MORE: Unemployment, isolation: COVID-19's mental health impact Marcy Stidum is the director of Campus Awareness, Resource, and Empowerment (CARE) Services at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. CARE Services offers four programs, including support for students experiencing homelessness, food...
can lose their medications to theft or raids on their encampments and may be experiencing other challenges such as mental health issues and substance use. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench into HIV and
Project RoomKey originated during the COVID-19 crisis as an effort to prevent the spread of the virus among LA’s homeless population by utilizing vacant motel rooms. The project benefitted motel owners by allowing them to make up for lost revenue due to the pandemic by temporarily housing ho...
a couple weeks, but we need to really decrease this program and attack at it and decrease the problem accuse me and attack it from the root causes, which are mainly mental health, transitional housing, um ah rental increases, housing price increases, COVID, ah immigration, and other things...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2021, November 4). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Interim guidance on people experiencing unsheltered homelessness.https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/homeless-shelters/unsheltered-homelessness.html ...
Though homelessness has been prevalent in the area long before 2020, he said the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the problem, as well as made it more visible. “I think it’s a combination of it’s gotten a little bit worse, but the pandemic has also gotten it out on the street ...
The biennial count is a critical metric in understanding the homeless crisis and identifying the needs of people on the streets. The countyopted last year to cancel the 2021 countdue to COVID-19. Advocates said the lack of information has left the region without a clear picture of how bad ...
But some personal issues made it difficult for me to get along with co-workers and I thought I better quit and make it easier on everybody else I was again looking for work. My Uncle and I got into a dispute about internet bills. You pay a ridiculous amount for internet up here. …...
“It started ever since the COVID, people losing their jobs, losing their houses, losing their apartments, losing everything,” he said. “And this is where they end up.” Sometimes, numbers can’t explain what a city is doing. The city of Los Angeles said its sanitation department res...
A near-unanimous 93 per cent of poll respondents supported increased funding for homelessness: More shelter spaces, more mental health treatment, more programs to get homeless Canadians into the labour force. Article content The most unpopular strategies to address homelessness? Police clearances of ...