{"id":2221,"date":"2018-03-12T04:32:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T04:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2018-07-31T21:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T21:23:40","slug":"blog-post-7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #7"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span><\/span>his week I learned a lot more about different types of services around the inland empire and LA county. Family services, women’s shelters, childcare, and what they offer in programs, their history, the language they <\/span><\/span>use. I also learned more about how to explain my own <\/span><\/span>experiences<\/span><\/span> and to<\/span><\/span> look out for the smaller things. I want to <\/span><\/span>learn\u00a0<\/span><\/span>how<\/span><\/span> individuals keep <\/span><\/span>themselves<\/span><\/span> motivated through the programs that are <\/span><\/span>offered. I not only learned from the presentations, but from the readings about looking at <\/span><\/span>homelessness<\/span><\/span> from a different <\/span><\/span>perspective. At a <\/span><\/span>workshop I was in, we talked about a celebrity who spent a <\/span><\/span>time\u00a0<\/span><\/span>on<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Skid Row<\/span><\/span>\u00a0filming a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>documentary<\/span><\/span>\u00a0showing the life there and how different that was compared to those in a different area, the woman who <\/span><\/span>men<\/span><\/span>tioned<\/span><\/span> it also talked about\u00a0<\/span><\/span>making <\/span><\/span>her own<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>YouTube<\/span><\/span> channel<\/span><\/span> about being homeless and surviving. <\/span><\/span>It was one of the moments where I realized the different situations people who were <\/span><\/span>homeless<\/span><\/span> were in, and how much they simply wanted to be heard. Then the readings made me question how much truth needed to be taught before the public really focused on the problems that contributed to becoming <\/span><\/span>homeless<\/span><\/span>. How much exposure on <\/span><\/span>homelessness<\/span><\/span> is necessary<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>before <\/span><\/span>the problem becomes <\/span><\/span>dire, and<\/span><\/span> is inescapably in need of a reaction from <\/span><\/span>government. I<\/span><\/span> think the woman was on track when she <\/span><\/span>stress<\/span><\/span> the need to inform the public that not all <\/span><\/span>homeless<\/span><\/span> are on drugs and lazy. It got me to thinking about a few questions, <\/span><\/span>like:\u00a0<\/span><\/span>W<\/span><\/span>hen<\/span><\/span> does media really <\/span><\/span>acknowledge<\/span><\/span> homelessness<\/span><\/span>? Without the <\/span><\/span>help<\/span><\/span> of the required readings <\/span><\/span>of this <\/span><\/span>course <\/span><\/span>on <\/span><\/span>different situations of <\/span><\/span>homelessness<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>would <\/span><\/span>I k<\/span><\/span>now<\/span><\/span> or <\/span><\/span>real<\/span><\/span>ize<\/span><\/span> what is happening <\/span><\/span>in the community<\/span><\/span>?<\/span><\/span> For <\/span><\/span>instance,<\/span><\/span> the employees at <\/span><\/span>Disneyland<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>W<\/span><\/span>hy have <\/span><\/span>activist<\/span><\/span> movements to end <\/span><\/span>homelessness<\/span><\/span> not been a success? Why haven’t the means we are taking now not worked<\/span><\/span>\u00a0as efficiently<\/span><\/span>? <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I learned a lot more about different types of services around the inland empire and LA county. Family services, women’s shelters, childcare, and what they offer in programs, their history, the language they use. I also learned more about how to explain my own experiences and to look out for the smaller things. … Continue reading Blog Post #7<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-zP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}