Unique Individuals

         Homeless people wandering the street of the United States have different backgrounds that is why it is important to look at each case individually. Understanding what led them to become homeless will be key to find a way to help them and prevent many others from becoming one of them. Among the causes are drug abuse, abusive home environment, a traumatic experience or mental illness and making poor financial decisions. Most of them can be prevented with a better preparation of individuals to face the challenges that life might bring along. It is governments duty to look after those whom they represent by providing them with health care and a good education but individuals should also be responsible of themselves and their loved ones by asking for help when needed. Individuals should take advantage of the services provided and get informed health issues.

            Drug abuse is a big cause for individuals to lose hope for a better life and lose everything including their families. This particular group of individuals represent a bigger problem than being homeless as they can contract many diseases and spread them by sharing needles. They can also be threat to other people because of the violent behavior many of them might experience when under the influence of drugs or when they feel the need for it but can’t get it. A better education on drug abuse at an early age combined with family support could have prevented many of them from getting to that point. The only way to make these individuals an input for society is to force them into treatment and keep track of them to make sure treatment worked.

            Making poor financial decisions led many people to lose their homes, and everything they had and some of them did not find a way to get back the life they used to have. Hopeless they made the streets their homes and the bridges their refuge, keeping them safe from the rain, snow, or the heat. They have to be accounted for their own failure but government and family should also take the blame for not providing them with the guidance to make better decisions or the support to overcome failure. High school is a perfect time to inform students about the way economy works like understanding credit, loans and consumerism instead of just memorizing a few definitions and draw supply and demand graphs.

              Many of the individuals wandering the streets are affected by a mental illness or were victims of a traumatic experience. For individuals with a mental disease, family and government have to be accounted responsible for not providing the support and services needed. More mental health institutions need to be opened to provide care and treatments for those who need it. Someone with a mental issue will very likely not accept the need for help and that is why they must be persuaded and force into treatment. Family plays a key role by providing the moral support and love needed by those under treatment that is why they must get involved. More information about mental issues must be provided to make sure people showing the symptoms get treated as soon as possible.

               Solving the problem of having too many homeless people requires the cooperation from the public and families with government to provide the help needed in the best possible way. Taking a different approach according to the circumstances that led that particular induvial to become homeless is the best way to do it because will meet that person’s particular needs and recovery can be more successful. The goal should be to make of them functional individuals that contribute to society and economy and that’s why the must feel like they are part of it and that they can still have an input on it.