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Homeless Children
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The Homeless Children’s Project ensures availability and access to preventive and primary health care for children and their families who are at risk of being homeless with a focus on Latino children and their families. Clinical services are delivered at La Clinica de Buena Salud located at La Villa de Clara Vista apartments. An outreach component ... provides home visits, health education, and related services to families as well as contact with other agencies. The project also provides basic preventive, diagnostic and treatment services which include: well-child exams, immunizations, lead screenings, prenatal care, family planning, WIC, communicable disease screening, care of acute and chronic medical conditions.
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Homeless Children defines the specific problems and needs of homeless children, and draws up practical guidelines for staff and agencies on recognising and dealing with those problems. It then looks at policy and service development for homeless families in education health and social care, and concludes that conventional methods of provision have to be adapted to meet the specific needs of this vulnerable group.
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The Homeless Children and Youth Program is funded by the McKinney-Vento sub-grant through the Georgia Department of Education. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act was reauthorized in 2001 under No Child Left Behind. It ensures educational rights and protection for children and youth experiencing homelessness. Educational stability for the homeless child is a key element of McKinney-Vento.
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In the early 90's estimates for the number of homeless children, not including runaways, in the United States ranged from 68,000 to over 750,000 depending upon who is counting (Linehan, 1992; Wells, 1990). The most commonly quoted number was 450,000.
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These homeless children represented a profound crisis for the Bolshevik government. They roamed the country alone and in groups, often following rail arteries to Moscow, Rostov-on-the-Don, Samara, Saratov, Tashkent, and other cities. Seemingly omnipresent waifs begged for food in train stations and other public places. Most resorted to stealing, petty crimes, and prostitution. The state sent children to special homes (detdoma), long-term boarding institutions run by the Commissariat of Enlightenment (Narkompros). Initially intended to offer programs capable of instilling in the waifs an instinct for the collective and preparing them to join the ranks of the proletariat, these children's homes were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of homeless children.
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Poor health for homeless children begins at birth; they are more likely to have low birth rates and are four times more likely than other children to need special care right after birth. Their numerous health problems impair their development. Poor nutrition and poverty exacerbate illness and disability. Homeless children are more likely than housed children to suffer from chronic illnesses such as cardiac disease, neurological disorders, and asthma. Children without a home are in fair or poor health twice as often as other children, and have higher rates of ear infections and lead levels. They are twice as likely to experience hunger, four times as likely to have asthma, respiratory infections and delayed development, five times as likely to suffer from intestinal infections, and six times as likely to experience speech and stuttering problems.
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