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Charakterystyka zjawiska bezdomności w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim
The Characteristics of Homelessness in Warmia-Mazury

Author(s): Elżbieta Suchoń
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: social exclusion; homelessness; poverty; homeless person; marginalization

Summary/Abstract: One of the main tasks of the municipality is to include the development implementation and strategies to solve social problems with regarding the social assistance programs and prevention. The most difficult to solve problem is the homelessness. It has accompanied the society since ever but nowadays it is considered to be the "twenty first century epidemic." There are many causes of homelessness. They include the poverty, evictions, alcoholism and crime. Homelessness is the cause of social exclusion and it is not easy to return to the real social life. Leaving this condition is very difficult and requires painstaking work of a homeless person oneself and overcoming own weaknesses. Many social institutions are involved in providing assistance to the homeless, offering shelters, assistance in job searching, therapeutic help in fighting with addictions and developing individual programs to abandon the homelessness. Intention this article is to show the phenomenon of homelessness that occurres in Warmia-Mazury and the results of implemented programs of getting out people's homelessness.

  • Issue Year: 62/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 115-128
  • Page Count: 14