Homeless Children
Hidden In Plain Sight: California's Homeless children
5/20/2012
Tamara Richlin
Chances are you have met at least one; they are in our communities across America, you may have seen one while taking the bus, or waiting in line in the grocery store. You or your child may have gone to school with one, or they may be the young family you saw at Wal-Mart, when you went to get medicine in the middle of the night. They are refuges of our economic recession, violence, and our academic failures; you have seen them, yet they are hidden by denial and misunderstanding they are our homeless families and children. They are also the fastest growing segment of the homeless population, in ...
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According to the McKinney Vento, Homeless Assistance Act (Part C of No-Child Left Behind) Homelessness refers to Individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. Including any public or private place not ordinarily designed for regular sleeping accommodations by human beings, and who are sharing the housing of others due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar cause. They include people who live in motels, shelters, transitional homes, trailer parks, camping grounds, are awaiting foster homes, living in cars, parks, bus and train stations, abandoned buildings, or substandard housing, and doubled up with friends and family. In short, the homeless are people who do not have a home of their own (Murphy & Tobin, 2011).
In the years 2006 and 2010, the National Center on Family Homelessness published reports called America's youngest outcasts. This report was an accumulation of research and statistics about the nature of homeless families in ...
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The 2010 count of homeless children for California is 334,131, down from 2009's count of 496,953; when California changed its method of counting. Due to untrained personal, its actual number of homeless children is probably higher then reported. Majority of these children are in grade eight or below, with only about 12% in high school. By ethnicity, the highest ranking is 51% for Hispanic, 35% white, 8% black, 5% Asian and 1% Native American (The National Center on Family Homelessness, 2010).
A state's score for children and their families at risk of becoming homeless is based on structural determinants. These include amount of affordable housing, percent of ...
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