Homeless Youth And The Search For Stability
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Author | : Jeff Karabanow |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2018-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1771123354 |
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 | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-08-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309477042 |
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1988-02-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309038324 |
There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.
Author | : Ronald E. Hallett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2012-01-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1136652264 |
More than half the homeless youth in America are living "doubled-up" because of economic hardship, often on the brink of full-on homelessness. The findings here give an invaluable look at how this population navigates their education.
Author | : Brandon Andrew Robinson |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520299272 |
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 | : Gail Snyder |
Publisher | : Referencepoint Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2021-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781678201708 |
One in 30 young people aged 13 to 17 and one in ten 17- to 25-year-olds experience homelessness in any year. Whether they double-up with family or friends, couch surf, live on the streets, or live in motels or shelters, homeless youths are often hidden from public view and the impact of their housing instability may be felt for generations. Homeless: Youth Living on the Streets explores what it is like to be young and homeless, what causes youth homelessness, and what can be done about it.
Author | : Cherese Cartlidge |
Publisher | : Referencepoint Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-08 |
Genre | : Homeless persons |
ISBN | : 9781601529787 |
As many as 2.5 million children and teens experience homelessness each year in the United States. Whether they are with their family or on their own, homelessness is a difficult and often traumatic experience for youth. Homeless Youth presents a powerful, real-world look at the lives of these vulnerable young people.
Author | : Jeff Karabanow |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780820467818 |
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 | : Nell Bernstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Homeless youth |
ISBN | : 9781587032356 |
Author | : Jack Tsai |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0190695137 |
The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented. But for all the political outcry and attempts to improve military members' readjustments, veterans of all service eras face formidable obstacles related to mental health, substance abuse, employment, and — most damningly — homelessness. Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness — geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it — in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.