Caring for the Vulnerable Population in my Community
In my community, there are people who are homeless; they happen to be vulnerable; they are characterized by having a deficiency in assessing services such as food, shelter, security, and health care (White & Newman,2015). Many of the homeless people have suffered from body dysfunctions since they don’t have access to proper nutrition and health care as it is supposed to be for normal people. The homeless get affected by diseases that are involved with colds such as pneumonia that as killed many people, especially during the cold season. The homeless lack housing; this has made them live the in the streets where they are suffering from colds. Through these poor states of living, they have been involved in inhuman actions so that they can survive in the streets.
Many of the homeless people have indulged themselves in the usage of hard drugs such as weed, spirit, and glue so that they can have hallucinations of self-satisfaction on their wellbeing. The usage of hard drugs has resulted in the loss of lives, and other lose their memories and go mad. Hard drugs as they sue them as their normal usage has set many of the homeless people to acquire contagious diseases such as HIV which leads to the deaths (Miller,2015). The usage of drugs has a big impact on the health the homeless and their stay in the streets so that they can help them forget their current situation which is not a normal health condition for a normal human being.
The homes have to go hard in the extent they get involved in stealing other people’s property so that they can survive. In most cases when they have stolen they get treated harshly by the mob this results to killings and others who get fortunate to be rescued by the police get convicted by the law. Through such treats the homeless find tough times to survive the harsh life that will land them in places that they never expected in their line of looking for something they should eat.
The homeless are said to be vulnerable because they are exposed to dangers and they are not cared for like other normal human beings. They can lose their lives at any instance since they are not protected from lack of basic needs and acquisition of other amenities that a normal human being should have (Miller,2015). The homeless suffer mentally and depression since they don’t know what the next day holds. The dangers that they are facing is huge that they do not get support from any wing of human support, nor does the government support them as unprivileged persons.
The homeless is said to be vulnerable since even I the court systems, they are served with injustice in any case they are judged with a case. In the courtrooms, they can be unfairly judged because they may lack disposition. If a homeless person is being arrested with a planted drug such as cocaine there is nobody will say that a homeless person cannot do hard drugs (Stanhop, Faan, Lancaster, et al.,2019) This will be a disadvantage end that they get served with a lot of stigmatization yet they are normal human beings. The assumptions on homeless people have led them to suffer mentally and have a little home to life since they have no support either from the law nor trust from people.
Question 3
As an advocate, the culture will influence my decisions and perceptions of homeless people as people who can do anything so that they can survive in the streets (Fisher-Borne, Cain & Martin,2015). The homeless can do many things so that they can have the food to eat since they have no source of provision. Through my culture and understanding, I can take it that it is all human, and they can do anything for their survival, but it would be not all the time the homeless are in the wrong end (Gorski,2016). The approach to situations has made the breakthrough of making things work for the less fortunate in the community.
I found out later that I have bias over my judgments over the homeless and the culture of my community over the wrongdoings that are happening in the community. This is because every person can commit a crime and has the capability of doing things wrong for their self-gain (Dzeng, Colaianni, Roland, et al.,2015). Earlier on, I was not aware that I was biased over the situation that I was in in my poor judgment that I based in my culture.
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