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tpoliver

The Shockingly Simple, Surprisingly Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness | Mother Jones - 2 views

www.motherjones.com/...-solution-to-homelessness-utah

personal freedoms homeless solutions

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  • tpoliver on 05 Dec 16
     
    Homelessness seems to be a never ending problem in the United States and there does not seem to be a solution. Some states like Utah are working towards finding a solution and helping the homeless in their state. They have a program in effect called Housing First that finds and build apartments at no cost to the homeless individual. They also work on helping them get the medical care and provisions needed to help them until they can survive on their own even if it takes some time.
  • duyen_vu on 05 Sep 17
     
    The homeless is always the problem of US, I can see there are many homeless on the way i go to school. This is an very nice topic to discuss, I love to know more about his topic. Thus, I can give a helping hand for who in need.
kevia18

Fact Sheet: Veteran Homelessness - 0 views

www.endhomelessness.org/...act-sheet-veteran-homelessness

homeless+veterns homeless+us homelessness

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  • kevia18 on 05 Sep 16
     
    This website is a fact sheet that provides statistics of the amount of homeless veterans in the US as of 2015.
  • mat2046668 on 05 Sep 16
     
    This issue really angers me. We send our troops off to war or to serve our country, so that we can ultimately turn our backs on them when they acclimate to civilian life. The ramifications of what they endure is life-altering and they need assistance adjusting to normalcy. Mental illness is very prevalent afterwards and if anyone deserves compassion, it is our troops.
lynnmarie17

The Effect of COVID-19 on Homelessness - 1 views

unitedwaynca.org/...effect-pandemic-homeless-us

Pandemic COVID-19 crisis homelessness

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  • lynnmarie17 on 08 Sep 21
     
    Many people have become homeless due to the pandemic. Landlords are raising the rent in this time of crisis and people aren't able to afford to live anymore. Unemployment rates have also gone through the roof
  • azychandler1998 on 09 Sep 21
     
    This was a good, but very sad read. I cant imagine having to be evicted out of my home due to being out of work for something like the pandemic. Something completely out of your control. I know that Arizona temporarily put a notice during the lockdown that those who couldn't pay rent were not allowed to be evicted (I was one of them) but it didn't last long enough. Like the article states, COVID19 has long term affects not short ones meaning more time to recover from its effects are needed.
sar2171619

The Graying of America's Homeless - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ess-old-and-on-the-street.html

homeless America poverty personal+freedoms

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  • sar2171619 on 04 Sep 17
     
    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.
rya2198591

Homelessness in Phoenix Information - 1 views

www.phoenix.gov/...homelesshelp

personal + freedoms Homelessness Phoenix Shelters

shared by rya2198591 on 31 Aug 21 - No Cached
  • rya2198591 on 31 Aug 21
     
    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.
carlizagami

Homelessness in Hawaii grows - 0 views

www.foxnews.com/...ws-defying-image-paradise.html

personal+freedoms homeless healthcare

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  • carlizagami on 06 Feb 16
     
    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.
smurphy6600

How Trauma Affects Kids in School - Child Mind Institute - 1 views

childmind.org/...how-trauma-affects-kids-school

personal+freedoms education+trauma education+behavioral+therapy social+education neglect+children+education

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  • children experience trauma through ongoing exposure, throughout their early development, to abuse, neglect, homelessness, domestic violence or violence in their communities
  • children experience trauma through ongoing exposure, throughout their early development, to abuse, neglect, homelessness, domestic violence or violence in their communities
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      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      what is trauma for children
  • “They are masters at making sure you do not see them bleed.”
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      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
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  • symptoms can mimic other problems, including ADHD and other behavior disorders.
  • Trouble forming relationships with teachers Poor self-regulation Negative thinking Hypervigilance Executive function challenges
  • They’ve learned to be wary of adults, even those who appear to be reliable, since they’ve been ignored or betrayed by those they have depended on.
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      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      How can a child succeed in a school setting when they don't know how to ask for help when they really need it? Their trauma sets them up for failure because they have to be so self reliant at home
  • One of the challenges in giving that support is that when kids misbehave, our schools often use disciplinary systems that involve withdrawing attention and support, rather than addressing their problems
    • smurphy6600
      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      this re-enforces their idea of being alone doesn't it?
  • They need coaching and practice at de-escalating when they feel overwhelmed
  • they develop the belief that they’re bad, and what’s happened to them is their fault
  • “hostile attribution bias” — the idea that everyone is out to get them
  • They see negative where we see neutral
  • One of the classic symptoms of trauma is hyper-vigilance
  • This can look like hyperactivity
  • hronic trauma affects children’s memory, their ability to pay attention, plan, think things through, and other executive functions. Kids who have ADHD as well as trauma may be especially impaired in these skills.
  • Kids who have experienced chronic neglect tend to be better at getting attention by provoking the adults they depend on than by complying with expectations.
  • smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
     
    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.
Mitchell Dietz

You Don't Need a Home to Vote - 0 views

www.nationalhomeless.org/...vote

personal+freedoms voting homeless America presidency government addresses

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  • Mitchell Dietz on 02 Sep 13
     
