Topic: Family Health and Wellbeing
Author: Forum Administrator | Posted: 31 Jul 2003 |
How can the effects of alcohol abuse on homelessness be reduced?
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Topic: Re: Family Health and Wellbeing
Author: Steve Kitchener | Posted: 25 Aug 2003 |
support for crisis accomadation services especially in regional areas could reduce the incidence of homelessness
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Topic: Re: Family Health and Wellbeing
Author: Christa Bidgood | Posted: 25 Aug 2003 |
Homelessnes is only too often the result of deminished living skills as a result of alcohol and drug s on the human brain's capacity to think for itself. Sometimes the damage is irreversible and when there is brain shut down the human being can no longer resource himself to
the requirements to look after themselves. For me this was paramount and I had with me three children. No one understood my alcoholism or addiction
professionals and welfare workers simply thought me demented and selfish and someone who would not conform to the requirements. No one realised that through my alcoholism I was rendered totally helpless. If you offered me a home I would abuse it. I could not manage the money for the rent or the electricity because my need to drink and drug was greater. My mind was gone.
What do we do? We offer temporary accommodation, assess the problem and condition the client to certain action
assisting him to resolve the problem and establish a home for himself if still possible. For those whose minds have completely left them we as a community and society are responsible to feed them shelter and cloth them and offer comfort and care and this could be sometimes for the rest of their natural life. thank God my family, parents who birthed three alcoholic children learn't about the disease of alcoholism and addiction and cared for me from the age of 38 years, long enough for me to get sober and learn to stand on my own two feet. Hence I was able to do the same with my son who became alcoholic at the age of 14 years by the time he was 15 he
was on the streets and had acquired a criminal record. Today he is with his partner with two children at the age of 25 years and Manager of a butcher shop. He too was homeless and on the street as a juvenile. He was unteachable at school rebellious and violent. What happened? I found AA and NA and also
Al-anon which taught me to what to do and what not to do. I believe this saved his life. An alcoholic and
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Topic: Re: Family Health and Wellbeing
Author: Ana Corpuz | Posted: 29 Aug 2003 |
School curriculum should include educating young people on how to analyse advertisements about all products that are potentially harmful to their health. Since we can not regulate fully the advertising industry, one thing we can change is how they are picked up by young people. If kids are better equipped to analyse these messages, they will not easily be lulled into using them. They can apply their skills and make wiser decisions about these products. SAme goes for any material they see on the Internet, TV, movies etc. I think this is called CONSUMER EDUCATION.
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