Urban Survival Packs
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OBSTACLES TO HELPING HOMELESS VETERANS FIND HOUSING
OBSTACLES TO HELPING HOMELESS VETERANS FIND HOUSING
There are a number of obstacles involved in helping homeless veterans find housing. According toU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs statistics 11% of the adult homeless population involves American veterans. Most of these veterans are single. They tend to live in cities and urban areas, and they struggle with substance abuse, mental health issues like PTSD and other forms of mental illness, or they have co-occurring disorders.
Helping Homeless veterans
Helping homeless veterans find stable housing means addressing the obstacles that prevent the veteran from reaching this goal. Substance abuse and mental health treatment programs can remove obstacles that stand in the way of the veteran finding stable and reliable housing.
The Real Number of Homeless Veterans is Impossible to Determine
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released an estimate that calculates on any given night there will be 47,725 veterans who are homeless. The true extent of homelessness among veterans cannot be calculated with complete accuracy because some of these individuals fall through the cracks
This number is unacceptably high even according to the best estimates, and more needs to be done helping homeless veterans get off the street or warms clothes to wear and a warm coat and warm meal .
Helping Homeless Veterans: What More can be Done?
Many people mistakenly believe that since there is a VA and other government agencies that are tasked with helping homeless veterans that there is no pressing need to do more, but this is completely false.
American veterans deserve to be made whole, and to have a place to call home that is their own. As Americans, we owe them this, as well as our gratitude for everything that they have risked or lost while in military service.
One of most important answers is permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless people with special needs, including people with disabilities, mental illness, and addiction problems.
Source: Shad Meshad in the NVF article, Homelessness: Plenty of Talk, Not Enough Commitment.
Some possible ideas on how you can help the homeless veteran population or in any human being in your area of the USA include:
Take a look around your own local community and see if there is a need for helping someone in need. The odds are if you live in a city or urban area there are veterans and citizens who need help finding stable housing and other resources such as food or warm clothes to wear .
Contact homeless and veteran organizations in your area to see what you can do. Volunteer to help in any way that you can, whether that is filling out paperwork or trying to locate homeless veterans who need assistance and shelter .
What we have done is makeup Homeless “survival kits.” We Create and distribute kits that include items such as Military mess kits, soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and cosmetics sleeping bags warm clothing and warm underwear like long johns. ( We Try coordinating this through a group that gives out meals from a van, for example.)
During cold weather,We organize drives for blankets, coats, hats, scarves, mittens, socks, and the like.
Phone calls. Help people experiencing homelessness contact loved ones by offering the opportunity to make free long distance calls and calls to find work and the help they need we help citizens get ID birth certificates . Donate to help us show these beautiful people they are not alonehttps://the-family-assistants-campaign.blogspot.com/2017/04/obstacles-to-helping-homeless-veterans.html
The Family Assistants Campaign.
“ I am Joseph F Barber Serving my country was a life-changing experience for me. It was during those years that I realized the importance of commitment, dedication, honor, and discipline. I have never laughed so much; nor have I ever prayed so much. I made life-long friends. The leaders and heroes I served with helped shape me into the man I am today. I feel honored to have been a part of such a great tradition and grateful to others who have walked the same path. Thank you!”
We run this non-sectarian, non-partisan organization to ignite discussion on our world and in our communities, to educate our world about the injustice of aggressive violence.
We believe that in order to reach out to our peers most effectively, we cannot stand on religious arguments alone, and we cannot adhere entirely to one political side in our currently polarized culture. We believe that the consistent life ethic is not for any one religious group or for any one political position, but rather for everyone dedicated to human rights, life and dignity.
No matter your reason for believing in the inherent value of human life, we hope you can join us, and through our efforts we can together endeavor to make violence unthinkable -
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FOR PEACE AND ALL LIFE
THE FAMILY ASSISTANCE CAMPAIGN WAS FOUNDED IN 2012 in 2012 just before Xmas my oldest son Joshua took is own life and since that day I have been working to help young people to overcome there emotional issue many of these young people are homeless and cast outs for one reason or the other that matters not to me what does matter is I am trying to help these young people survive these years of pain that as lead them to this place and help them see that violence is not the way nor is taking your own life the answer, Right now I provide a place for them to come to for food ,shelter rides to and from (work or school) in which education is a major part of my strategy to their recovery from this form of depression and isolation from what most of us call a normal life and help them see that just because what ever issue brought them to this place it is not the end. So many of our young generation is wrapped up in violence right down to going to school and in many districts of this country its a battlefield.In my time working and founding the veterans project and the family assistance campaign , I have experinced the deaths of over 17 friends and fellow troopers I had the pleasure of serving with and 9 kids I had been feeding and assisting in all 26 american citizens or being killed by the useless violance in our communitys veterans and school children killing themselves as our leaders fail to except nor end by practical down to earth methods like love, communication, Respect, acceptance,and faith, YOU CAN NOT IMAGINE HOW MANY OF THSES PEOPLE HAVE THAT ONE ISSUE ACCEPTANCE AND FEELING ALONE CAN BE THE ALTIMATE STRUGGLE
We ALL SO Create and distribute kits WE CALL HOMELESS URBAN SURVIVAL KITS
i HAVE PROVIDED A SHORT VIDEO TO GIVE YOU AND IDEA OF JUST ONE OF THE HOMELESS SURVIVAL KITS WE MAKE WE HAVE A TOTAL OF THREE DESIGNS
design 1 is a basic pack we give out for a $25 donation, design 2 we give out for a 50 dollar donation and design 3 is our ultimate pack and one I wish I could give every homeless citizen in our country,
In an often uncaring world it's important that we reach out to each other. You can give to the homeless in an indirect way (and you should if you want to) but giving and caring directly gives them something beyond price - human contact and recognition.
Perhaps the most painful part of homelessness for me was the isolation. At times, I felt there was no one in the world who saw me as a human being. While I have a hard time with eye contact myself, I saw that no one met my eyes; they turned their heads and hurried along.
By giving directly to homeless people you give a gift of recognizing their humanity and improving their sense of dignity and self-esteem. The items listed may not be dramatically life changing but they can serve as an excuse to approach someone who needs your voice, someone who needs to know that someone cares.
We also provide meals for the homeless and any citizens that may need some thing to eat with your $10 contribution we can feed a citizens 3 healthy meals for 2 days at know time as any donation given by any of the campaign or project I run been kept for a madest administration fee and 99% of most 501(c) organization, or simply a 501(c) do ,100%of your contributions go to some one in needs as with other campaigns and project I have run.
The 5% for veterans, families & children
I give you this pledge the 5% pledge is my pledge to the citizens of our country that I will give 5% of my net profit from our family owned business Tradesmen services to a group that will and does assist veterans ,families and children,
GOD BLESS US ALL
JOSEPH F BARBER
URBAN SURVIVAL PACKS
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JOSEPH F BARBER