Sentences with phrase «factors for homelessness»

Another potential pathway linking childhood adversity to adult homelessness is the likelihood that such adversity elevates individuals» risk for psychiatric disorders such as depression and substance abuse, which are risk factors for homelessness, by reducing one's ability to earn adequate income and maintain stable housing.

And sometimes their sexual identity makes them feel disconnected, which can lead to other contributing factors for homelessness, such as drug abuse, depression, family conflict or chronic absence from school.

Not exact matches

ECPC provides parenting education groups and counseling to the residents and training for staff at homeless and domestic violence shelters to counteract serious risk factors including homelessness, poverty, youth or emancipation from the child welfare system.

«To fight it, we must keep our focus on the socioeconomic factors that have allowed it to continue for all of these years ---- poverty, homelessness, and a lack of access to healthcare.»

At its core, NCLB faults schools and curriculum for student failure, but critics claim that other factors are also to blame, including: class size, old and damaged school buildings, hunger and homelessness, and lack of health care.

Contributing factors to pet euthanasia rates at overcrowded U.S. shelters include irresponsible breeding, pets not being spayed or neutered, pet homelessness, and surrendering because a person can no longer afford to care for a pet.

The factor most strongly predictive of homelessness for veterans was social isolation, specifically low levels of support during the first year after discharge and being unmarried.

In addition, the trial judge should have considered a whole range of factors such as age, the difference in age between the girls and the accused, the impact of the girls» addiction, their need for shelter, and their past and ongoing experiences with homelessness and prostitution.

The issue of disempowerment, with its roots in colonisation, is identifies as a major factor in family violence, which is one of the main reasons for the cycle of homelessness among Indigenous women and their children.

Strengthen Fragile Families by reaching out to those coping with homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse and domestic violence — some of the strongest risk factors for child abuse and neglect.

However, our results linking early - learning problems to homelessness, mental illness and substance use are consistent with a growing body of research indicating that adverse childhood events are potent risk factors for a number of psychiatric and substance use disorders.6

«Fathers» Risk Factors and Their Implications for Healthy Relationships and Father Involvement,» Fragile Families Research Brief 37 (2007): 1 — 3; «Predictors of Homelessness and Doubling - Up among At - Risk Families,» Fragile Families Research Brief 43 (2008): 1 — 3.

At the same time, the highest risk factor for youth homelessness is the lack of a high school diploma or GED.

Exploring socio - demographics, mobility, and living arrangement as risk factors for academic performance among children experiencing homelessness.