[][]Option 2: Outreach Plan Presentation Discuss your hometown communities as a team. Identify three underserved populations from those communities that your team...
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out-reachpresentation.pptxOut reach plans, each specific to a different special population
The elderly
Alone
Frail
Disabled
Weak
Poor
Lonely
With aging comes many challenges the elderly faces. The lost of being self-sufficient, suffering from some sort of illness/disease, or has lost all physical abilities can be a hard hit for many people to come to terms with, and on top of all that many of the elderly are targets for discrimination, and stereotyping. Many people look-down on the elderly because they may think they no loner have much to over the world, but just like any other individual that goes through hardship, all they need is a helping hand up to keep going in life. Today more elderly are living longer, healthier and are more self-sufficient than ever before. What is the reason for this? What had changed to cause a reduction in poverty among the elderly? What social patterns contributed to the shift? For several decades, a greater number of women joined the workforce. More married couples earned double incomes during their working years and saved more money for their retirement. Private employers and governments began offering better retirement programs. By 1990, senior citizens reported earning 36 percent more income on average than they did in 1980; that was five times the rate of increase for people under age 35 (U.S. Census Bureau 2009).
In addition, many people were gaining access to better health care. New trends encouraged people to live more healthful lifestyles, placing an emphasis on exercise and nutrition. There was also greater access to information about the health risks of behaviors such as cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug use. Because they were healthier, many older people continue to work past the typical retirement age, providing more opportunity to save for retirement. Although many more elderly are living longer and are still living productive lives through working and maintaining good health, I think the out reach plan should also consist of free transportation, bigger discounts, and free medical.
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Out reach plans, each specific to a different special population Disabled veterans with special needs
Wounded
Mentally ill
Aging, frail, Veteran
There are many veterans that are returning home physically free but their mind may not. Many have experienced close to death, and have lost friends/soldiers in the war, this can be very traumatizing. Disabled veterans should be fully compensated, they should not have to worry housing, food, or medical. There should be grants in place that never runs out of funding. Programs need to always be established to help those to cope with all they had to endure. Free counseling and rehabilitation should be provided on site and once they are discharged from their services. Free health care facilities, and care givers should always be available for them. Making provision for our service men and women who fought for our country should not have to pay taxes, because they put their lives on the line, and America owes it to them to take care of them for all they have done. No veteran should be homeless or jobless in America. The out reach plan would be to help the veteran to cope back into society by making sure all the programs that are provided for them, are working in their best interest.
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Out reach plan, each specific to a different special population
Homelessness In America
In need of shelter
Need of food
Need of clean clothes
Need of a job
Financial hardship
Help with medical
Lack of resources
In need of transportation
Our government, human service professionals, and activist are doing a good job at trying to help make provision for the homeless, but I believe more can continue to be done on behalf of homelessness, such as million of dollars goes out to rescue animals and build shelters for them, instead I think that money should go towards building more shelters and creating more programs to help those that are in hardship or have lost their way in life, so they may be restored back into society. Just like the average person need to eat food, wash their bodies, and receive medical help, the same necessities apply to many homeless people who are in need of these everyday assistances. Some people may think of homeless people as free-loaders who don’t want to work because they want a free ride in life, but that is not the case with many people who are homeless. Many may have just lost a job, and was thrown out of their home because they couldn’t pay the rent. Some are living out of their car, with children and finding it hard adapt so they fall deeper into the depression of it all. The plan should be, continue reaching out to them through counseling and group sessions to help with interventions. Provide training and resume building, home allowance, welfare to help with medical and food supply. Many of these people are not just looking for a hand-out but for a hand-up that will help them to regaing self sufficiency, and confidence from within themselves.
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