Homelessness.

Homelessness

In the United States, there are approximately 3.5 million adults and children that are homeless at some point through out the year. Even though almost 44% of homeless have some sort of job, they still are considered the poorest group of people in America. The average homeless person makes $367 a month compared to most families who make $2,840 a month. Most people think that homeless people just panhandle for their money, but according to the National Training and Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness only 10% of homeless do this. Denver is just one of the many cities that have a homeless problem. The city of Denver is currently spending almost 70 million dollars a year on homelessness. This money is spent on shelter for them, healthcare and other programs that try and help homeless people find jobs. Even though so much money is being spent on this cause there are still more than 4,600 homeless people in Denver. Our Exhibition Group knows that we can not solve Denver’s homeless problem. But, if we can make a little difference in some of their lives then we have done a good job. When we see homeless people it makes us sad, especially when we see the kids. Therefore, we want to help them. Our goal is to raise awareness in our school about homelessness and let kids know what they can do to help. We also want to raise food for homeless kids by having a “Fuzzy Slippers for Food Day” at our school. We would like to donate this food when we volunteer at a soup kitchen that is for homeless families. In conclusion, we know that that are a lot of homeless kids in Denver, but maybe with our help some of them will have a better day.

Here are some statistics we found about homeless people in Colorado:

66% of homeless are parents with kids; most of these are single parents 26% of homeless have substance abuse problems 21% of homeless suffer from mental illnesses 20% of homeless have a serious medical condition 27% of homeless were in the foster care system at some point in their life 21% of homeless were homeless as kids 54% of homeless have been in jail at some point in their life

This information is from www.denversroadhome.org/theproblem.php

VIDEOS Homeless Teenager

http://www.unitedwaydenver.org/site/c.rwL8KjNULrH/b.4122679/k.2D7C/Mile_High_United_Way__Three_Initiative_Video.htm This is our group at The Crossing. We served over 100 lunches to men, women and children.

This is Mrs. Rigsby with a hair net on. She thinks she looks hot!

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