What is Truancy?

• An unexcused absence from school
• States enact school attendance laws which determine:
• the age at which a child is required to begin attending school
• the age at which a child may legally drop out of school
• the number of unexcused absences which make a student legally truant
• In many states, youth missing more than 10 days of school are required to repeat the entire school year.
• Truancy is a major problem nationwide, yet states do little to prevent it and little to re-engage truant youth.

Source: (Strategies for youth, 2012)

Preventing Truancy

Preventing truancy requires a multifaceted approach that considers the school, the parents, and the youth.

Rather than just punishing truancy with suspension, schools are finding it more effective to develop programs to work with these students. The most effective programs include:

• mentoring
• law enforcement involvement
• communication training
• community involvement

The role of the school starts with clearly communicating attendance policies and upholding them. Schools also need to keep proper records, communicate problems to parents, and work to improve poor conditions in the school. Staff should work to ensure that students are matched with the right teachers and are getting special attention when necessary.

Outside of the school, preventing truancy begins at home, with open communication and problem solving. This will help to determine the cause of the absenteeism. 

If you are the parent of a truant child, talk to school administrators to find ways to solve the problem. In some cases, transferring classrooms or even a new school may help. Rather than just punishing, finding actionable solutions is often effective in reducing truancy.

Source: (Gabbey Amber, 2013)

Bibliography: 

• Strategies for you (2012) Recovered by: https://strategiesforyouth.org/for-police/how-to/how-to-truancy/
• Gabbey, A. (November 21, 2013) Recovered by: https://www.healthline.com/symptom/truancy 

Relevant factors that have influence to be a truant

The factors that contribute to truancy eventually originate from three central areas: the school, the family and the community. The experiences lived by a young person in all these areas will have a strong impact on truancy percentages.

As: Personal Matters, bullying's issues and bad influences around the school or the community of those teenagers.

Source: (Tobin, 2009)

If it is in our hands, we can help to eradicate this problem little by little, because it is affecting our society in a severely way

Source: (SaludAmercia, 2018)

Bibliography: 

• Tobin, L. (2009). Truancy. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/nov/03/bunking-off-school-pupils-truancy
• SaludAmerica. (2018). Solution to truancy and absenteeism with EC Cares [Video].

How can we prevent truancy?

Strategies are needed to keep kids in school and parents aware of what is going on. Because of technology and with the help of computers, students are easier to keep track of and follow than ever before for example with the GPS programs.

Students may stay away from school for a variety of reasons, some may be very simple reasons such as; fear of someone, learning issues, or lack of parental support. Others may be deeper and darker reasons, drug use, abuse, or lack of a parent at home.

This picture demonstrated the police control the truancy students

Source:(Hinger, 2017)

Consequences of Truancy

The truancy need a family Orientation because they inadequate supervision, poor attitude about importance of education poverty, alcohol or drug abuse and uninformed about current state attendance laws. In addition, they need school Influences; population of school, school teaching styles and school does not provide a "safe" environment

The next video demonstrate how can we prevent truancy.

Source: (Parentchannel, 2013)

Bibliography:

Hinger, S. (06th de February de 2017). Obtenido de https://www.mintpressnews.com/racial-disparities-in-student-arrests-becoming-nationwide-epidemic/224643/

Parentchannel, F. l. (17 de julio de 2013). Truancy. Obtenido de https://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/teenagers/school-learning/truancy/

Effects of Houselessness

Generally, houselessness people don't have house, they sleep on the streets or in some shelter which isn't theirs and depends on the helps from the government or solidarity for surviving. Those people live a situation of social discrimination for the extreme poorness.

For the government, they are the families which don't have incomes enough for the basic feed and nutrition. But that's not the only one problem.

The consequences of this situation are complex. The most direct is that a high amount of families don't have access to basics rights, benefits and services. Millions of people aren't fed right, in the worst of the cases, they suffer desnutrition. Also, they aren't incomes enough to take care of their health needs either.

