An instructor reviews the definition of homelessness according to the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act with a group of community health nursing students. The instructor determines that the students need clarification when they include which of the following as homeless?

A) Someone living in a public shelter

B) Someone living in a park

C) Someone who is incarcerated

D) Someone who lives in his or her car

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Carmen Rich

18 August, 06:32

An instructor reviews the definition of homelessness according to the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act with a group of community health nursing students. The instructor determines that the students need clarification when they include which of the following as homeless?

A) Someone living in a public shelter

B) Someone living in a park

C) Someone who is incarcerated

D) Someone who lives in his or her car

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Moshe Roberts · Answer 1

Answer:C) Someone who is incarcerated

Explanation:

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Title 42 of the U. S. Code) states that a homeless person is a person who has no stable home or shelter where he or she regularly goes to at night which includes a shelter provided privately or publicly for temporal accommodation or all those places that can not be used for regular accomodation such as parks and camp grounds.

Based on this definition incarcerated individuals can not be considered as homeless.

Incarcerated refer to a person who has been imprisoned in such that they can not escape; most likely this person is kept under a shelter at all times.