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I agree. That's why I suggested psych testing.That's sound great, but you can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves. I'll all for helping people that will benefit from help, but there would have to be a way to weed out the bad apples. You just can't help "everyone." Some don't want it, some won't appreciate it, and some will just game the system and figure being helped is a way of life. People do need to learn, and want to, stand on their own two feet.How would you go about helping the homeless....I have often thought about that process........just setting up shelters isn't enough to make them capable of standing up on their own.......I would use that money to try to find a way to do that....
There's a really successful program operating in British Columbia which starts out by getting the homeless housed. They start with a small apartment, but just having access to a bathroom, and the physical safety of being off the street, and removing the entire daily stress of where to eat, sleep and bath, allows them to focus on how they got there in the first place.
Most street people have serious health issues which aren't being addressed, and are being made worse by their living situation. Once the basic survival issues are dealt with, health issues come next. They may be in need of detox, or help with other forms of substance abuse. The homeless will need support in dealing with the complexities of the medical system, appointments and testing necessary for underlying physiological problems, and ensuring they follow through with medications and treatment.
Reconnecting these people with family, or even just socially with their neighbours and community. With a home and better health, the individual is now ready to deal with the problems that lead to their breakdown, and can start to restore themselves to a productive life, volunteer work, and finally, a job. Anything to help people make connections, and friends, so there are those who they can connect with, who help look out for them.
As an older person, who has had one heart attack, I have a friend who contacts me every morning at 10:00 am. I have children who contact me several times a week, friends I have lunch with on a weekly basis. I have connections to my family, my chuch, my community. I volunteer at my local library, visit shut-ins, and enjoy gardening, in summer. Just the restoration of a home, a phone, and your health, means you now have the ability to live a normal life.
The group that runs this program said they started out working with the homeless by helping them get cleaned up, medical treatment, find jobs all leading to getting them off the streets and out of the shelters. What they discovered was that if they housed the homeless as the first step, instead of the last, the other steps went more quickly, and their success rate was much higher, so they changed their approach.
... and they'd be lined up for miles if you won $314,000,000.00 ...After taking care of family and charities.....I would be accepting the applications of fashion and lingerie models for the position of Mrs. 2aguy.......
That's sound great, but you can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves. I'll all for helping people that will benefit from help, but there would have to be a way to weed out the bad apples. You just can't help "everyone." Some don't want it, some won't appreciate it, and some will just game the system and figure being helped is a way of life. People do need to learn, and want to, stand on their own two feet.How would you go about helping the homeless....I have often thought about that process........just setting up shelters isn't enough to make them capable of standing up on their own.......I would use that money to try to find a way to do that....
There's a really successful program operating in British Columbia which starts out by getting the homeless housed. They start with a small apartment, but just having access to a bathroom, and the physical safety of being off the street, and removing the entire daily stress of where to eat, sleep and bath, allows them to focus on how they got there in the first place.
Most street people have serious health issues which aren't being addressed, and are being made worse by their living situation. Once the basic survival issues are dealt with, health issues come next. They may be in need of detox, or help with other forms of substance abuse. The homeless will need support in dealing with the complexities of the medical system, appointments and testing necessary for underlying physiological problems, and ensuring they follow through with medications and treatment.
Reconnecting these people with family, or even just socially with their neighbours and community. With a home and better health, the individual is now ready to deal with the problems that lead to their breakdown, and can start to restore themselves to a productive life, volunteer work, and finally, a job. Anything to help people make connections, and friends, so there are those who they can connect with, who help look out for them.
As an older person, who has had one heart attack, I have a friend who contacts me every morning at 10:00 am. I have children who contact me several times a week, friends I have lunch with on a weekly basis. I have connections to my family, my chuch, my community. I volunteer at my local library, visit shut-ins, and enjoy gardening, in summer. Just the restoration of a home, a phone, and your health, means you now have the ability to live a normal life.
The group that runs this program said they started out working with the homeless by helping them get cleaned up, medical treatment, find jobs all leading to getting them off the streets and out of the shelters. What they discovered was that if they housed the homeless as the first step, instead of the last, the other steps went more quickly, and their success rate was much higher, so they changed their approach.
That's sound great, but you can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves. I'll all for helping people that will benefit from help, but there would have to be a way to weed out the bad apples. You just can't help "everyone." Some don't want it, some won't appreciate it, and some will just game the system and figure being helped is a way of life. People do need to learn, and want to, stand on their own two feet.How would you go about helping the homeless....I have often thought about that process........just setting up shelters isn't enough to make them capable of standing up on their own.......I would use that money to try to find a way to do that....
There's a really successful program operating in British Columbia which starts out by getting the homeless housed. They start with a small apartment, but just having access to a bathroom, and the physical safety of being off the street, and removing the entire daily stress of where to eat, sleep and bath, allows them to focus on how they got there in the first place.
Most street people have serious health issues which aren't being addressed, and are being made worse by their living situation. Once the basic survival issues are dealt with, health issues come next. They may be in need of detox, or help with other forms of substance abuse. The homeless will need support in dealing with the complexities of the medical system, appointments and testing necessary for underlying physiological problems, and ensuring they follow through with medications and treatment.
