WorksheetsPREVENT HOMELESSNESS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
How can homelessness impact schools
Let homeless people in school
The community is you can help a homeless student that can’t eat at home so the school provides meals
Being homeless affects children's education, causes health problems
A homeless child faces rather discouraging barriers to his or her academic success
How many homeless people don't attend school
5 million per year
3.5 million per year
2 million per year
1.5 million per year
How many homeless people need help to provide school
Too many recent college graduates feel the weight of their student loan payments holding them back from fulfilling their full potential
UNITED STATES it can help by going to school and getting an education and graduate and get a job and be successful
College graduates with a bachelor's degree typically earn 66 percent more than those with only a high school diploma; and are also far less likely to face unemployment
Over the course of a lifetime, the average worker with a bachelor's degree will earn approximately $1 million more than a worker without a postsecondary education
How much money do we need to pay for schools
$14,464 per public school student enrolled
$13,903 per public school student enrolled
$13,847 per public school student enrolled
$14,980 per public school student enrolled
How can we help donate to the homeless
Sponsor an Event
Mail a Anonymous Check
Get a loan from the bank
Sponsor a Fundraiser
How can homeless impact society
It impacts the availability of healthcare resources, crime and safety,the workforce, and the use of tax dollar
Homelessness impacts the present as well as the future
It benefits all of us to break the cycle of homelessness, one person, one family at a time
Homelessness is a growing problem that negatively impacts the nation's economic competitiveness
How does homelessness start
68% of the cities reporting in the 2010 Mayor’s Report, had to turn away homeless families with children because of a lack of available shelter beds
42% of homeless children are under the age of 6
2 million additional American children will fall victim to the foreclosure crisis over the next two years
More than 15% of Americans live in poverty, including one in five children (22%), the highest rate in the industrialized world
Where does homelessness happen
Florida
California
New York
All of the Above
How to stop homelessness
The government has tried to tackle the problem of homelessness on nearly every level, but comprehensive solutions have proven elusive, despite billions spent over time
The federal government has set a series of goals of ending homelessness for veterans by 2015, chronic homelessness by 2017, and homelessness for families with children and youth by 2020
Seemingly every policy group that works on this issue has ideas about how to solve it for good
All of the above
How to provide shelter for homelessness
Once we engage homeless individuals, including youth and families with children
We stay with them for as long as it takes to return them to self-sufficiency
To prevent and end homelessness through a range of support services including eviction prevention, emergency services, transitional housing and permanent affordable housing
To just give them money and send them to live somewhere
