At least 2,250 of Canada’s veterans are homeless due to alcoholism, drugs and mental
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How about you taking your own advice.....
And please try to say something original in your quest for the ever important last word! huh?
And please try to say something original in your quest for the ever important last word! huh?
We are discussing homelessness and veterans (at least until RCS brought up compensation). Do you have anything to add to the discussion or are you simply trying to derail this thread?
Thanks for the detailed reply.
No doubt all the recommendations you mentioned would reduce the likelihood of ending up homeless.
Excuse me for butting in, but is it remotely possible that the reason for homelessness might be lack of compensation? A wise person realizes that many issues are inter connected!
Its part of a complex issue. The reality though is that lots of injured workers are not adequately compensated and very small minority end up on the streets. There are a number of issues at play here but the fact remains (and it's been proven in Medicine Hat) homelessness can be eliminated and really doesn't matter whether you're a vet, a child, male, female, aboriginal or Ukranian.
She was homeless. This is a thread about homelessness. I know you're not particularly bright so please do continue.
Adequate compensation would also help to reduce homelessness. Combine RCS's recommendations which focus on monetary and physical medical needs, and mine covering most of the mental health aspects dealing with addictions, not only of the soldiers themselves but of their spouses, ex-spouses (who would have been married to them while they were serving in the military), their children and adult children so as to improve the soldier's family life and support network, and the more important bases are covered.
Even that still leaves us with a few gaps, mental health problems unrelated to addictions being one of them.
As for the military ombudsman, he should even have a research budget and exploratory powers along with the power to make recommendations on improving legislation.
Some might say that that is too much power. What if the Ombudsman goes too far in his recommendations?
I say so what. They'd only be recomendations. But by allowing him to make such recommendations, at least he provides food for thought to politicians. Even if some of his recommendations might be wrong-headed, some might be brilliant and might she'd light on overlooked matters.
On the matter of homelessness generally, any improvements to the military safety net could always be studied to see how it could be extended to the general population, especially indigenous, PTSD being one big commonality between them, especially with regards to transgenerational trauma through family violence.
I'm not convinced. Since mental health issues and substance abuse are "the" major issue when it comes to homelessness, I fail to see how giving more money is beneficial. It will just delay the inevitable outcome without proper intervention
Upon reviewing the O.P. I didn't see any mention of Medicine Hat, so I'm wondering why Medicine Hat was mentioned here, as it very likely has nothing to do with the issues. A bright person might detect that!
The title of the thread for Dummies.... read the underlined!
[At least 2,250 of Canada’s veterans are homeless due to alcoholism, drugs and mental]
You have a reading comprehension problem?You keep trying to change the narrative of every thread to what you want to talk about
And you wonder why we all think you're a bloody Jerk
Lack of money can drive a person to the streets even without any mental health problem. In those cases, adequate financial compensation helps.
As for addictions, yes, they can cause a person to spend his way into homelessness, and more money will only feed the addiction.
And the mentally ill soldier will need a different kind of support, maybe even someone else holding the purse strings to his money until he recovers. But the needs of the mentally healthy but just undercompensated sodier will be different. He can better be trusted to hold the strings to his own purse, but his problem is that there is no money in the purse to spend. Separate problems, but both need to be addressed since both can lead to homelessness.
Do you wish to discuss the topic of this thread or do you want to discuss me. Perhaps you and all the other folks I've embarrassed could start a thread about me and you can take your circle jerk hatefest there and leave these threads for the topic at hand. Just because you don't see a connection between homelessness in the general population and homelessness in the veteran population, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I'm sorry that that bothers you but some day you might get over it
Sorry, but causes of homelessness among physically injured soldiers are the same as for physically injured miners.
And homelessness caused by addiction among soldiers (and probably some of their children) is the same as with indigenous Canadians: PTSD (and transgenerational trauma in the case of their children).
And then what about soldiers whose health problem is genetic? Should we kick him to the curb because it's not combat related? How would that differ from his civilian counterpart? It's all interrelated.
Of course but that is not a significant problem. Mental health issues are and handing over dollars to people with mental health issues is counter productive
A bright person would realize that has NOTHING to do with the issues here. I'd wager that British Properties doesn't have any homelessness either.
Sometimes!
