The Indiana Youth Institute just came out with their Kids Count in Indiana Data book. With this comes snapshots of data of each county in Indiana. In Marion County, the population of children totaled 236,434, and the following are some staggering numbers about our children: 24% live in poverty Teen birth rate is 35.5 (per [...]
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House calls to the Homeless?
It is often hard for the homeless to find time to make a doctor’s appointment. Whether it has to do with not KNOWING where to go, putting other things before health care, or being unable to transport yourself there like many homeless who may live in supportive housing many of the homeless do not have [...]
Childhood Abuse leading to Addiction – who is blamed?
Coming up with a title for this post was tough.. It is easy to answer the question and not read the post. Who is blamed for childhood abuse? – Adults/caretakers in that child’s life. Who is blamed for addiction? – The individual who can’t help themselves. But before you click away, what if I posed [...]
Homeless outreach in the winter…
Christmas weekend brought some VERY heavy snow to the East Coast. Holding up flights around the nation, making streets unable to drive on, and giving another obstacle for homeless people trying to survive the harsh cold. Winter is tough for homeless outreach teams everywhere. No one likes to see a man like Richie – “On [...]
Abuse and neglect prevention starts BEFORE birth
A report done by the National Center for Children in Poverty in September 2010 showed the factors that increase the risk of infant maltreatment. These factors are: smoking during pregnancy infant having two or more siblings Medicaid enrollee unmarried infant low-birth weight less than high school education teen mother short spacing (under 15 months) between [...]
Homelessness and the lack of resources…
What if you said you couldn’t help someone jump their car because you didn’t have the cables? That isn’t too hard to get over. You just didn’t have the resources to help them, but maybe somebody else will come along with jumper cables. It is a pretty common tool to keep in a car. What if you [...]
Homelessness can happen to Anyone
Rarely do we think about a homeless person once being rich or successful or even stable. What if I told you that there are even many star athletes who are now homeless? In reading a Poverty In America blog post on change.org, there is a story about a former WORLD CHAMPION Middleweight boxer named Iran [...]
The Face of Homelessness
What is the image that comes to mind when thinking about a homeless person? “Usually dirty, drunk, and very stupid sounding, they just ask for money, or demand it.” This was a quote taken from Thehomelesspresident’s Blog. The author of this blog is a man who became homeless when he was 12 years old. He [...]
What can you do to fight Breast Cancer?
You can make a difference for an Indianapolis woman at risk for breast cancer. According to BreastCancer.org, about 1 in 8 women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. Mammography is a simple screening that is vital to the early detection of breast cancer, but low-income women [...]
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