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HOMELESS CHILDREN: AMERICA'S NEW OUTCASTSThis sheet provides a condensed overview of selected information from children homelessness: New America's Outcasts. Part IA 1. Homelessness in the family: A New Social ProblemExcept during the Great Depression, women and children never have been on the streets of our country an insignificant number. During the 1980s, cuts in benefits, coupled with rapidly rising rents and housing adearth inexpensive endanger the stability of all people on low incomes and fixed. In thesame time, the number of households headed by women increased dramatically. As a result, nation'spopulation of homeless families increased from an almost negligible to almost 40% of the population overallhomeless today. United States Alone among the industrialized countries where women comprise andchildren such a large percentage of our country homeless. 2. Over a million people without ChildrenAlthough home counting the exact number of homeless children is difficult, a consensus is emerging amongresearchers. According to the National Coalition for the People Homeless, 1.2 million children are homeless onany given night. In support of this figure are estimates from the U.S. Department of Education that 400,000 children homeless reportalmost were served by public schools in the country last year. For more thanhalf of all homeless children are under 6 and not yet in school, childrencan least 800,000 people are presumed to be homeless. Based on these data, the National Center for Family Homelessnessconcludes that more than one today. million American children are homeless 3. Homelessness Will IncreaseLooking family beyond the current figures, the National Center for Homelessness Family (NCFH) predicts that housing markets thattight accompanied by declining availability of cash benefits as a result of welfarereform lead to an increase homeless family. To determine which states will have the biggestproblem, NCFH created an index of seven risk factors for the homeless family. These factors wereidentified of epidemiological research conducted over the past ten years. The classification of states in the Report. ispresented to Part II 1. Homelessness SickResearchers causes children to have isolated NCFH homeless as a direct predictor of children from infancy specific illnesses.Homeless: â € ¢ They are in fair or poor health twice as often as other children and four times the childrenwhose families earning over $ 35,000 € à ¢ year.â have higher rates of low birth weight and need special care right after birth four times more often asother children.â € ¢ They have very high rates of acute illness, with half suffering from two or more symptoms during asingle € ¢ month.â have double ear infections, five times more diarrhea and stomach problems, and six times many speech and stammering € ¢ problems.â are four times more likely to be asthmatic.â € ¢ starvation more than twice the rate children. other 2. The injured youth homelessness ChildrenEvery day, homeless children face stress, often traumatic events.â € ¢ 74% of homeless children worry they will not take place for Live. € ¢ 58% are concerned that will not happen sleep.â worrying € ¢ 87% of that something bad will happen to their year family.Within one: â € ¢ 97% of the movement of homeless children, many up to three times.â € ¢ More than 30% are expelled from their housing.â € ¢ 22% are separated from their families put in foster care or sent to live a relative.â € ¢ Almost 25% have witnessed acts of violence within their family.The constant barrage of stressful and traumatic experiences has profound effects on cognitive development of homeless andemotional € ¢ children.â homeless children show slower development than other children do.â € ¢ More than a fifth of homeless children between 3 and 6 years of age have emotional problems problemsserious enough to require professional care.â € ¢ homeless children between 6 and 17 years of fighting with very high rates of mental health healthproblems.â € ¢ Less than a third of children are homeless receiving mental health treatment. 3. FamiliesFamilies devastates the homeless are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population now represents almost 40% of homeless OFTHE nation. Over 85% of homeless families are headed by single mothers, homeless family consists of a young theaverage mother and her two small children, most of which arebelow the age of 6 mothers years.Homeless has an average annual income of less than $ 8000, living in 63% of the federal povertylevel for a family of three.â € ¢ Only 21% of homeless mothers receive money from family, partners, or friends.â € ¢ 39% have been hospitalized for medical treatment.â € ¢ 22% have asthma, compared with 5% of women under 45 years.â € ¢ 20% have anemia, compared with 2% of women under 45 years.