But Lee said Friday the county is still awaiting outreach from San Jose officials, and isn’t going to budge on its approach to addressing homelessness. While the county and city collaborated in the past to make inroads on housing and mental health services needs, there have been mis...
On Jan. 13, with their lives upended and their immediate future uncertain, Miller, who, like her husband, works on Skid Row for the County Department of Health Services, was back at work. Ruffin was taking a day off that was shaping up li...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Staggering a bit as he spoke, Jason Lance stood between the proverbial rock and a dismally cold, hard place against the backdrop of a bright-lit afternoon. Scattered in the snow to his right were damaged boxes spilling apples, unc
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 ...
February 25, 2022 Formerly unhoused resident Geneva Strickland walks down the trail near Coyote Creek to find homeless camps in the early morning hours of Feb. 23. Strickland took part in Santa Clara County's point in time homeless count. Photo by Tran Nguyen...
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 ...
Flanigan, S., & Welsh, M. (2021). Unmet needs of individuals experiencing homelessness near San Diego waterways: The roles of displacement and overburdened service systems.Journal of Health and Human Services Administration,43(2), 105–130. ...
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 hepatitis treatment and prevention services, but it has also offered new opportunities...
The infrastructure and advanced services systems that citizens come to expect from larger metropolitan centres simply do not exist, or if they do it is nowhere near the scale of larger cities. 3.2. Contextualised policy responses to rural and regional homelessness In 2023, Australian rural and ...
“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...