Georgia: The Poultry State Full of Hungry People
By Henley Brock Moon The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness estimated there to be 10,443 Georgians experiencing homelessness on any given day in 2019. That may not seem like much compared to Georgia’s 10.62 million residents, but housing and feeding over ten thousand individuals is still a daunting task. However, given Georgia’s massive poultry industry, no one should go hungry. There are too many chickens—both broilers (chickens raised to be eaten) and layers
Video Recording and Its Affect on Homeless Communities
By Nicole Arcieri Almost everyone is able to access the world at their fingertips as the use of smartphones has significantly risen in the past decade. Cell phone camera quality has also greatly improved, giving users the opportunity to snap photos and record videos wherever they go. This phenomenon, although it has its positives, can negatively impact the homeless community. Individuals that are homeless may not want videos or pictures of them to be on somebody’s device or p
Battling an Uncontrollable Fight
For more than one generation, we in the west have aggressively spread our contemporary knowledge of mental disease through the globe. We have made the name well known while agreeing our approach reveals a natural basis of mental pain and dispels pre-scientific myths and toxic stigma. We are now living in a world where people with mental illnesses are treated as people born with uncontrollable diseases. Since disease has been a stigma in our nation for so many years, there are
The Epitome of Homelessness
Homelessness is the condition when people exist without a permanent home. For example a house or apartment. People who are homeless are most frequently unable to develop and maintain normal, safe and sufficient housing. The statuary definition of homeless varies from region to region, or among other jurisdictions in the same nation or area. The term homeless may also include people whose main nighttime house is at a homeless shelter, a domestic force housing, long-term house
Holidays Are Great, but They're Just the Beginning
One of the most popular things to do around the holidays is volunteering at a soup kitchen. Namely, Thanksgiving is a holiday in which people feel the deeper necessity to provide food for those that need it. Why is this? Is it that Americans see excess food on one day and feel that they finally have enough to give some to charity? Do they feel guilty when giving thanks for all that they have and thinking about those that have far less? Whatever the reason may be, I want to hi
Homelessness and Safe Sex Practices
by Nicole Arcieri February is a month of decadence and celebration. It’s Black History Month, Mardi Gras falls upon us, Lunar New Year festivities occur, and we even have Groundhog Day! One of the most popular holidays among the February mix is Valentine’s Day, which, if you are currently reading this, has just passed. For many, it is a time of romance and intimacy, therefore, it is important that people are having safe sex. The average person probably has access to condoms,
Drug Addiction and Homelessness: A Tightly Knit Circle
Justin Bower “Don’t give money to the homeless,” says the common middle-class adult, “they’ll just use it to buy drugs.” This is a quote that I grew up hearing. Though I didn’t interact with the homeless or hear their stories until much later in life, my first impression of homeless people was that all of them got to the place they are because of drug addiction. That is simply not true. Unfortunately, though, addiction to illegal drugs seems to be a dangerous trend in homeles
How Toxic Stress Affects Brain Development in Homeless Children
Emily Corso Experiencing homelessness during childhood greatly increases the risk of experiencing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). For instance, 68.1% of adults who experienced homelessness reported encountering four or more ACEs, compared to 16.3% among adults who hadn’t experience homelessness during childhood (Radcliffe et al. 811). Homeless children are at a greater risk for experiencing or witnessing a number of ACEs, such as domestic and verbal abuse, as well as ph
Homeless in Harsh Weather
by Nicole Arcieri It is no secret that people that are homeless face many challenges in their day to day lives. People that are homeless often have to worry about when they will be having their next meal, where they’re going to sleep, or when their next opportunity to shower will be. What happens when increment weather conditions come into play? Last week’s Nor’easter was a brutal one. Many establishments were closed on the day of the snowstorm. Even COVID-19 vaccination site
Devastating Consequences of Lockdowns
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