    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.
jas2208915

Family and social aspects of substance use disorders and treatment - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC4158844

substance abuse SUDS personal+freedoms

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  • jas2208915 on 02 Feb 21
     
    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.
cla2175938

Bunker possibly used In Child Sex Trafficking - 1 views

patch.com/...bly-used-child-sex-trafficking

Child+Trafficking personal+freedom missing+children

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  • cla2175938 on 04 Sep 18
     
    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.
Damon Frank

Prison Pet Partnership - 0 views

www.prisonpetpartnership.org

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  • Damon Frank on 08 Jun 13
     
    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.
kat2222004

Cost OF Note Caring:Nowhere To Go - 1 views

www.usatoday.com/...7746535

personal+freedoms mental+health health

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  • gab2134589 on 05 Sep 16
     
    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
  • kat2222004 on 26 Jan 17
     
    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
smurphy6600

Health Net lawsuit reveals the financial engine of drug rehab industry - 0 views

www.azcentral.com/...907734001

personal+freedoms healthcare narcotics social+healthcare opioid+crisis

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  • The only "Obamacare" health insurer in metro Phoenix and Pima County is ensnared in a legal dispute with several addiction treatment centers over the cost of care amid an Arizona opioid epidemic that is taking an average of two lives each day. 
  • Maricopa County Superior Court lawsuit
  • widespread fraud among Arizona and California drug rehab centers in 2015 and 2016, when it alleges"teams of brokers" recruited out-of-state clients to fraudulently obtain insurance policies and to seek treatment in Arizona.
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  •  residential “sober homes”
  • headaches for local government officials as they try to determine how to manage the unregulated industry.
  • Prescott, which once claimed more than 100 sober homes, has adopted regulations to provide more oversight of them.
  • Federal and state prosecutors have aggressively pursued cases in Florida and California in connection with fraudulent activities such as patient brokering.
  • There have been no criminal cases filed in Arizona, however. 
  • Six of the rehab facilities that accuse Health Net of improperly withholding payments are in Prescott: Chapter 5 Counseling, Prescott House, Compass Recovery Center, Clean Adventures of Sober Living, Decision Point Center and Carleton Recovery Centers.
  • Three others, T R U Recovery Solutions, North Ridge Counseling and Desert Cove Recovery, list Scottsdale addresses. 
  • The rehab facilities allege that Health Net improperly withheld payments to virtually every rehab center in Arizona and southern California beginning in January 2016. Health Net halted the payments as part of an investigative audit that demanded each center provide detailed records such as proof of patients' residency and assurances that patients did not receive incentives to sign up for rehab. 
  • Health Net said in court documents that claims filed by rehab centers in Arizona soared because of widespread fraud
  • Health Net's PPO plans paid $2.4 million to all Arizona rehab centers in 2014. Those payments soared to $47.4 million in 2015
  • Those plans paid more for rehab care that year than all other types of care in Arizona, including typically expensive medical care such as cancer, heart disease and child births, according to the insurer’s counterclaim.
  • Here’s how the fraud worked, the insurer said in its counterclaim:Brokers would scout out people in 12-step programs, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, homeless shelters and jails, then refer these clients to the “highest-bidding clinic.”Clinics that were not part of the insurer’s network paid clients’ insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs such as deductibles and co-payments.The result was that people secured Health Net coverage “arranged and bought for them by financially-interested providers for one purpose only: to obtain coverage for the limited time needed to rack up millions of dollars in substance abuse treatment.” Some clinics misrepresented the home addresses of patients, many of whom lived out of state. 
  • “a sophisticated fraud involving the fraudulent enrollment of non-Arizona residents,” who signed up for Arizona insurance policies. 
  • misrepresenting their home address
  • Clean Adventures staff member told him to list the rehab facility's address on his insurance application.
  • put him in contact with an insurance agent who suggested using Clean Adventures' address on his insurance application
  • The insurer named 10 other examples of people who lived in California, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee and Wisconsin but represented that they lived in Prescott or Scottsdale.
  • The insurer also said the rehab centers engaged in fraudulent billing, charging for services that were not medically necessary or in amounts that exceeded what the plan allowed.
  • A 2008 law called the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act requires insurance plans to provide equitable coverage for substance abuse and addiction treatment. The Affordable Care Act also requires health insurance plans cover essential health benefits, including behavioral health services, and it forbids insurers from denying coverage to individuals based on existing medical conditions. 
  • The unintended consequence was (some) addiction treatments centers began taking advantage of that and over-billing," said Angie Geren, executive director of Addiction Haven, a grassroots and advocacy organization focusing on addiction issues. 
  • House Bill 2333
  • curb the practice of paying referral fees to brokers who steer patients to rehab centers.
  • bill never made it out of committee.
  • Florida
  • "The scam starts with deceptive advertising at the beginning," Aronberg said. "You are lured down to sunny Florida with a free plane ticket, which is illegal. You are given illegal benefits to keep you there."
  • patients often find themselves booted from treatment when their insurance benefits run out.
  • incentive for people to relapse so they can obtain another round of coverage.
  • Sober Home Task Force targeting the practice of buying and selling patients battling addiction
  • Johnson said rehab centers that provide legitimate services are being harmed as insurance companies scrutinize payments and bad actors poach patients away. 
  • ken.alltucker@arizonarepublic.com
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