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Many homeless adults suffer from addiction and/or psychological disorders. Re-housing these individuals as well as trying to get them back on their feet will fail if the person is not equipped to deal with life successfully.
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Wendy
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One issue with both mental health and substance abuse treatment services is that they need to be available when a person needs them. Sometimes treatment is timing sensitive. On-demand services would be fantastic.
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phenomina
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there are all kinds of homeless and many reasons. yes, supportive treatment is good, and jobs are good. but let's face it many people are going to be out of work at any given time, whether they are addicts or straight clean living people.
SO we need to have housing that :
1) simply provides a home even when the occupants can't pay any rent. whether they are disabled or elderly or not, whether they have kids or not.
2) other housing that is not going to evict people when they fall off the wagon, have other issues, etc. In other words a setting where the rules are not so strict as to cause weak individuals to lose their housing. Unconditional housing with connection that reports to treatment counselors in already existing system..
3) a bare bones support liason that will make sure rent gets paid by those who can't manage their disability check properly. They set up automatic rent payment and equal pay utility payments to be paid by electronic transfer each month. From a minimally supervised account that has direct deposit. etc. Only those 2 items are overseen by the liason, the rest of the check gets paid to the individual @ 75% first of month, 25% end of 3rd week of month. for example. A relative can be appointed to do this, lower cost.
4) establish required group counseling / therapy / support sessions as appropriate for sorting out issues, empowerment, for those too dysfunctional to be successful in this system.
5) help homeless, disabled and indigent examine and find family resources that agencies can ask them to help their family member etc. Some homeless have millionnaire relatives.6) help victims prosecute and get cash awards from those who have damaged them. Too often they cannot get any attention from legal aid or attorneys on their own. This is a source of funding for them which is terribly overlooked at great cost. Prioritize this and remove CIVIL statute of limitations for victimization of any kind. Because the victimization ruins lives and makes people feel helpless, debilitated and dependent on social service handouts.
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mark f. ambrose
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Are you saying that homeless persons are all drug abusers and alcoholics? My understanding is they are both illnesses that need to be treated,however, funding for these programs are minimal.I would like to say that all of us homeless are not psychologically imbalanced or on drugs or alcoholics. Although housing is essential, training for careers are a higher level of concern to maintain a home.The homeless need Big help.
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Lori Criss
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And the living environment must be supportive of the persons effort to change. Let's document the effectiveness of sober housing.
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Karin Thornburg
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Generally, detox services are offered on an outpatient basis. This simply does not work for the homeless population. For the chronic homeless population, substance abuse detox and treatment will require a much slower, more intensive and more supportive process. This type of treatment needs additional funding.
