Selected challenge: Homelessness Zatambra Jones
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The document discusses homelessness among children in the United States. It notes that the number of homeless students has increased rapidly in recent years across both urban and rural areas. Homeless children face many challenges, as they are more likely to experience food insecurity, learning disabilities, mental health issues, and developmental delays compared to housed low-income children. However, the document emphasizes that schools can help foster resilience in homeless children by providing them a sense of belonging, linking their families to support services, and ensuring access to academic resources.
Selected challenge: Homelessness Zatambra Jones
- 1. Homelessness in tHe United states: tHe CHildren Zatambra Jones doCtor of edUCation Candidate: early CHildHood dr. Cassandra bosier
- 2. introdUCtion Currently in the United States the number of students who experience homelessness have increased rapidly in urban, suburban, and rural school districts. Regardless of the critical state, there is a absence of research of the diverse effects on students. How best can schools and communities serve our children?
- 3. area Key Professional & CommUnity organiZations Liberty House of Albany Faith Community Outreach Center, Inc. United Way Goodwill Resource & Job Center Boys & Girls Club YMCA 21st Century Program Department of Housing and Urban Development Albany Georgia - HUD Approved Housing Counseling Agency
- 4. ASSuMpTionS vS. FACTS MYTHS FACTS Charitable organizations will take care of the homeless. The needs have outgrown the capacity of charitable groups. It is a societal problem that requires collaborations between private charities and government, with active public support (Source: 2014 Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness) Most homeless people are single men. Families are the fastest growing population of homeless Families with children make up 41% of the homeless 1 out of 4 homeless people in the US is a child The majority of Homeless are adults who have made bad choices and are reaping the consequences. The average age of a homeless person is 9 years old. In one year 1.35 million children will experience homelessness Georgia ranks 49th out of 50 states in child homelessness. 60,000 Georgia children experience homelessness each year. (Source: Rainbow Village, 2012) There are no homeless students in my classroom, I do not live in the big city. Since the onset of the economic recession, rates of student homelessness have increased rapidly in urban, suburban, and rural school districts throughout the United States(Miller, 2011).
- 5. EFFECTS & inFluEnCES oF HoMElESSnESS on CHildrEn ⅕ of homeless children are separated from their immediate family at some point 83% of homeless children are exposed to at least one serious violent event by the age of 12 4 times more likely to show delayed development 2 times more as likely to have learning disabilities Experience more serious food insecurity A higher proportion of homeless children experience mental disorders Experience more disruptive behavior disorders, More likely to experience social phobia, More likely to have major depression as compared to their low-income housed counterparts
- 7. Fostering resilience in Homeless cHildren
- 8. lessons learned Children who experience homelessness are at a high risk of negative outcomes in multiple domains, but … I CAN Provide them with a sense of belonging Link them and their families with supports to assist through their experience Keep in contact with parents or guardians Know the provisions of the McKinney-Vento Act Keep in contact with the district liaison Ensure the student has access to supplies or materials needed for assignments Assign a buddy “Create an atmosphere of community in the classroom in which all students’ feelings and situations are accepted and stigmatization is out of the question.” (Dill, 2010)
- 9. References Dill, V. S. (2010). Students without homes. Educational Leadership, 68(3), 43-47. Kilmer, R. P., Cook, J. R., Crusto, C., Strater, K. P., & Haber, M. G. (2012). Understanding the ecology and development of children and families experiencing homelessness: implications for practice, supportive services, and policy. American journal of orthopsychiatry, 82(3), 389. Masten, AS. Children who overcome adversity to succeed in life. Just in Time Research: Resilient Communities. 2000. http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/components/7565_06.html. Moore, T., & McArthur, M. (2011). ‘Good for kids’: Children who have been homeless talk about school. Australian Journal of Education, 55(2), 147-160. National Center for Homeless Education http://www.serve.org/nche
- 10. References Dill, V. S. (2010). Students without homes. Educational Leadership, 68(3), 43-47. Kilmer, R. P., Cook, J. R., Crusto, C., Strater, K. P., & Haber, M. G. (2012). Understanding the ecology and development of children and families experiencing homelessness: implications for practice, supportive services, and policy. American journal of orthopsychiatry, 82(3), 389. Masten, AS. Children who overcome adversity to succeed in life. Just in Time Research: Resilient Communities. 2000. http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/components/7565_06.html. Moore, T., & McArthur, M. (2011). ‘Good for kids’: Children who have been homeless talk about school. Australian Journal of Education, 55(2), 147-160. National Center for Homeless Education http://www.serve.org/nche