Why should we have homeless services? Because you or your children could very well become homeless.
Here’s 6 ways normal, hardworking folks and their children can and do become homeless in America. Along with each one comes one or more solutions.
Cause #1- A Physical Illness: Serious physical illness and accidents strikes at random like lightening, and when they do they can destroy finances, leave lasting emotional and physical debilitation, and stress family and friendship bonds to the breaking point.
If you are one of the 40 million American’s without health insurance, you could be seriously financially sideswiped by a serious physical malady. But even if you have health insurance, the emotional and physical debilitation that comes along, part and parcel, with illness often slashes income and even makes you unable to work in your former career.
Cause #2- A Mental Illness: Mental illness, like physical illness, also strikes at random and like lightening.
The National Institute of Mental health says that 1 out of 20 people have a mental illness and 1 out of a 100 people have schizophrenia — a debilitating and degenerative mental illness that emerges in adolescence and young adulthood… (Read more in issue.)