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  • Essay / Social Effects of Homelessness - 1435

    The authors highlighted one-on-one coaching as one of the social work practice strategies helping homeless people return to work (Hoven, Ford, Willmot, Hagan, and Siegrist (2014). Hudson and Vissing (2010) noted that individuals who are male, young, unemployed, never married, and living in extreme poverty are most vulnerable to a prolonged experience of homelessness. These findings suggest the need. of economic support, such as affordable housing and job training and job placement services, supported education, as well as mental health services for people at risk of becoming homeless. aware of the combination of homelessness and concomitant untreated substance use or mental health disorders because these factors make it extremely difficult to return to mainstream society. Additionally, “there is a strong correlation between discharge from a mental health facility and increased crime, arrest rates, and homelessness” (Stigmatized Hearts, 2014, p. xiii). Unfortunately, after deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill became a reality, “the promise of community-based care for people with mental health problems never came to fruition” (Stigmatized Hearts, 2014, p...