The lost of incomes affects the education of the children too, and the posibilities of work which makes a vicious circle that becomes the needs in the structural poverty in the society. The becoming of poorness derives on the lost of mental skills affecting the society.

This issue can come from the marginalization and desocialization of the people. Consequently, the break of social coexistence that therefore there will be new security issues because the houselessness people could become thiefs as the last option for get the basic needs as food, clothes, money for surviving.

Bibliography:

http://www.uaeh.edu.mx/investigacion/icsa/LI_ProcCogn/Norma_Orte/5.pdf

http://www.uaeh.edu.mx/investigacion/icsa/LI_ProcCogn/Norma_Orte/5.pdf

https://semanariouniversidad.com/opinion/la-indigencia-una-situacin-de-discriminacin-social/

How we can help the Houselessness?

(Geyer, 2012)

We can help Houselessness people in different ways, such as:

Donating money to non-profit organizations whose goal is to help or offer the necessary help for these people.

Likewise not only donate money, but help with clothes or accessories that we do not use but that are in good condition.

donate things so they can recreate, we can be volunteers to encourage them by doing different types of activities that help them get distracted and get a smile.

Find a way to provide them with food and take volunteer doctors to do a medical checkup.

Get and give information about this issue of not having a place for living, sharing data about this to the people in your comunity through sending letters to the newspaper, writting blogs and posting in social media with the purpose to transmit the information of how it is living on the streets is a social problem. So, giving a message about how people can help. (As we are doing right now through this blog😄👍)

As you can tell, even the smallest thing with what a person can help is valid.

(Documentary, 2017)

Bibliography:

Documentary, F. (14 de Julio de 2017). Youtube. Obtenido de Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdT-_co19U

Geyer, S. (06 de Mayo de 2012). 500px. Obtenido de 500px: https://500px.com/photo/7322903/still-raining-still-dreaming-by-stephan-geyer
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/homeless/events/faithcommunities/50-plus-ways.pdf
 http://nationalhomeless.org/taking-action/giving/
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/homeless/events/faithcommunities/50-plus-ways.pdf

What is the houselessness?

They need a house, they need help

From my point of view, houselessness people are those who  have the support of a family, who are complete with the love that each member transmits, however, they have run out of a place to live, a place where capture all the love they carry as a family.

Tandazo, A. (2018) 

The state of being without a house. This is often mistaken for homelessness, which is a psychological issue, rather than one of location.

 
Bibliography:

Kamtre. (February 10, 2010). Urban Dictionary. Obtained from: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=houseless.

Homelessness

Why having a home is an important issue?

Source: ("New report breaks down the number of homeless people in every county in Ireland | JOE.ie", 2018)

"Home has always been a gathering place, shelter, and sanctuary, providing escape from the busyness and intrusiveness of the world." (Allen M, 2016)

Home have diferent symbolic meanings embedded in the physical design of houses and projected onto them by the belief systems within which our lives play out.

But nowdays home has become a more problematic notion, because of everyday encounters with our homeless fellow citizens, home has become a more problematic notion, because of everyday encounters with our homeless fellow citizens.

The Road Home uses a housing first model to help solve the issues of homelessness. 

Source: (The homelessness problem, 2012)

The Road Home UT is an agency that is ocused on providing assistance to homeless and low-income individuals and families. 

This agency wants to reduce and even end chronic homelessness.

"It's time to walk to End Homelessness." (New London Homeless Hospitality Center, 2018)

Bibliography: 

• New report breaks down the number of homeless people in every county in Ireland | JOE.ie. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.joe.ie/news/homeless-people-every-county-ireland-608736
• Allen, M. (2016). OUPblog: Oxford University Press's Academic Insights for the Thinking World. Retrieved from https://blog.oup.com/2016/12/home-place-environment/
• Homeless Hospitality Center --New London, CT. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.nlhhc.org/walk
• TheRoadHomeUT. (2012). The homelessness problem [Video]. United States.