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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Youth homelessness"”.
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Youth homelessness: an exploration into the desire for family reunification
… the predominant underlying factor that leads to youth homelessness, family has often been framed as “the problem.” As such, many youth services have ignored the role of family as potential solutions to youth homelessness, despite a growing body of literature suggesting family connectedness holds …
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Health inequity by design: LGBTQ+ youth homelessness and a path towards health justice
… to truly effect change. Focusing on LGBTQ+ youth homelessness, I examine how stigma operates across systems including healthcare, housing, and social systems, and how power embedded within systems reinforces inequities over time. After contextualizing these issues within the framework, …
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Deconstructing ideologies and practices of homeless youth crisis intervention
… ideologies behind the “crisis paradigm” of youth homelessness and how these ideologies, in turn, influence the practices of two homeless youth crisis programs, namely the Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS) and the Basic Center in two rural towns in the Midwest. The research …
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Pathways to independence: the experience of young homeless people
Youth homelessness surged in the late 1980s and has been sustained at very high levels in the 1990s. It is a distressing phenomenon which has attracted considerable, if intermittent, attention from politicians, researchers and the media in the past few years. Their concerns have focused mainly on …
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How does childhood trauma and victimisation contribute to youth homelessness and criminal misconduct? A study of influences on young people’s propensity to offend and the role of professionals in supporting homeless young people into living a crime free life
Homeless youth experience social exclusion on numerous fronts, as they are a demographic who occupy the margins of the social, economic and civil spheres of English society. It is the misrepresentation of these marginalised youth that has contributed to this ostracism. Therefore, the crux of this …
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Exploring the educational experiences of young homeless people.
… were recruited from Centrepoint, a UK based youth homeless charity, all aged 18-19. Interviews were used to capture the experiences of the young people, and Smith, Flowers & Larkin's IPA stages used to analyse them. Participants’ individual experiences are presented within the research as …
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Differences in Attitudes towards Heterosexual and LGBT Homeless Youth in College Students
Youth homelessness, particularly among those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), continues to be an underreported problem in society today. This research was designed to investigate hypothesized differences in college students’ empathy towards heterosexual and LGBT youth, and …
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"Somewhere I'm Allowed to Exist as Myself": A Grounded Theory Exploration of Queer and Trans Young Adults Navigating Family Rejection and Housing Instability
… young people are overrepresented among youth and young adults experiencing homelessness and housing instability. Families' rejection of their youth's queer and transgender identities is one of the causes of this overrepresentation, as families force young people out of the home or create …
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Exploring Schooling and Educational Attainment through the Experiences of Homeless Youth
This research demonstrates that homelessness significantly impacts a young persons academic engagement and attainment. Education is a topic that remains at the core of many debates regarding young people, and is central to our understanding of what can lead to better employment and economic …
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Experiences of LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Implementation of The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
… among U.S. legislators need to change about homelessness. While homelessness is certainly a big current issue that many Americans feel that needs to be addressed by our elected leaders, in reality, there are still many debates in Congress about who should be included to receive such funding. …
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Sofa-Surfing: The Cartographies of Young People Utilising Host-Dependent Shelter.
… future identities) to assist an exit from homelessness. Young people (n=41) who had sofa-surfed for three days or more in the last two years were contacted via gatekeepers and interviewed at homeless charities or via Zoom or telephone between September 2020 and August 2021. A two-stage …