We watched a very interesting video on children in homelessness near Disneyland. Hearing them speak about their situations was interesting, I didn’t think they would completely comprehend what was happening to them. I wasn’t thinking about them in the same situation, only thinking it affected the parents. I remember one of the younger girls speaking on her paranoia and she was scared that she would picked up by someone but she had never been taken. That made me realize and think more about psychological problems faced I am in a child psychology class and my professor was telling the class that when children are diagnosed younger, it tends to be more serve and reoccur at some point in their life. The likelihood is higher for these children because of the environment they are in and if their parents are dealing with mental illness as well. I was inspired by the people who created and working at the school for these children.

The idea of camps is very interesting and quite helpful giving them a community, but a few concerns came about. Even though this idea is great and has so much potential, its disconnecting them from the rest of community but also giving them a space they feel comfortable in. I think idea of the camps is low cost and more eco friendly. I am surprised there isn’t more of these and promoted more. I feel like it should be one of the ideas for Redlands since cost is a problem to the counsel here.