Homelessness Analysis

Throughout the semester, I have been able to research homelessness in Saint Louis specifically homeless women and their children. This topic interested me because I could apply knowledge from classes I have taken at SLU. As a group filled with healthcare majors, we approached our research by looking at the developmental affects poverty has on a child. In the future, I hope to become a pediatric nurse, so by understanding the effects poverty takes on a child, I will be better able to help the children I treat. In my research, I discovered that many of the parents of the families who are homeless or in poverty have jobs, but the family’s income is insufficient in providing for the family. Another interesting fact I learned is that one in every ten children in Saint Louis are living in poverty.

One of our difficulties was merging two group ideas together. Jessica wanted to work with women who were just released from jail, and Anna and I wanted to work with veterans who had psychological issues after coming home from war. After meeting, we were able to brainstorm and combine our ideas to form an even better topic, homeless women and children. In building our video, we realized that each group member had their own strength. My strength was editing and rephrasing the paper we wrote to make it sound like a video. I was able to change an informational paper into a persuasive script. During this process, I struggled with keeping the other group members’ viewpoints in mind. This is where it would have been easier to work alone, but for the majority of the project having a group was extremely beneficial. Another issue I faced while recording the first time, I used one long recording, so when we went to revise the audio, I had to start from scratch. From this project, I learned that when using audio recordings, it is better to record in smaller