1454-1461. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.182022 National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty - Housing Rights Overview. (n.d.). National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty - Housing Rights Overview. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from http://www.nlchp.org/housing Rabiner, M., & Weiner, A. (2012). Health Care for Homeless and Unstably Housed: Overcoming Barriers. Mount Sinai Journal Of Medicine, 79(5), 586-592. doi:10.1002/msj.21339 Tent City U.S.A. - Trailer - OWN Documentary Club - Oprah Winfrey Network. (2012, September 17). YouTube. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J0vps63twU

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