Reconnecting these people with family, or even just socially with their neighbours and community. With a home and better health, the individual is now ready to deal with the problems that lead to their breakdown, and can start to restore themselves to a productive life, volunteer work, and finally, a job. Anything to help people make connections, and friends, so there are those who they can connect with, who help look out for them.
As an older person, who has had one heart attack, I have a friend who contacts me every morning at 10:00 am. I have children who contact me several times a week, friends I have lunch with on a weekly basis. I have connections to my family, my chuch, my community. I volunteer at my local library, visit shut-ins, and enjoy gardening, in summer. Just the restoration of a home, a phone, and your health, means you now have the ability to live a normal life.
The group that runs this program said they started out working with the homeless by helping them get cleaned up, medical treatment, find jobs all leading to getting them off the streets and out of the shelters. What they discovered was that if they housed the homeless as the first step, instead of the last, the other steps went more quickly, and their success rate was much higher, so they changed their approach.
That's sound great, but you can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves. I'll all for helping people that will benefit from help, but there would have to be a way to weed out the bad apples. You just can't help "everyone." Some don't want it, some won't appreciate it, and some will just game the system and figure being helped is a way of life. People do need to learn, and want to, stand on their own two feet.How would you go about helping the homeless....I have often thought about that process........just setting up shelters isn't enough to make them capable of standing up on their own.......I would use that money to try to find a way to do that....
There's a really successful program operating in British Columbia which starts out by getting the homeless housed. They start with a small apartment, but just having access to a bathroom, and the physical safety of being off the street, and removing the entire daily stress of where to eat, sleep and bath, allows them to focus on how they got there in the first place.
Most street people have serious health issues which aren't being addressed, and are being made worse by their living situation. Once the basic survival issues are dealt with, health issues come next. They may be in need of detox, or help with other forms of substance abuse. The homeless will need support in dealing with the complexities of the medical system, appointments and testing necessary for underlying physiological problems, and ensuring they follow through with medications and treatment.
Reconnecting these people with family, or even just socially with their neighbours and community. With a home and better health, the individual is now ready to deal with the problems that lead to their breakdown, and can start to restore themselves to a productive life, volunteer work, and finally, a job. Anything to help people make connections, and friends, so there are those who they can connect with, who help look out for them.
As an older person, who has had one heart attack, I have a friend who contacts me every morning at 10:00 am. I have children who contact me several times a week, friends I have lunch with on a weekly basis. I have connections to my family, my chuch, my community. I volunteer at my local library, visit shut-ins, and enjoy gardening, in summer. Just the restoration of a home, a phone, and your health, means you now have the ability to live a normal life.
The group that runs this program said they started out working with the homeless by helping them get cleaned up, medical treatment, find jobs all leading to getting them off the streets and out of the shelters. What they discovered was that if they housed the homeless as the first step, instead of the last, the other steps went more quickly, and their success rate was much higher, so they changed their approach.
Spoken like a true conservative. We must not help the WRONG people. The problem is that with very damaged people, there is a lot of relapsing. When you talk about gun control, you frequently say gun control laws won't stop all gun murders, and you're right. Gun control laws won't stop ALL killings. But it will stop most of them.
The relapse rate for drug and alcohol abuse is 40 - 60%. I know families who have done everything conceivable to get their loved ones the help and treatment they needed, and they've ended up back on the streets, or worse dead. Drug addicts are more likely to OD after a stint in rehab or a long period of sobriety. That's because they've cleaned up and their last dosage was based on their built up tolerance.
Your psychological testing would be a waste of money. It's not doing to tell you who is more likely to succeed. The Vancouver group said that those who seemed the worst off, and the least likely to benefit, actually had the most success. Those who are coping poorly with the stresses of homelessness, may be the most responsive to the freedom from that stress.
Many of the homeless had mental illlnesses that required medication taken consistently, and once they were properly medicated, they got on track quickly, but the temptation to stop taking the medications once stabilized is always there. Trying to limit your investment to those with the best chance of success, is a fool's errand.
The best programs have a 50% success rate. Many would consider that half the money was being wasted because the recipients failed to get off the street permanently. I'm overjoyed that half of those helped, made the permanent leap back into society.
That's sound great, but you can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves. I'll all for helping people that will benefit from help, but there would have to be a way to weed out the bad apples. You just can't help "everyone." Some don't want it, some won't appreciate it, and some will just game the system and figure being helped is a way of life. People do need to learn, and want to, stand on their own two feet.How would you go about helping the homeless....I have often thought about that process........just setting up shelters isn't enough to make them capable of standing up on their own.......I would use that money to try to find a way to do that....
There's a really successful program operating in British Columbia which starts out by getting the homeless housed. They start with a small apartment, but just having access to a bathroom, and the physical safety of being off the street, and removing the entire daily stress of where to eat, sleep and bath, allows them to focus on how they got there in the first place.
