We focused on clients of a homeless shelter in San Diego, California. The facility prohibited smoking indoors and outdoors within five blocks of the building, and permitted smoking during four smoking breaks during the day in designated smoking zones away from the building. Current and former ...
The city of LA was one of few that reported a drop in unsheltered homeless people, with the new study reporting a 5% decrease as compared to 2023. HUD's 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report analyzes the number of people living in shelters, temporary housing...
Meals for Arena participants are prepared in the kitchen at one of HomeFirst’s shelters, the Boccardo Reception Center — also known as Little Orchard. Rooms at the Arena lack kitchens.“No other location (managed by HomeFirst) is having the same problem,” Chris Wess, another Arena ...
The University of San Diego Veterans Legal Clinic– Located in San Diego, California, this legal clinic represents veterans who find themselves in a dispute with a for-profit education company over the use of GI Bill funds or related education loans. It also offers free assistance navigating VA...
assessment should be completed to examine and determine the full extent of the social problem. Key informants are identified as well as the engagement and assessment skills a social worker would utilize in completing a needs assessment of the homeless crisis in downtown San Diego, California. ...
. Washington state has two cities where homelessness ranks high, with Seattle/Tacoma coming in at #5 and Spokane at #17. California has nine cities out of the top 30 with homeless problems, including LA (2), San Jose/Santa Clara (4), San Francisco/Oakland (8), San Diego (10), ...
“as a social condition in which people do not have regular housing and are forced to sleep in public places, public shelters, or facilities designed for homeless individuals and families” (p.280). The homeless population faces several adversaries in their lifetime of being homeless. Their ...
. Other CoCs in the U.S. experiencing a high level of homelessness are San Diego, Denver, San Jose and Santa Clara in California with around 10,000 homeless people counted each. Out of the 10 CoCs with the biggest homeless populations registered in 2023, five were located in California....
Chicago and Portland saw double-digit increases (+57% and +20% respectively), while several Southern California counties experienced increases larger than Los Angeles, including San Bernadino (+26%), San Diego (+22%), Kern (+22%), and Riverside (+12%). The number of unhoused people in...
Of 840 youth sampled from shelters, 660 met criteria to be included in the shelter sample (defined as youth who have spent at least one night in a youth or adult shelter, without the permission of parents or legal guardians), and 640 (97%) of these eligible youth completed the survey. ...