It is easier for homeless men who are fathers to access homelessness and addiction services than it is for women who are mothers, a landmark report published on Thursday finds., the largest non-statutory homelessness and addiction treatment service in the State, and the UCD Community Drugs Programme, says women experience particular shame and stigma about their circumstances. This results in many not seeking help until they are in extreme crisis.
A practitioner interviewed for the report is quoted as saying: “Why are we not seeing women before they get to these levels of trauma and trouble? Women are hugely under-represented at the start of their difficulties, they present when something drastic has happened, a hospitalisation, an overdose, the loss of children. Why are they not asking for help way before that?”
Of the 11,600 people supported by MQI last year, 1,904 were women, though women account for 42 per cent of homeless adults. Many of these however are mothers with children.
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