Blog: 18 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is the best way to help homeless youth break the cycle of homelessness?
2. In order for homeless youth to break the cycle of homelessness, I believe they should have a strong significant role model who has good character
3.

• It just takes one person to believe in a child in order for them to succeed
• Parents are a child's first role model. Children who have parents who show good morale such as never giving up, always do good to others, etc. almost always follow in their parent's footsteps
• If a parent seems do not meet these standards, children should not be completely alone either, they should have someone in their life to show that they care, and have faith that the child can turn their life around or make their situation better than it is

4. http://www.bigsnyc.org/a-history.php

5. I plan to study more cases of the "Big Brother, Big Sister" organization

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to help homeless youth end the cycle of homelessness?
2. What do you believe are the main factors that lead children to become homeless?
3. What organizations are available to homeless youth to help them get back on their feet?
4. Why do you believe that children who have been on the street, but are able to get off of it for a period of time, have a higher or lower chance of living on the street again?
5. How effective do you believe transitional living programs are?
6. Please tell me of any stories of homeless youth who have undergone transitional living programs?
7. Why do you believe the homeless youth who undergo these transitional living programs either regress back to living on the streets, or are able to stay off of them?
8. What is your opinion on homeless youth attending counseling sessions? Why?
9. How do you believe homeless children are affected by having some form of shelter while they are living on the streets, regardless of the shelter's stability, durability, etc? Why?
10.  If a homeless child is placed in an environment where children who are not homeless are present (such as a school) how do you believe this will affect the homeless child?
11. Why do you believe that some people may say that there are some cases of children who would actually be better off living on the streets than trying to get off of them? What is your personal opinion about this statement?
12. How important do you believe it is for homeless youth to be in school?
13. What benefits can homeless youth gain from being in school?
14. How can we help homeless youth be less truant to school?
15. If a homeless child has missed school and social interactions due to moving around a lot, how hard do you believe it is to integrate the child back into school?
16. What special programs or organizations specifically geared towards helping homeless youth succeed in school do you know of? How do these programs help these children?
17. What struggles do you think homeless youth face in school as opposed to those who are not homeless?
18. How do you feel about homeless youth wanting to get off the street on their own (without enlisting the help of others to do so)?
19. How do you believe we can motivate homeless youth to want to get off the streets?
20. What do you believe is the number one thing homeless youth, or people who were once homeless youth, NOT do in order to not regress to living on the streets?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. What is the best way to help homeless youth end the cycle of homelessness?

2. Educating the children/ teaching them a specific trade will be my second answer to my EQ.

3.

• At public schools, due to the NECAC Act, homeless children can now have a variety of different resources available to them such as free lunches, therapists, and specialists in mental disorders
• They will be able to make more money to provide for themselves due to earning a degree (high school degree, bachelor degree, etc.)
• It exposes them to opportunities and the world beyond homelessness

4. Unknown. "Increasing Access to Higher Education for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth: Information for Colleges and Universities." N.p., n.d. Web.

5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by researching more articles on homeless children who have gone to college, or have gotten job.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. For my second independent component, I plan on hosting art classes and events for the children at URM. The activities will have different themes such as: Who is your hero? What is your favorite memory? What do you want to be when you grow up? etc. I also have an idea of getting other people who know particular trades to volunteer their time to teach it to the children (kind of like a free talent of the masters). I then want to convert the MPR into a gallery of all the kids' artworks and stories, to show to anyone who wants to see. (Ivy Jordan also suggested she'd help me with the creation of the gallery).

2. This will meet the 30 hours of required work because I will not only be volunteering at URM more, but I will also have to do a lot of planning and assembling for the gallery.

3. This relates to my working EQ because my next answer to my EQ was going to be education/ teaching the children a specific trade, so that way they can have a strong educational foundation or skill that will keep them from having to return to the streets again.