â € ¢ 40% report alcohol or drug dependency at some point in their lives.Although 70% of parents of children without home are in contact with their children, most do not live with thefamily. The downward spiral into homelessness for a child is often accelerated if a father loses his job, become injured or ill, has a fight with alcohol or drugs or is involved with criminal justice System. € ¢ 50% of parents are unemployed.â € ¢ 43% have problems with drugs or alcohol.â € ¢ 31% physical or mental health problems.â € ¢ 32% are in jail or children probation.Homeless are at particularly high risk to be placed in foster care, 12% of the homeless childrenare placed in foster care compared to just over 1% of other children. The National Center has identified FamilyHomelessness foster care as one of the two risk factors of childhood thatpredicts homeless family during adulthood.â € ¢ 44% of homeless mothers lived outside their homes at some point during their childhood, 20% of these women were placed in foster care.â € ¢ 70% of homeless mothers placed in foster care as children have had at least one frequency ownchildren of care.The fomenting violence in the lives of homeless mothers is staggering.â € ¢ 63% have been battered by an intimate male partner.â% € ¢ 27 have required medical treatment due to violence by an intimate male partner.â € ¢ 25% have been physically or sexually assaulted during adulthood by someone who anintimate partner.â € ¢ 66% were battered child by a caretaker or other adult in the household beforereaching 18th € ¢ 43% were abused children.When sexually when violence from childhood combined with his experience as adults, 92% of homelessmothers have been severely physically or sexually assaulted, 88% have been battered by her partner or intimate familymember. These repeated acts of brutality on the outcome Publish unusually high rates of problems among people seriousemotional mothers. homeless â € ¢ 36% have suffered post traumatic stress disorder, three times the rate of other women.â € ¢ 45% had a disorder Major Depressive twice the rate of other women.â € ¢ 31% have attempted suicide at least once during first adolescence.â € ¢ 12% have been hospitalized for treatment of mental illness.Among homeless children: â € ¢ 8% have been physically battered, twice the rate of other% children.â € ¢ 8 have been victims of sexual abuse, three times the rate of other children.â € ¢ 35% have been subject to child protection% investigation.â € ¢ 24 have witnessed violence within their family.â € ¢ 15% have seen their father hit their mother.â € ¢ 11% have seen their mother abused by a man partner. 4. Homeless children in the state and federal Anti SchoolDespite efforts to provide homeless children with improved access to school public, atleast a fifth of homeless children do not attend school.Homelessness takes children away from their own schools and classmates. For many homelesschildren: â € ¢ There are no shelters for transport school.â € ¢ makeshift living arrangements are too short to enroll in a new school worthwhile.â € ¢ Lack of academic and medical records creates obstacles to the demands of daily registration.â € ¢ find food and educational needs of foster children living aside.Homeless children who manage to attend school will face barriers to discourage their academic success.â € ¢ homeless children are four times the average delay development.â € ¢ They have more academic problems than other children.â € ¢ under special service education.A € ¢ are suspended twice children.Among other homeless children, which is twice the number of students with learning disabilities and three timesthe number of students with children emotional and behavioral problems.Homeless are twice as likely to repeat a grade.â € ¢ 21% of homeless children repeat a grade because of frequent absences from school, compared TO5% other children.â € ¢ 14% of repeating a degree, because they have moved to a new school, compared with 5% other children.Within a single year: â € ¢ 40% of homeless children attend two different schools.â € ¢ 28% attend three or more different piece schools. action IIIImmediate be taken to end the current epidemic of the immediate family homelessness. ActionThe seven points presented in detail in the report will significantly improve the welfare of children ofhomeless be. The platform presents action steps concrete: 1. Protecting the health of homeless children.2. Eliminating hunger and food insecurity.3. Improving mental health services.4. Support education, training, and work.5. Avoid unnecessary separation families.6. Expand violence prevention, treatment and monitoring services.7. Ensuring access to school and opportunities for successful long-term school. scale activities must be conducted SolutionsLarger longer term to address the systemic economic and social causes of the homeless family. The details are presented in report.1. Develop an adequate supply of decent affordable housing.2. Maximize the economic resources of families poor and build their assets.3. Establish training and career development4. Establish work programs and find companies willing to work with homeless people in employment chances5. Establish ongoing mentoring programs
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