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| a situation of hardship and struggle; it may be transient or episodic and can result from lack of employment, lack of education, domestic violence, or similar issues. These issues can lead to persistent poverty |
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| effort to move long-term psychiatric patients out of the hospital and back into their own community |
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| Federal Income Poverty Guidlines |
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| a definition of poverty drafted by the SS Admin. in 1964. the federal gov define poverty in terms of income, family size, the age of the head of household, and the number of children younger than 18 years. the guidelines change annually to be consistent with the consumer price index |
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| the fed gov defines a homeless as one who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate address or has a primary nighttime residence in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter for temporary accommodations |
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| refers to having insufficient financial resources to meet basic living expenses. these expenses include cost of food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and medical care |
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| refers to ind. and families who remain poor for long periods |
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| stewart b. Mckinney homeless Assistance Act |
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| pub. law 100-77 passed in 1987 officially involved the federal gov in meeting the needs of homeless persons. it was intended to respond to the range of emergency needs facing homeless americans, such as food, shelter, and health care |
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| a special supplemental food program administered by the DoA through the st health departments; it provides nutritious foods that add to the diests of pregnant and nursing women, infants, and children younger than 5 years. eligibility is based on income and nutritional risk as determined by a health professional |
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| termination of pregnancy by spontaneous or induced expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation |
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| the action of taking a child by choice into a relationship; to take voluntary as one's own child |
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| a condition characterized by preoccupation and extreme dependency (emotional, socially, and sometimes physically) on a person. Eventually this dependence on another person becomes pathological condition that affect the person in all his or her relationships |
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| drugs from different categories used together or at different times to regulate how the person feels |
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| physical and psychological symptoms that occur when a drug upon which a person is dependence is removed |
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| a pattern of abuse characterized by an overwhelming preoccupation with the use (compulsive use) of a drug and securing its supply; and a high tendency for relapse if the drug is removed |
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| physiological change in the CNS as a result of chronic drug use |
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| active forms of maltx of children |
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| a form of family violence against older members. it may include neglect and failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, and physical safety needs; it can also include roughness in care and actual violent behavior toward the elderly |
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| physical, emotional, or sexual mistx of a partner or former partner |
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| (also harm mim): a public health approach to substance abuse problems. this approach acknowledges, without judgement, that licit and illicitly drug use is a reality, and the focus of interventions is to min. these drugs' harmful effects rather than to simply ignore or condemn them; also to facilitate responsible use of substances |
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| smoke that comes off a cigarette from the outside rather than being drawn through the cigarette |
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