Download or read book Street Youth in Canada written by Mark S. Dolson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an ethnographic examination of the everyday lives and struggles of street-involved youth in Canada. Based on fieldwork conducted throughout downtown London, Ontario, it features rich ethnographic data as well as theoretical insights informed by continental philosophy. The chapters highlight informants’ experiences of poverty, addiction and poor mental health, and reflect on their relation to the state – including participation in the provincial government’s programme of social assistance provision (Ontario Works). The author considers how social, cultural, political, economic and existential factors influence and shape human subjectivity. They explore the notion of becoming and offer a re-evaluation of individual agency and action, specifically related to the lived experience of informants who are seen as wounded bricoleurs. The study is relevant to anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and others with an interest in homelessness.
Download or read book Leaving the Streets written by Jeff Karabanow and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Finding Home Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada written by and published by The Homeless Hub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homelessness Health in Canada written by Manal Guirguis-Younger and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Studying Runaways and Street Youth in Canada written by Augustine Brannigan and published by Solicitor General Canada, Police Policy and Research Division. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus for this report is provided by 5 general questions: What is the size of the runaway and street youth population? What are the demographic characteristics of these young people? What are the antecedents to running and becoming a street kid? What are the consequences of participating in street life and how does a young person get off the streets? and, What services are directed at these young people in the areas of education, health, criminal justice and social services and what gaps or overlaps exist in these services. The researchers provide an extensive review of the literature on street youth and runaways followed by a detailed overview of the most recent Canadian research which focuses specifically on the design decisions adopted in these studies. Next, a conceptual model and methodological strategies are developed. Finally, the results of a pilot study (the Calgary Experience) that incorporated much of the information garnered in previous sections are presented.
Download or read book Clinical Care for Homeless Runaway and Refugee Youth written by Curren Warf and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Being Young and Homeless written by Jeff Karabanow and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Homeless Youth and the Search for Stability written by Jeff Karabanow and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Being Young and Homeless written by Jeff Karabanow and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Street Kids written by Marlene Webber and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-12-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cities across North America, teenage runaways are struggling to stay alive. Some don't make it to adulthood. Some do, but their lives rarely rise above the despair that brought them to the streets in the first place. A few manage to beat the street, to get their lives back on track. In this disturbing account Marlene Webber draws on extensive interviews with these kids to explore the realities of street life, its attraction, and its consequences. Street kids like to project an image of themselves as free-wheeling rebels who relish life on the wild side. All brashness and bombast, they strut around inner cities panhandling, posturing, and prostituting themselves. Labelled society's bad boys and girls, they often live up to their image. But as sixteen-year-old Eugene tells us, the street forces bravado on homeless adolescents, 'but underneath, a lot of kids are plenty scared.' Eugene is only one of many street kids who talked to Webber in major cities across Canada. She lets her subjects tell their own stories; their voices are sometimes brave, sometimes bitter, often heartbreaking. Webber cuts a comprehensible path through the tangle of forces, including family breakdown and social-service failure, that accelerate the tragedy of Canada's runaways. She suggests measures that might help more of them beat the streets.
Download or read book Street youth in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are also grateful to all of the principal investigators and coordinators from the sites, for their commitment from the beginning of the pilot project in 1998 to phase IV in 2003. [...] We would like to express our appreciation for the input of numerous staff, past and present, of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) who offered their expertise for the successful completion of the main report and sub-reports, including: Susanne Shields, who was the former principal investigator instrumental in conceptualizing, creating and designing E-SYS in the first place. [...] In addition, the youth who do participate in these surveys are likely to have significantly lower levels of risk behaviours than the street youth population.10 1.3 Canadian Street Youth: A Vulnerable Population Prior research on street youth has shown that they are an emotionally and physically vulnerable population.9 Street youth were more likely to report having had sexual intercourse before the [...] In addition to disease prevalence information, the sentinel surveillance system was also designed to collect data on some of the determinants of health and on the prevalence of risk behaviours. [...] They are Canadian Street Youth and Substance Use,22 Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections in Canadian Street Youth23 and Hepatitis C and Injecting Drug Use Among Street Youth.24 Findings from Enhanced Surveillance of Canadian Street Youth, 1999-2003 5 A large majority (95%) of street youth reported having used non-injecting drugs.
Download or read book A Directory of Services for Street Youth in Canada written by Dallas Nikolai and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staying Alive While Living the Life written by Sue-Ann MacDonald and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Street Children and Homeless Youth written by Lewis Aptekar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with street children who live in the developing world, and homeless youth who are from the developed world. They are referred to as children in street situations (CSS) to show that the problem is both in the children and in the situation they face. The book examines several aspects of the children and their street situations, including the families of origin and the homes they leave, the children’s social life, and mental health. Other aspects are the problems of published demographics, the construction of public opinion about these children and the, often violent, reactions from authorities. The book then discusses current research on children in street situations, as well as programs and policies. The book ends with recommendations about programs, policies and research.
Download or read book Youth Homelessness in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Homelessness Research Network acknowledges with thanks the financial support of the the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. [...] The analysis and interpretations contained in the chapters are those of individual contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the financial contributors or of the CHRN. [...] Chronically Disconnected - In terms of numbers, this will be the smallest group of homeless youth, but at the same time the group with the most complex needs, and the users of the most resources in the youth homelessness sector. [...] Chap- ters in this section focus on family relations in the lives of young people and the potential for reconnecting with family and community (Winland, this volume), the strategies that young people engage in, and the challenges they face in transi- tioning off the streets and in obtaining stability (Karabanow & Naylor, this vol- ume), an in-depth exploration of the multiple childhood stresses fa [...] Chapters in this section focus on the criminalization and policing of youth homelessness (O'Grady et al., this volume), why street youth become involved in crime (Baron, this volume) and the legal, social and moral regulation of homeless youth (Sommers, this volume).
Download or read book Africentric Social Work written by Delores V. Mullings and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-31T00:00:00Z with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection focuses on Africentric social work practice, providing invaluable assistance to undergraduate students in developing foundational skills and knowledge to further their understanding of how to initiate and maintain best practices with African Canadians. In social work education and field practice, students will benefit from the depth and breadth of this book’s discussions of social, health and educational concerns related to Black people across Canada. The book’s contributors present a broad spectrum of personal and professional experiences as African Canadian social work practitioners, students and educators. They address issues that African Canadians confront daily, which social work educators and potential practitioners need to understand to provide racially and culturally relevant services. The book presents students with an invaluable opportunity to develop their practical skills through case studies and critical thinking exercises, with recommendations for how to ethically and culturally engage in African-centred service provision.
Download or read book The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets written by Jane Addams and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
