Sentences with phrase «dealing with homelessness»

She also has experience dealing with homelessness reviews and appeals, ASB injunctions and housing disrepair cases.
Hailed as a revolutionary approach to dealing with homelessness, Opportunity Village Eugene is a one - acre lot with 25 tiny homes ranging from 60 to 75 square feet.
A hike in the Presidio through a Crissy Field Center program or a campfire opens up experiences that are important for all youth — but may not be accessible for youth dealing with homelessness.
All my books are comedies, but they have a darker subtext, and this one, dealing with homelessness here in San Luis Obispo, CA ---LSB-...]
In his State of the State address, Cuomo effectively neutered de Blasio in dealing with homelessness by placing New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer in charge of oversight of shelters.
He didn't offer any deep level of detail, but his mentions of dealing with homelessness, improving schools, creating housing and fostering job growth were well - received.
Just thinking about others having to deal with homelessness has been very eye - opening and makes me want to sleep out again next year.
Porter told reporters that he was angry about Labour failing to speak up for poor people or deal with homelessness.
At the same time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has unveiled his own initiatives to deal with homelessness after his staff said that the mayor could not manage the problem.
He also said de Blasio's policy only deals with the homelessness problem in the short term, and he accused the mayor of not pursuing more permanent options, including affordable housing vouchers for families.
«The best way to deal with homelessness to provide someone with a home,» she said.
She's dealt with homelessness, abuse, and ADHD — and attends a school with one of the highest dropout rates in New Hampshire.
«I have children in my classroom who have witnessed not one, not two, but three and four homicides, deal with homelessness, deal with molestation, deal with bullying, deal with being relocated from one place to another, parents just trying to figure out how to survive,» she said.

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The author, a Japanese Christian, tells how a Taiwanese Christian helped him to deal with the spiritual homelessness that he experienced by going to live in other cultures.
There is growing awareness that neither private nor public charity is sufficient in dealing with poverty, joblessness and homelessness.
In the meantime, our new leader is proposing to deal with the unprecedented problems of the city, child - care, education, homelessness, and the environment without raising taxes.
Most are dealing with challenges including homelessness, addictions, mental illness.
In the story of religion there is so strong a theme of restlessness or homelessness that it is impossible to avoid the suggestion that we are dealing here with adventure in the boldest sense.
Along with another student from Laney College, she is organizing a wellness fair to give students dealing with hardships such as financial difficulties, domestic violence, hunger or homelessness, resources to graduate and find a job following graduation.
We're going to continue to push for dealing with the issues of poverty and homelessness.
De Blasio said dealing with people with a propensity for violence who also have mental health issues is just one component of a larger strategy to address homelessness in the city, the rest of which will be outlined in the fall.
The dispute between the two has affected how the city deals with everything from homelessness and affordable housing to both the Ebola and Legionnaire's Disease health crises.
«I am very disappointed by this ruling, which demonstrates that Manchester City Council is simply trying to move the pressing problem of homelessness out of sight, rather than dealing with the clear need for appropriate accommodation and support services that I saw first - hand when I visited the camp.»
Last year, DHS began using hotels across the city as temporary shelters to deal with a spike in rates of homelessness, with 1,700 families placed in the Ramada Inn in Willowbrook and the Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Comfort Inn in Travis, Matteo said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the homelessness issue in the city stems from de Blasio's inability to understand and deal with the circumstances.
Bratton, once LA's top cop, told «The Cats Roundtable» radio show on AM 970 that while the NYPD can't solve homelessness on its own, the department had «a very ambitious initiative under way,» including training cops on how to deal with mental illness.
«I've been clear that we are going to own the problems of homelessness and be transparent about how serious they are and what we're doing to deal with them,» de Blasio said.
Mayor de Blasio announced a $ 2.6 billion, 15 - year city plan to deal with the city's homelessness problem last week, having failed to formulate a joint plan with the state.
All the risks of homelessness and rent arrears, it deals with it straight away.»
March 28, 2018 • Orange County, Calif., is under federal court order to deal with a worsening homelessness crisis.
The more serious issues these girls face would be difficult to deal with at any age — parental suicide attempts, self - harm, mental illness, homelessness, sexuality, race.
Cussing, profanities and brief rude anatomical humor are used in a script that deals with themes of abandonment, homelessness and unemployment.
The group regularly deals with citizens affected by issues such as substance abuse, unemployment, and homelessness.
are dealing with serious problems (for instance, mental illness, homelessness, child or domestic abuse, incarceration of a parent, etc.) that make school attendance difficult because family life has been disrupted and public agencies and schools lack a coordinated response?
The state has the resources in place to deal with veteran homelessness issues for three months into the future.
Only screwed landlords get put out of pocket, while screwed tenants get put out of their homes and face homelessness, and cost us far more as a society in terms of dealing with the economic and human costs of homelessness.
Women, especially Indigenous women, deal with ongoing systemic racism, poverty, discrimination, homelessness or at risk of being homeless, mental health, addiction, and stereotyping.
These can include higher universal healthcare costs as people deal with the physical and mental health impacts of unresolved legal issues, increased reliance on social assistance, the price of incarceration, decreased workforce participation, and higher rates of homelessness, addiction and other socially - costly impacts.
This approach is not effective to deal with what government faces in the context of «wicked» problems and complex adaptive social systems (think homelessness, hunger, poverty, climate change, family justice).
It was argued unsuccessfully on appeal that the review decision contained a deficiency for the purpose of reg 8 (2) of the the Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/71) because it did not expressly deal with the appellant's contention that her landlord had verbally told her to leave.
For 116,400 Australians, the numbers just don't add up — paying the bills, putting food on the table, covering rent and dealing with unexpected life costs has pushed them into homelessness.
These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6
The book's third and largest section demonstrates creative approaches for helping children deal with a variety of adverse circumstances: homelessness, family problems, sexual abuse, social aggression, natural disasters, and more.
The difference is that CSWs tend to take on clients who are dealing with day - to - day survival challenges, including homelessness, joblessness, hunger, substance abuse, and other community - wide problems.
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