Welcome to Vision For A Better Living
Our mission answers the question - "What do we do?" We express our core values as a nonprofit organization, and ultimately form the basis for extending and maintaining our need to better serve you and your community..
Many More People Homeless In Washington
The final report on the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area’s 2009 homeless count is out. As I’ve said before, the count doesn’t begin to include all the individuals and families who don’t have a place of their own to live. But it still provides important insights.
Not surprisingly the percentage of officially homeless people in the region has increased. It’s up by 2.4% since last year and 5.4% since 2006. In the District, the percentage increase is 3% since last year and 3.4% since 2006. Percentage increases in some surrounding jurisdictions are much greater.
School Drop Outs
The U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports annual event dropout rates that describe the proportion of young adults ages fifteen through twenty-four who dropped out during the school year prior to the data collection. Between 1972 and 2000 this annual event dropout rate ranged between 4 and 6.7 percent. This rate decreased from 1972 through 1987. From 1987 to 2000 there were year-to-year fluctuations, but the overall pattern was one of stable rates ranging from 4 to 5.7 percent.
