The name of the article that I read was
called, “Welfare
Officials Expanding Homeless Families Program By $35 Million.” This
article took place in Miami, Florida and was about Federal Child
Welfare expanding a program to help families that are at risk of
their children being put into foster care. The way that these
families will be helped is by providing housing and case workers for
them. Over a few hundred families will participate in this. For
these families to benefit from this program, they have to have been
homeless for at least a year and have one case of abuse. Their reason
for doing this is to give children a safe home and environment, so
that they will not have to put the children in foster care. In the
article, they said that they did this housing in New York in 2007.
They said that the results from this was that families had stable
households, and children had better attendance in school. From
creating these homes for families, the government saved over 2
million dollars.
This
article took place in the United States, but poverty is something
that impacts people all over the world. I think that this program is
a good thing. The article said that once a child is in the system,
they are usually in there for a extended amount of time. I believe
that keeping the children out of the system is a great idea. The
article also said that they helped these families by job training,
substance abuse and mental treatment, trauma counseling, and
parenting classes. It is nice that the government is giving these
families homes, but even better that they are trying to fix the root
of the problem. They are doing this by having these tools to help
these families move forward healthily. It is an overall good thing,
and this will help the fastest growing portion of the poverty
population which are families.
Danielle Holmes
1:20am
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