Youth Homelessness

Author : Jeff Karabanow,Sean Kidd,Tyler Frederick,Jean Hughes
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771123358

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Homeless Youth and the Search for Stability by Jeff Karabanow,Sean Kidd,Tyler Frederick,Jean Hughes Pdf

Youth are one of the fastest growing segments of the homeless population. Although there has been much research on how youth become homeless and survive on the streets, we know very little about their pathways off the street and the many challenges that present during this process. This book relates the lived experiences of homeless youth as they negotiate the individual, sociocultural, and economic tensions of transitioning out of homeless and street contexts and cultures. Through interviews the authors gained privileged entry into the lives of youth in Toronto and Halifax over a year-long period. Through rich qualitative prose, quantitative elaboration, and comic-book narratives, participants spoke of courage, fortitude, strength, adversity, and at times, simple bad luck. Ultimately this became a story of fragility, complexity, living “on the edge,” and the (re)-building of identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Homeless Hub
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780772714756

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Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeff Karabanow,Alexa Carson,Philip Clement
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Street youth
ISBN : UOM:39076002903594

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Leaving the Streets by Jeff Karabanow,Alexa Carson,Philip Clement Pdf

Youth between sixteen and twenty-four are considered the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in Canada. While much has been said about why young people enter street life and the culture they encounter there, little has been said about how they exit the street. Through the voices of street youth and frontline workers, Leaving the Streets offers invaluable insights into young people's attempts to exit street life, examining the motivations and challenges, as well as the supports and barriers that aid and hurt youth through this process. Based on the findings from qualitative research done in six cities across Canada, this book demonstrates that exiting street life is a non-linear process involving several layers of motivation and action and action, woven together in a complex web that facilitates the breaking of old social bonds and the building of new ones. From shelters and support programs to mental health and drug use, this book examines the structural and Personal barriers to exiting and details the services that are available, and those that should be available, to help street youth find housing, income and the strength needed to start a new life. Book jacket.

Author : Susan Hutson,Mark Liddiard
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Children
ISBN : 0333550560

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Youth Homelessness by Susan Hutson,Mark Liddiard Pdf

'The text...is written in a characteristically accessible style and the presentation of the information is clear and eye-catching.' - Roof

Author : Sue-Ann MacDonald,Benjamin Roebuck
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552669334

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Staying Alive While Living the Life by Sue-Ann MacDonald,Benjamin Roebuck Pdf

In Staying Alive While Living the Life, Sue-Ann MacDonald and Benjamin Roebuck unpack the realities of living on the streets from the perspective of homeless youth. While much is written about at-risk youth, most literature on youth homelessness reduces their lives to flattened images with little room for the diverse, complex and individual nature of their experiences. Challenging the dominant youth-at-risk conversation by putting forward a framework of survival and resilience, MacDonald and Roebuck illustrate the ways that young people who experience homelessness demonstrate tremendous resilience when facing adversity, social exclusion and various forms of oppression. Drawing on conversations with homeless youth, this book focuses both on the external constraints imposed on their lives as well as the ways young people understand their circumstances and their approaches to problem solving. The result is a nuanced analysis that puts human agency at its centre, allowing readers to explore the challenges young people face and the internal and external resources they draw upon when making decisions about their lives.

Author : Curren Warf,Grant Charles
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030406752

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Clinical Care for Homeless, Runaway and Refugee Youth by Curren Warf,Grant Charles Pdf

Adolescent homelessness is a growing problem that results in a variety of health challenges. This text is a practical resource designed to promote effective interdisciplinary health and social care interventions targeting adolescents who are homeless or at risk for homelessness. It is based on extensive interdisciplinary experience, reviews of pertinent research and insights and contributions of leading professionals who are directly involved in the care of these young people. Divided into four main sections, Section 1: (Chapters 1-7) section one is a review of the structure and professional involvement of program models targeting youth experiencing or at risk for homelessness to encourage broader understanding and utilization of principles and practices underlying effective programs and identify replicable components. Section 2: (Chapters 8-16) Section two is clinically focused with recommendations for working with adolescents and youth experiencing homelessness and interventions for common and significant medical and mental health conditions, and substance use disorders. Section 3: (Chapter 17) Reviews international agreements regarding stabilization and care of refugee youth and families, description of experiences of refugee children and youth in developed countries, and an outline of conditions from which refugee youth and families have left. Section 4: (Chapters 18 and 19) Engagement of homeless youth in research and future research directions to address needs of youth experiencing homelessness. Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, Clinical Care for Homeless, Runaway and Refugee Youth is a first of its kind text for physicians, social workers, public health workers and any other individual that works directly with these vulnerable populations.

Author : Manal Guirguis-Younger,Stephen W. Hwang,Ryan McNeil
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780776621487

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Homelessness & Health in Canada by Manal Guirguis-Younger,Stephen W. Hwang,Ryan McNeil Pdf

"Brings together leading and emerging researchers to advance understanding of the complex relationships between homelessness and health. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, contributors outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to this public health crisis."--Back cover.

