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This article talks about homelessness in a America and how bad it's been getting throughout the years. It explains how the majority of the people on the streets are around the age of fifty.

Helping the homeless is very imperative. This article gives a few examples how we can help the homeless. A small deed goes a long way when it comes to these individuals.

This article is an informational article on the state of homelessness in Phoenix, Arizona. It also provides information on the efforts the city of phoenix has taken to abating this social issue. The City is funding non-profits to build more shelters with beds that the homeless can use.

I stongly believe that everyone should have a place to call home. Sometimes people are hit with hard times but I don't think that they should be mistreated.

As a homeless mom, Karen Penley likely hasn't had it too easy. Now she says a big obstacle is preventing her from fulfilling her baby's most basic needs. The Hawaii mom prefers breastfeeding to keep her child nourished, but that may not be an option at her shelter.

Two days before the city planned to dismantle her sidewalk home, Kionina Kaneso had no idea where she and her daughter and grandchildren would sleep.

In this report it talks about foster kids and what happens to them after they turn 18. While some states, a small handful, have programs for the kids others do not. It spoke about kids turning 18 then getting dropped off at homeless shelters. I hope in the near future there will be a change for these kids. They crime rate, young parent rate and homeless rates are just not acceptable. Please read and see how you can help in you community.

There was a group home next door to my home for years. These kids had no support even when they were in the system. They were often locked out of the home when the state workers needed to go somewhere. My family and I ended up being family for many of these children. One afternoon, Charles who lived in the group home, rang our doorbell. I came out and he was yellow and falling over. I asked him where are the workers. He let me know they had locked them out again. I put him in my car and rushed him to the hospital. I knew it was bad when the emergency room nurses took him immediately. The staff at the group home had been giving him the wrong medication and he lost most of his liver. Charles calls me mom. His children call me Grandma. A lot of the kids that were living in the home, call me mom. I refer to them as one of my kids. The best way to take care of these children is to invite them into your heart, lives and family before and after they turn 18. Demonstrate the way to success by showing them love.

This is a website arguing that homeless people should have the right to vote. Just because they have no permeant address to register with, doesn't mean that they can't vote just like every other US citizen. The current system is taking away their personal freedom to vote.

This article speaks on the rising number of poverty in the USA. It goes on to explain who it is affecting as far as gender and race.

This article describes the burdens drug addicts face day to day. It also describes how drug addictions cause addicts to have higher rate in suicides, homelessness, criminal behaviors, and incarceration.

Caroline Miller explains the effects of trauma in children presents itself in the class room. The various ways in which a child might have socialization issues as well as difficulty asking for help from adults in a school setting after the neglect and abuse they are facing at home. The website also offers alternative teaching styles teachers could use in the classroom to help students facing trauma at home begin to from attachment styles in healthy ways.

Prison Pet Partnership is a program at a women's prison set up to help people with disabilities. It uses animals that are rescued to help rehabilitate female inmates through vocational learning. The program teaches women inmates how to groom the homeless animals in order prepare them to be placed as service animals for disabled people. The program helps the inmates learn new skills, the animals find homes, and the disabled population.

This article is about how deinstitutionalization has lead to people with mental illness being treated by the jail system or being homeless on the streets.

Many veterans have been left without any benefits after leaving the service, some have even become homeless. The veterans bill would help those who have been struggling with suicide, depression, education, and medical benefits. There are 9 laws that are being passed to help those who have served in the military.

This websites discusses a broad range of topics that are considered social injustices. Topics like homeless youth are discussed. there are articles, newsletters, and forums from today's world to see the latest discussions. It also allows you to submit stories for review.

This site displayed twelve different social justice topics. Most of them were based off of family relations, but also included topics such as homelessness. These are the top twelve issues that social workers feel hold importance in correcting.

America's mental health is becoming an epidemic, yet funding for mental health is at an all time low. States are cutting funding for mental healthcare, in order to save money, yet when they do this they do not understand the repercussions. Many of the mentally ill often end up on the streets, jail or dead. When mental health is not treated we end up with many tragic events such as the 2012 Auroa shooting

This article talks about the effects of mental illness on the people suffering with it as well as families. It talks about how budget cuts mean less care for the sick and how that directly leads to more mentally ill people homeless, in jail, and dead. It also talks about how much money untreated mental health costs the US

Veterans scour area looking for homeless veterans in need of help. Veterans come across a underground bunker with items that are used for small children. They highly suspect the bunker was being used as a underground cell to hold children that are sold or kidnapped.

This article explains some of the difficulties after serving a prison sentence. Up to 70% of those released find themselves jobless after the first year. People who have served a long sentence are released into an unknown world expected to function with society.

The recent wildfires in California has made people panic & try to get their things together & evacuate as quick as possible, in the midst of the pandemic. It has caused many hardships for people leaving them homeless & helpless, some people have even lost their lives. Dryness & lightening hits have been a major reason for these fires.