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The Invisible Problem

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  • With 58,000+ students, including 15 to 20 UCF students, homeless in the United States today, university homelessness is NOT a problem we can ignore!
  • How do we fix this? We make the invisible visible - Raise awareness!
  • GET INVOLVED!
  • Student Care Services
  • Knights Helping Knights Food Pantry
  • HOPE Helps
  • Covenant House

Solutions, part 1

Solutions, part 2

The roots of the problem

  • Awareness is low
  • 2008 recession ~ parents lost job and can't support student, harder to get student jobs

  • Rising tuition

- According to CollegeBoard.org, there has been a 3.6% increase in room and board costs between 2014 and 2015

  • Financial aid delayed
  • Student may struggle to be recognized as "independent," which would provide them with financial aid

What is homelessness among American college students?

The problem

- Unpacking the word "homeless"

- Why is this problem "invisible"?

- Nationally, about 58,000 students in the United States are homeless.

  • From 2010-2013, there was a 75% increase in homeless college students
  • According to Barbara Duffield, director of policy and programs at National Association for Education of Homeless Children and Youth, calls to NAEHCY hotline have increased in recent years

How is it harmful?

Individually:

Examples

- Kait Moorman of Auburn University

- Danae Vachata, hoped to attend Louisiana State

“...students' homelessness is motivating them to get out of homelessness, to concentrate on their studies, to be as successful as possible. These are students you want on your campus, that you want to do everything you can to support them; you shouldn't be trying to close your doors to them."

~ Eric Tars, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty’s senior attorney

At a University- and Society-level:

- Safety on campus (theft)

- lack of these motivated students

contributing to the university,

and to society (financially,

socially, professionally)

Why does it matter?

- More homeless students results in fewer financially-stable members contributing to society

It is close to home, affecting Central Florida, SSC and UCF

  • Florida is the second-highest U.S. state for chronic homelessness
  • Orlando is worst area for homelessness in midsized metropolitan areas

Examples:

- SSC admissions director and psychology professor Angela Adame-Smith's dissertation: "Lived Experience of Homeless College Students"

- UCF professor Amy Donley, associate professor of Sociology

- UCF Biology professor Pam Thomas - 12 students in her

classes in past 3 years

Student Care Services

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