Most street people have serious health issues which aren't being addressed, and are being made worse by their living situation. Once the basic survival issues are dealt with, health issues come next. They may be in need of detox, or help with other forms of substance abuse. The homeless will need support in dealing with the complexities of the medical system, appointments and testing necessary for underlying physiological problems, and ensuring they follow through with medications and treatment.
Reconnecting these people with family, or even just socially with their neighbours and community. With a home and better health, the individual is now ready to deal with the problems that lead to their breakdown, and can start to restore themselves to a productive life, volunteer work, and finally, a job. Anything to help people make connections, and friends, so there are those who they can connect with, who help look out for them.
As an older person, who has had one heart attack, I have a friend who contacts me every morning at 10:00 am. I have children who contact me several times a week, friends I have lunch with on a weekly basis. I have connections to my family, my chuch, my community. I volunteer at my local library, visit shut-ins, and enjoy gardening, in summer. Just the restoration of a home, a phone, and your health, means you now have the ability to live a normal life.
The group that runs this program said they started out working with the homeless by helping them get cleaned up, medical treatment, find jobs all leading to getting them off the streets and out of the shelters. What they discovered was that if they housed the homeless as the first step, instead of the last, the other steps went more quickly, and their success rate was much higher, so they changed their approach.
The other half of that are the addicts...drugs or alcohol...….more often than not, they relapse....multiple times. Some eventually get it, and get clean.....sooner or later. Then there are others that may never get it.
There would have to be certain rules and limits to what or how much can be provided...….or you could spend the whole fortune on a few that never 'get' it.
I don't have to wait to give to St. Jude's. I give every month.After getting myself squared away, St. Jude would be the first thing on my list.
God bless you and the kids who are there always!!!
Holly
Fund distribution may be complicatedMy death benefit trust would be distributed to animal welfare groups around the world. I would have a stipulation that not one cent be used for human beings.
I'm not a constant player because the odds are so horrible, but the fact remains, you can't win if you don't play, and someone is going to win, and even though the odds are so bad, you're odds of winning are the same as everyone else's.
The Mega Millions is up to $314M, and that's usually when I get interested and play. So, question is, what would you do if you won that much money?
For me, I think the smartest thing to do as far as family is concerned is give them a one time lump sum to pay off whatever, and then set up a trust fund for them so whatever else you decided to give them would at least earn interest.
Far as myself, I'd immediately go full bore looking into ways to make money with money. I wouldn't just sit back and do nothing thinking I was going to live off it for the rest of my life. I'd want that money to last in my family forever.
I'm not a constant player because the odds are so horrible, but the fact remains, you can't win if you don't play, and someone is going to win, and even though the odds are so bad, you're odds of winning are the same as everyone else's.
The Mega Millions is up to $314M, and that's usually when I get interested and play. So, question is, what would you do if you won that much money?
For me, I think the smartest thing to do as far as family is concerned is give them a one time lump sum to pay off whatever, and then set up a trust fund for them so whatever else you decided to give them would at least earn interest.
Far as myself, I'd immediately go full bore looking into ways to make money with money. I wouldn't just sit back and do nothing thinking I was going to live off it for the rest of my life. I'd want that money to last in my family forever.
Let’s see...after I win a huge lottery...I'm not a constant player because the odds are so horrible, but the fact remains, you can't win if you don't play, and someone is going to win, and even though the odds are so bad, you're odds of winning are the same as everyone else's.
The Mega Millions is up to $314M, and that's usually when I get interested and play. So, question is, what would you do if you won that much money?
For me, I think the smartest thing to do as far as family is concerned is give them a one time lump sum to pay off whatever, and then set up a trust fund for them so whatever else you decided to give them would at least earn interest.
Far as myself, I'd immediately go full bore looking into ways to make money with money. I wouldn't just sit back and do nothing thinking I was going to live off it for the rest of my life. I'd want that money to last in my family forever.
I'd be on the first plane to VegasI'm not a constant player because the odds are so horrible, but the fact remains, you can't win if you don't play, and someone is going to win, and even though the odds are so bad, you're odds of winning are the same as everyone else's.
The Mega Millions is up to $314M, and that's usually when I get interested and play. So, question is, what would you do if you won that much money?
For me, I think the smartest thing to do as far as family is concerned is give them a one time lump sum to pay off whatever, and then set up a trust fund for them so whatever else you decided to give them would at least earn interest.
Far as myself, I'd immediately go full bore looking into ways to make money with money. I wouldn't just sit back and do nothing thinking I was going to live off it for the rest of my life. I'd want that money to last in my family forever.
I'm not a constant player because the odds are so horrible, but the fact remains, you can't win if you don't play, and someone is going to win, and even though the odds are so bad, you're odds of winning are the same as everyone else's.
The Mega Millions is up to $314M, and that's usually when I get interested and play. So, question is, what would you do if you won that much money?
For me, I think the smartest thing to do as far as family is concerned is give them a one time lump sum to pay off whatever, and then set up a trust fund for them so whatever else you decided to give them would at least earn interest.
Far as myself, I'd immediately go full bore looking into ways to make money with money. I wouldn't just sit back and do nothing thinking I was going to live off it for the rest of my life. I'd want that money to last in my family forever.