Menu Item 6 Reflective Essay

Bryan Murr

For my sixth menu item, I chose to look at the Strategic Action

Plan on Homelessness from the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, which can be found online at www.hhs.gov. I will use
this plan to get a good view of what the United States government
believes about homelessness. This is a very reputable source, and it
will useful because it provides many statistics about homelessness,
and it provides many problems and solutions as well.
The Strategic Action Plan on Homelessness consists of four
major goals. Those are to prevent episodes of homelessness, to help
the eligible homeless to receive health and social services, to help
state and community organizations with their efforts in fighting
homeless, and to develop a process for tracking homeless and
ultimately to end homelessness. This proposal goes on to state a few
strategies for accomplishing each of these problems. This proposal also
gives many shocking statistics such as, 2-3 million people will
experience a night of homelessness in the U.S. this year, and at least
800,000 people are homeless on any given night! There are also
many tables and graphs of the governments spending on fighting
homelessness.
In conclusion, I will use this plan to get a good view from what
the government believes about homelessness. There is no question
that the U.S. government wants to cut down (and hopefully eliminate)

homelessness. This plan has also given me the idea to do more

research on whether or not it is the governments job to use taxpayer
money to help the homeless. This plan obviously shows that the
government wants to help the homeless.