Sentences with phrase «homelessness among»

Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness puts the country on a path to end veterans and chronic homelessness as well as to end homelessness among children, family, and youth.

His experience as a REALTOR ® has enabled him to get homeless veterans off the street and prevent homelessness among veterans who face foreclosure and eviction.

Nick cites his real estate background as critical in assisting Veterans facing foreclosure, looking for housing, understanding VA loans, and helping to prevent homelessness among Veterans.

His experience as a REALTOR ® has enabled him to tackle critical issues — getting homeless veterans off the street and preventing homelessness among veterans and their families who face foreclosure and eviction.

Homelessness among families, children, and adolescents: An ecological — developmental perspective

Data from the annual count is used to make decisions about where to spend scarce resources to reduce and prevent homelessness among individuals and families.

There is no question that one of the keys to reducing homelessness among individuals and families is to provide them with housing.

In addition, President Obama's plan to end homelessness among veterans has had success, in part, because of its focus on immediately placing people who are homeless into permanent housing without requiring them to first complete an alcohol or drug treatment program.

Homelessness among unaccompanied youth is most commonly caused by severe family dysfunction, and exacerbated by poverty.

On March 15, Wisconsin HOPE Lab released the results of a national study on hunger and homelessness among community college students.

Beyond Shelter Walls - No More Running in Circles: Discussion Paper By Amanda Dale, YWCA, 2008 Explores links between intimate partner violence, lack of supports leaving shelter and homelessness among women and children.

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.

It aims to reduce homelessness among ex-prisoners, both male and female.

A research project looking at homelessness and affordable housing in the Northwest Territories (NWT) has released a short piece that looks very generally at homelessness among Indigenous people in...

We learned through the studies in our veterans» initiative at the ABA that at least half of the problems that lead to homelessness among veterans are legal problems.

TNR is one of the most humane and effective ways to stop the cycle of homelessness among cats.

The HSVLC advocates the elimination of animal abuse, pet overpopulation and homelessness among companion animals by promoting spaying and neutering of all pets, promoting adoptions, and by providing education and outreach to the community at large.

Failing to spay or neuter your pets directly contributes to overpopulation, the leading cause of homelessness among cats and dogs.

If we are to address the problem of homelessness among our country's dog and cat population, and reduce the horrors that face this population (neglect, roadside abandonment, intentional cruelty, euthanasia), we must include the uncounted, the «invisible,» among them in the discussion.

As part of its ongoing effort to end homelessness among veterans, the VA offers numerous programs and services, including:

«Homelessness among students is more than just a housing problem.

The higher rate of homelessness among vets who reported MST is seen not only in the long term but also immediately after discharge.

«Our work adds to the body of knowledge to identify factors associated with homelessness among Veterans with the ultimate goal of mitigating the risk.

Since the Westchester Patriot Housing Initiative was launched in August of 2013 with the goal of ending homelessness among veterans by the end of 2015, permanent housing has been secured for 329 previously homeless veterans.

At 1:30 p.m. the Committee on Veterans, jointly with the Committee on General Welfare will meet for oversight of the City's efforts to end homelessness among military veterans.

Today's announcement was made during the City's first «Homelessness Among LGBTQ Persons of Color Awareness Breakfast,» sponsored by the Department of Homeless Services, Department of Youth & Community Development held at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

Mayor de Blasio said the city hit a milestone Wednesday toward eradicating homelessness among military veterans — even as NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton took to the airwaves to identify street...

The letter from the 11 county Democratic chairpeople lauds Hein for lowering property taxes, working to end homelessness among military veterans and striving to make Ulster County carbon - neautral.

Assemblyman Charles Barron, of Brooklyn, known for his outspoken ways, got up and began yelling during the governor's speech about the state's failure to obey a 10 year old court order to fully fund schools, and increasing homelessness among other grievances.

Cox's statement noted that the House of Delegates has invested nearly $ 2 million since last year to combat homelessness among veterans and improve educational and workforce training programs.

«We applaud the mayor's extraordinary commitment to — and investment in — supportive housing, the solution to homelessness among our most vulnerable,» said Laura Mascuch, Executive Director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, in a statement.

Major issues during the 2015 legislative session included a budget deficit estimated at $ 200 million, social security tax reform, a structural deficit expected to reach $ 400 million by 2019, education funding, and ending homelessness among the state's veterans.

Federal officials say Long Island has eliminated chronic homelessness among veterans.

Since the Patriot Housing Initiative was launched in August of 2013 with the goal of ending homelessness among veterans by the end of 2015, permanent housing has been secured for over 300 previously homeless veterans.

Another FEMA program, called Direct Lease, could pay for longer - term rentals, which advocates say would be more humane and prevent homelessness among evacuees.

Later Wednesday, de Blasio said the city had earned recognition from the feds for effectively ending chronic homelessness among veterans.

Mayor de Blasio said the city hit a milestone Wednesday toward eradicating homelessness among military veterans — even as NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton took to the airwaves to identify street dwellers as a source of unease about public safety.

Education is needed, change in policies at the local level are needed, the level of homelessness among families with young children needs to decline, but in the meantime there are families who don't have the option (the laudromats near us are pretty clear in this policy as are the daycares, and I had more than one funny look from guests when they saw me putting diapers into the washing machine, I imagine the reaction in shared housing is more difficult to battle.)

Giroux observes that the previous two decades have seen a rise in cases of neglect, abuse, hunger, poverty and homelessness among young people.

Not exact matches

The problem of military personnel struggling in the job market was a tremendous societal burden after combat in Vietnam ended in 1975, and joblessness and homelessness have been epidemic issues among returning veterans every year since.

The three jousted over below - market - rate housing, unequal policing, the city budget, homelessness and jail violence, among other issues.

The NYPD's data - driven approach to tracking homelessness — which cops call «Bum - Stat» — is part of an «extraordinary coordination» among city agencies, de Blasio said.

And frankly, I am appalled that you voted for a man who has absolutely zero respect for women... among many other types of people and is running a slash and burn hateful campaign preying on peoples» fears and prejudices with crackpot proposals that would, if ever implemented, double — if not triple — the poverty rate, the unemployment rate, the homelessness rate, the suicide rate, deprive businesses of their customer base forcing many to fail, and on and on with the downward spiral.

She also addressed homelessness, an area in which Mayor Bloomberg does not have high marks among homeless advocacy groups.

The USICH offers guidance and helps to break down bureaucratic barriers among different government agencies, which has served as a model for the statewide Interagency Council on Homelessness.

«It's a moral cause,» said Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat who's among the legislators supporting a measure that would create a new statewide rent supplement for low - income families and individuals facing homelessness because of domestic violence and hazardous conditions.

Among the other issues that were under discussion was $ 1 billion in additional money to fight homelessness, expanding ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft to upstate, and enacting reforms to the procurement process.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death among homeless people, probably because they have a high rate of traditional risk factors such as smoking or undiagnosed or untreated hypertension, diabetes or high cholesterol, combined with the stress and low socio - economic status associated with homelessness.

Among topics discussed included youth violence, homelessness, environmental protection, and media literacy.

Among the issues Brier's class has addressed are theft prevention, recycling, literacy, and homelessness.