Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Build communities. When it is time to move homeless people into permanent housing, do not isolate them. City officials must resist the temptation to congratulate themselves with signs on the buildings, like those that have appeared in New York City, that in essence announce that this is where formerly homeless people live. Homelessness carries a terrible stigma, particularly for children. Its veterans must be allowed to return to the community without carrying that stigma with them...
...Have services, will travel. Even if social services are available, many homeless people cannot or will not use them. So more and more cities are mobilizing their resources. Food vans carry soup and sandwiches to the bridges and parks. Boston's Health Care for the Homeless program sends nurses out knocking on doors in family shelters, offering parents and children preventive health care...
...nuns knew that many homeless women have trouble moving directly from a shelter into a place of their own, even if apartments are available -- and affordable. A few months on the streets can leave a person deeply alienated and frightened of returning to "normal" life. Through self-esteem seminars, employment training, drug counseling and other programs, women are prepared to return to the job market, retrieve children from foster care and set up homes...
...sexually abused. This halfway house was their first experience of safety -- and for many, of responsibility as well. "This place saved my life," says Lynn Morozko, who sells her plasma and works at a women's shelter while earning a degree in design engineering. "A lot of people think homelessness is a type of social Darwinism," she says. "But it isn't stupid people who are homeless. It's that we hit walls that we can't get over by ourselves." Fortunately, Transitional Housing is perfecting the art of building ladders...
...that's because it was. Each spring the Washington-based Christmas in April program coordinates thousands of volunteers in 50 cities and towns from Vermont to California in renovating more than a thousand homes that are near collapse. Better to rebuild old dwellings, they figure, than to build new homeless shelters. In one day of hard work the 1,000 Hartsville volunteers used 400 gal. of paint, 800 lbs. of nails, 7,000 ft. of lumber, 5,000 squares of shingles and 200 bags of cement, all paid for by local donations with an enviable provision: if they fell short...