Author : John Hagan,Bill McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052164626X

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Mean Streets by John Hagan,Bill McCarthy Pdf

About youth crime and homelessness in Canada.

Author : Susan Hutson,Mark Liddiard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349235353

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Youth Homelessness by Susan Hutson,Mark Liddiard Pdf

Drawing on a broad range of international studies, this book looks in detail at how youth homelessness is variously defined, measured and explained, as well as discussing the solutions which are usually proposed for it. Yet this book is more than simply a description of youth homelessness. It uses original material to show how youth homelessness, like other issues, can be differently presented by agencies, the media, academics, politicians and by those directly affected - in this case, young homeless people themselves.

Author : David Farrugia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812876850

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Youth Homelessness in Late Modernity by David Farrugia Pdf

This book explores the identities, embodied experiences, and personal relationships of young people experiencing homelessness, and analyses these in relation to the material and symbolic position that youth homelessness occupies in modern societies. Drawing on empirical research conducted in both urban and rural areas, the book situates young people’s experiences of homelessness within a theoretical framework that connects embodied identities and relationships with processes of social change. The book theorises a ‘symbolic economy of youth homelessness’ that encompasses the subjective, aesthetic, and relational dimensions of homelessness. This theory shows the personal, interpersonal and affective suffering that is caused by the relations of power and privilege that produce contemporary youth homelessness. The book is unique in the way in which it places youth homelessness within the wider contexts of inequality, and social change. Whilst contemporary discussions of youth homelessness understand the topic as a discrete ‘social problem’, this book demonstrates the position that youth homelessness occupies within wider social processes, inequalities, and theoretical debates, addressing theories of social change in late modernity and their relationship to the cultural construction of youth. These theoretical debates are made concrete by means of an exploration of an important form of contemporary inequality: youth homelessness.

Author : Phil Robinson
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1846428157

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Working with Young Homeless People by Phil Robinson Pdf

Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation. This accessible guide provides information and advice on how to understand the needs of these young people, and how to ensure they are supported effectively. It combines the latest research and practice to establish what works best when helping young homeless people and provides insights into their world through diary excerpts and interviews. Key issues covered include the relationship between drug and alcohol misuse and youth homelessness, current policies on housing and support for homeless youths and strategies for renewing a young person's familial bonds and friendships after an experience of homelessness. This book is an invaluable guide for anyone working with young homeless people, including youth workers, counsellors, social workers, residential care staff, teachers, health visitors and managers in the housing, education, health and social welfare sectors.

Author : Kristina E. Gibson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814733370

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Street Kids by Kristina E. Gibson Pdf

Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. Kristina Gibson argues that the enforcement of quality of life ordinances in New York City has spurred hyper-mobility amongst the cityOCOs street youth population and has serious implications for social work with homeless youth. Youth in motion have become socially invisible and marginalized from public spaces where social workers traditionally contact them, jeopardizing their access to the already limited opportunities to escape street life. The culmination of a multi-year ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and OCytheir kidsOCO on the streets of New York City, Street Kids illustrates the critical role that public space regulations and policing play in shaping the experience of youth homelessness and the effectiveness of street outreach.

Author : Brandon Andrew Robinson
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520299276

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Coming Out to the Streets by Brandon Andrew Robinson Pdf

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives. Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in central Texas, Coming Out to the Streets looks into the LGBTQ youth's lives before they experience homelessness—within their families, schools, and other institutions—and later when they navigate the streets, deal with police, and access shelters and other services. Through this documentation, Brandon Andrew Robinson shows how poverty and racial inequality shape the ways that the LGBTQ youth negotiate their gender and sexuality before and while they are experiencing homelessness. To address LGBTQ youth homelessness, Robinson contends that solutions must move beyond blaming families for rejecting their child. In highlighting the voices of the LGBTQ youth, Robinson calls for queer and trans liberation through systemic change.

Author : Jeff Karabanow
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0820467812

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Being Young and Homeless by Jeff Karabanow Pdf

Being Young and Homeless is an intimate portrayal of life on the street from the perspective of young people in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Guatemala City. Jeff Karabanow passionately portrays street youth experiences in various locales, highlighting reasons for entering street life, struggles to survive on the street, encounters with service providers, and for some, the street exiting process. This insightful book is relevant for students and practitioners of social work, sociology, social administration, and public policy.

Author : H. Craig Erskine, III
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534502161

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Teen Homelessness by H. Craig Erskine, III Pdf

More than two million kids in the U.S. face homelessness each year, with 57 percent going without food for at least one day a month. Teens represent a shocking 7 percent of the country's total homeless population. Whether they're crashing on someone's couch, living in cars, staying in shelters, or literally sleeping on the street, studies show that the plight of homeless youths is only growing worse. The viewpoints in this book tackle the economic and societal factors that contribute to teen homelessness, the stark situations faced by young transients today, and what can be done to curb this alarming trend.