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this can be half or little less than half a page!!!1. Gives you other examples and models of how your peers responded to a prompt. 2. Reinforces whether you completed the assignment according to the prompt. 3. Affirms through your peers comments or your reading of peers work which areas of the assignment you are most successful in and which might need more attention. 4. Gives you the opportunity to practice the skills of working with others and providing constructive feedback.5. Clarifies your own knowledge through teaching others. Some notes and clarifications about peer review: 1. It is not your job to proofread and edit your peers work. Point out repeated grammar errors if you see them and make sure to look them up to clarify your own sense of the correction before correcting a peer. 2. Follow Netiquette and be kind and constructive, but dont provide empty compliments. Follow your instincts and be honest with your peers. If you think they may have misinterpreted the assignment, check the prompt, and suggest that they ask the instructor- or clarify with the instructor yourself first. 3.Do not rely on your peer as you would an instructor or expect them to catch every problem with your draft. Peer review cannot replace the guidance of a trained tutor or instructor. 4. Sometimes you may not get the guidance you hoped for from your peers, or you may feel you do a lot more helping than being helped. In some cases your gift in this exercise is to help others- and believe it or not, we learn and grow most when we teach others.5. Even after a great peer review session, you should review your own draft using the rubric as guidance. This is the same rubric that is used by the instructor to grade your final essay. Peer review PDF attached below!! sreng104researchdrafthomeless__2_.pdf Unformatted Attachment Preview Suzette Rodriguez Rodriguez 1 Professor Mitchell-Marell English 104 21 May 2020 ​Facing Homeless with Mental Illness: A Growing Concern and Call for Resolve Living throughout Los Angeles can expose you to a wide range of people and situations. Something I had realized in my travels and where I laid my hat in the past 26 years of my existence, there was an occurring theme even in the wealthiest of places- a prevalence of poverty and homelessness. According to the US Census and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2019 press release, state and local planning agencies reported “on a single night in January, 567,715 people were homeless.’’ (US Census Bureau, 2019) That’s over half a million people without a safe stability during the colder months, in a first-world country. I had always wondered why and how one got to the point physically and mentally, where they were at that time in place. I had come to learn through many of my own experiences in the city, and through research led by psychiatric professionals such as Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and through the minds of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation how predominant mental illness had been in studies of the population of the homeless. My initial thoughts on the subject had turned to concern as I began to ask-what is being done to help these people thrive in their lives? Is there hope in strides of progress in funding for facilities and programs that can assist the homeless, let alone the homeless mentally ill? Are we providing enough care for better mental health? There is a crave to dig deeper on how we can further improve funding to increase Rodriguez 2 more outreach programs for mental health, in-turn decreasing the amount of citizens struggling with mental health on the streets. I was fortunate with a family always managing to make it by and keeping me and my brother fed; regardless of unfortunate circumstances we had experienced, we always had family to live with. But there was always a looming fear I had for not having a place to call home. I’d look on as my mom would drive past the tents on the freeways and the beggars holding signs on street corners; some would be volatile if rejected by bypassers. I’ve seen older women and men tremble, talking to themselves at the bus stops. Veterans who wrote on their cardboard signs they were suffering from PTSD and needed assistance finding food. But I would continuously ask myself, how did they get there? How have we gotten to this point of homeless walking the streets with little help? It seems to have the bulk of its beginnings in 1977, when Jimmy Carter had entered office. According to the Gerald N. Grob’s 2005 research on NCBI, President Jimmy Carters Presidential “Commission on Mental Health” had been a step to aiding “deep-rooted problems in a mental health system that was fragmented, lacked cohesion, and often failed to meet the needs of many groups, notably those individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses.”(Grob, 2005) This act was researched for a considerably topical and important time, considering this adjustment to normal life for many ex-soldiers in a post-Vietnam war life, in a flawed system that had no emphasis on a growing population with growing mental illness. It had addressed how Federal, State and smaller agencies would fund hospitals and mental health programs and the problems that were faced, alongside a plan that would span over the 25 years, Rodriguez 3 finally signed in 1980. This was not to last, as the short-lived plans had then been repealed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, as the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act blocked grants for the states, ending the federal government’s part in providing mental health services and decreasing federal spending on mental health. From here, the lack of government assistance in successful programming and resources was on a steady decline. And, while there are many valid and proven reasons for homelessness in the United States regarding increasing prices and unaffordable housing situations, including CNN Money’s report of “170,000 families becoming homeless” (Luhby, 2010) during the 2008 Great Recession, there is also a growing concern for the homeless who possess mental illnesses that hinder them from leading a normal life. In fact, as Deanna Pan had written on Mother Jones, in-combination of the growing homeless crisis of the Recession, “In the aftermath of the Great Recession, states are forced to cut $4.35 billion in public mental-health spending over the next three years.” Dr. E. Fuller Torrey had found through a study by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, “the consensus estimate as of 2014 was that, at minimum, 25 percent of the American homeless—140,000 individuals—were seriously mentally ill at any given point in time. Forty-five percent of the homeless—250,000 individuals—had any mental illness.” (Fuller, 2019) This could bring forth a sobering explanation for the many homeless who “act out” when interacting with others on the street, or the fact that many of these homeless are struggling to get on their feet. (To be continued.) Annotated Bibliography US Census Bureau. “National Homeless Persons Memorial Day: December 21, 2019.” The United States Census Bureau, 23 Dec. 2019, www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/2019/homeless-persons-memorial-day.html​. The U.S. Census Bureau provides factual, unbiased information about the population of the United States. In this article, in light of National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, it offers information taken from National Health Care for the Homeless Council and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) press release. This provided me with current, relevant information regarding the current numbers of the homeless population. Grob, Gerald N. “Public Policy and Mental Illnesses: Jimmy Carters Presidential Commission on Mental Health.” The Milbank Quarterly, Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2005, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690151/​. Gerald N. Grob is the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. This article gave detailed information on Jimmy Carter’s Act(and attempt) to sign and maintain funding for mental illness in America, as he emphasized his concern during his presidency. While it is past its currency on any updated information, it is to be viewed as a recollection of a historical, monumental moment in the history of mental health and is written with excellent punctuation and with a formal tone. Luhby, Tami. “More Families Are Homeless and on the Streets.” CNNMoney, Cable News Network, 17 June 2010,​ money.cnn.com/2010/06/16/news/economy/homelessness/index.htm. Tami Luhby is a senior writer at CNN, where she covers health care policy, the safety net and income inequality. The article comes from a trusted news source and is written with little bias, formally. These figures were to explain the potential causes for the spike in homelessness, accounting for cases that were not exclusive to those suffering with mental illness. Pan, Deanna. “TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences.” Mother Jones, 29 Apr. 2013,​ ​www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/timeline-mental-health-america/​. Deanna Pan is a features and enterprise reporter on the Globe’s Express Desk. This article is a brief, but formal and factual history on deinstitutionalization and its effects on mental illness; initially it is where I first had learned about Jimmy Carter’s Commission on Mental Health, which led me to more substantial research. Fuller, E. Torrey. “Homeless Mentally Ill Facts and Figures.” Mental Illness Policy Org, 23 Jan. 2019,​ mentalillnesspolicy.org/consequences/homeless-mentally-ill.html. Dr. Fuller is a licensed, trained psychiatrist who, upon an easy search, is a Director of Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute and the founder of the nonprofit organization, Treatment Advocacy Center (or TAC). This article was initially the first I had found in my research and has been a wealth of information for statistics on the homeless mentally ill. It has led me to other sources with wealth of information and offers scientific, unbiased information with working links. It is also fairly current, being published in January 2019. ... Purchase answer to see full attachment