During this rating period, Zhenya Gezalyan continued her assignment as a GAIN Services Worker (GSW) in the Homeless Case Management Program Unit at the Southwest Family CalWORKs district. She performed the duties of a Homeless Case Manager (HCM) under the supervision of the rater, Terry McKinney. While under Ms. McKinney’s supervision, Ms. Gezalyan was primarily responsible for assessing the needs of homeless and at-risk of being homeless families applying for/or already receiving CalWORKs, obtain and retain permanent housing through advocacy, communication and the identification and facilitation of services. Ms. Gezalyan accepted her responsibilities and used her skills and knowledge to meet and exceed the Department’s expectations for…
With many healthcare organizations closing because of these growing indictments it has been ever so important for policies, ethics, and practices to be perfect. Negligence is another topic in the healthcare field that is very important and requires full attention and detail to avoid this. Negligence is defined as ones actions or lack of actions that may cause injury or death (Dunn…
Why are the homeless criminalized? Is it because they lack the necessary tools to function in society, therefore, making them a liability? Because poverty causes them to break the law? Or is it for other reasons? American Society has long cast homelessness as a social problem while attempting to escape the reality that those without homes function in society with those who have homes.…
In the article, “Homeless, Mike Dick Was 51, Looked 66,” author Kevin Fagan stated that “The nation needs to commit, emotionally and economically, to saving these older folks” (321.) The older folks referred to in the article are homeless people that live across the United States. Fagan maintained that the nation can do better in terms giving back to the needy, especially considering the wealthy of the nation. However, what Fagan failed to mention in the article is what the homeless are not doing for themselves. Long time homelessness is a predicament that can only be blamed on the homeless because people that wind up homeless for whatever reasons are capable of changing their situation.…
There are many ethical dilemmas in our world that I wish I had the ability to change. In order to see a major impact in our society we first have to start by fixing the dilemmas around us. One of the biggest concerns in my community currently is homelessness. I see people everyday on the streets being dehumanized and disregarded by the people around them. This is the most important problem I would like to solve.…
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Overview Everyone in America talks about the American dream; a big house with a great family and a white picket fence in the yard. For others, the American dream is to never have an empty stomach, it’s a place other than the cold and dirty concrete, it’s where people can shower more than once a week. The American dream isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be for some. There are people that go day after day barely surviving.…
Anti-Homeless Laws in America The homeless population has always been looked down on. They’ve suffered violence, taunting, starvation and a number of other ailments. In Cape Coral Florida a thirteen year old brutally stabbed fifty one year old Thomas Bergstrom in his tent at a ramshackle camp.…
There are many different kinds of specialized courts ranging from drug courts, domestic violence courts, homeless courts, and mental health courts. Homeless courts were created only for the homeless, these courts differ from other courts. Homeless courts are different because they are used to resolving unsettled misdemeanor warrants as opposed to processing new criminal offenses. The purpose of establishing homeless courts are: 1) most homeless people are fine with continuing being homeless and do not want to participate in the justice system. 2)…
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, “homelessness occurs when people or households are unable to acquire and/or maintain housing they can afford”. People who are living in poverty have the highest possibility of becoming homeless. Homelessness in America can be improved if the government developed employment, housing, and mental health assistance. Since 2007, the government has implemented several programs and in doing so, homelessness has been on a steady decline.…
Homelessness in the United States of America is a real issue. According to the November 2015 National Homeless Report (AHAR) to Congress the numbers of homeless in America are staggering numbers. There are estimated 564,706 persons homeless every night. Additionally, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the homeless are more susceptible to infectious diseases, chronic illness, mental health issues, substance abuse and violence. Even more alarming is the mortality rate for the homeless, which is four to nine times higher when compared to those persons that are not homeless.…
Problem and Background There is a growing rate of homelessness in the United States and it is happening to individuals from all walks of life. Sub groups including veterans, children, families, senior citizens are the collection of homeless individuals. In the 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, 564,708 people were homeless on a given January night. Majority of these individuals (69 percent) were staying in residential programs for homeless people, and 31 percent were found in unsheltered locations. Twenty-three percent (127,786) of all homeless people were children, under the age of 18, nine percent (52,973) were between the ages of 18 and 24, and 68 percent (383,948) were 25 years or older.…
Problem Statement As mentioned above, homelessness is a pressing problem that needs to be addressed in society. There are a multitude of macro factors that affect individuals and lead to homelessness. However, the needs, situations, and experiences of individual groups that make up the overarching homeless population are varied (Stalker, 2014). Homeless families are affected by many of the factors that impact other homeless groups, such as poverty, regulations and laws, and lack of affordable housing.…
This paper gives a short introduction of tort law and mainly focus on the standard of care, how the courts determining what is the ‘reasonable person’ and whether there are some exceptions to the courts. The law of tort is the law of civil liability for wrongfully injury which provides remedies to individuals harmed by the wrongful conduct of others in order to protect an individual’s private rights. There are two major categories of torts: intentional tort and negligent tort. The general principle of negligence is concerned with compensating people who have injured or damaged and thus a defendant will be negligent if he or she falling below the standard of the ordinary reasonable man in the same situation. A person will be liable for their…
Tort in legal words can be defined as the body of various obligations, remedies and rights that are put to use by courts whilst civil proceedings to ensure justice is served and relief is provided to people who suffer from the harmful and wrong full act of others. A plaintiff can be defined as the person who sustains injury or is distressed about fiscal damage as the result of tortious conduct On the other hand a defendant is the person who is held for causing the injury and sustains liability for the damage caused.…