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This 5 page paper examines specific facilities and discusses women's need for special living arrangements. Issues discussed include incarceration, child rearing and substance abuse.
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recipient of other types of social services. They may have been incarcerated, or just finished a drug treatment program. Some may have found themselves pregnant with nowhere to go. In
fact, when exploring these different predicaments, and particularly the last one, it becomes obvious that women are more in need of safe and secure transitional housing than are men. Traditionally,
women are the homemakers but they are also the ones that are used to be taken care of by a man. The man is the traditional breadwinner. Times have
changed. Still, women are different from men and do have special needs. Women are more likely to be battered or left to raise a child. They are also a protected
class, which means that they are subject to discrimination despite the fact that many women have to support themselves. What types of halfway houses or transitional housing is available for
them? First, it is important to understand that the wide array of offerings is usually attached to one particular segment of society or another. For example, the Womens Prison Association
helps women who have been in prison (Jacobs, 1997). Yet, this organization is one that helps women but has been around since 1844 (Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by
the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacobs, 1997). Part of their concern would lead to the first halfway house for women
in the nation (Jacobs, 1997). The halfway house was located in New York City and began on the West Side (Jacobs, 1997). Later on, it was moved to the Village
(Jacobs, 1997). Women volunteers would run the halfway house and in their spare time would go to Albany to fight for better, and separate, conditions for women prisoners (Jacobs, 1997).
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