THE PARADOX OF BEING YOUNG AND HOMELESS: RESILIENCY IN THE FACE OF CONSTRAINTS

The major contribution of this article is to address the lack of knowledge regarding homeless youth’s experiences of risk, from their point of view. The youth at-risk field has become a burgeoning area of research that tends to magnify vulnerabilities, yet limits our understanding of complex youth experiences. It is important to highlight another dimension of the homeless youth experience that has rarely been promoted, and that is one of adaptability and creativity encompassed within a framework of survivability and resilience - notions that often necessitate taking risks. Drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic study with 18 homeless youth (aged 16 and 17 years old) in Ottawa (Canada), this article paints a more complex understanding of the struggles youth face, in terms of structural (social assistance, housing) and symbolic (stigma, social representations, and identity constructs) constraints. This analysis adds complexity to youth-at-risk discourses and displays the challenges they encounter and the resilient ways in which they seek to overcome obstacles. This paper supports a movement towards recognizing youth strengths and the heterogeneity of their experiences.

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Youth at Risk: Another Point of View

Journal of Counseling & Development ◽

10.1002/j.1556-6676.1995.tb01796.x ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 73 (5) ◽

pp. 567-569 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

J. Jeffries McWhirter ◽

Benedict T. McWhirter ◽

Anna M. McWhirter ◽

Ellen Hawley McWhirter

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Point Of View ◽

Youth At Risk

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Identifying Homeless Youth At-Risk of Substance Use Disorder

Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining ◽

10.1145/3394486.3403360 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Maryam Tabar ◽

Heesoo Park ◽

Stephanie Winkler ◽

Dongwon Lee ◽

Anamika Barman-Adhikari ◽

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Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Substance Use ◽

Substance Use Disorder ◽

Homeless Youth ◽

Youth At Risk

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A Design Workshop for Youth ‘At Risk’

IDEA JOURNAL ◽

10.37113/ideaj.vi0.161 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 42-59

Author(s):

Kristine Jerome ◽

Jill Franz ◽

Dianne Smith

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Design Education ◽

Homeless Youth ◽

Teaching Approaches ◽

Community Programs ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Award Winning ◽

Youth At Risk ◽

Design Workshop

This paper describes an award winning program offered to homeless youth in 2001. It details the key learning and teaching approaches that underpinned its success. In the description it highlights the potential of embracing ‘design’ as a framework for facilitating change in youth deemed ‘at risk’ of homelessness. Furthermore, it offers an opportunity to address the significance of design education in community programs.

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Doch keine Freizügigkeit für Arme? – Zur Notwendigkeit einer Abwägung unterschiedlicher konstitutioneller Interessen

Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik ◽

10.1515/zfwp-2001-0208 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Steffen J. Roth

Keyword(s):

Social Assistance ◽

Point Of View ◽

Welfare Recipients ◽

Constitutional Economics ◽

The Poor ◽

The Face ◽

The Veil ◽

And Migration ◽

Utility Interdependence ◽

External Diseconomy

AbstractIn reply to Jörg Markt and Gerhard Schick in this volume, this paper argues for a different view on social assistance and migration. First, this article will present some methodological conditions for constitutional contracts. Lacking empirical testability, the method of constitutional economics particularly needs the revelation of constitutional interests before evaluating alternative rules. By testing the described alternative rules of migration in the face of potential constitutional interests, it will be shown that no rule discussed meets all targets. The reader has to be aware that Märkt/Schick decided to meet the target of free migration for welfare recipients and thereby missed some essential targets of social assistance. In this paper it is questioned, if the objective of free migration for welfare recipients is as important as it looks at first glance. It is argued that liberty as a constitutional interest can be restricted by rational constitutional voters. Behind the veil of uncertainty it might be necessary to limit the external diseconomy from free-riding welfare recipients in social assistance schemes or the external diseconomy from the poor in the utility-interdependence sense. If the reader comes to share this point of view, there is no need to harm the original constitutional interests related to social assistance.

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Worlds Represented: The March of the Penguins towards the Jug of Water

Austin Anthropology ◽

10.26420/austinanthropol.2021.1020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rivera M ◽

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Social Representations ◽

National Level ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Public High School ◽

Educational Processes ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Face ◽

Educational Ethnography

In the search for an understanding of the educational processes that take place in any classroom in the country and the world and that should reflect the complexity of the entire system, this educational ethnography Represented Worlds: The March of the Penguins to the Water Jug1, portrayed for two years how they experienced the transition, from third to fourth grade, two courses of students, one, in a private (private) high school and, the other, in a municipal (public) high school in the Antofagasta commune. The hypotheses raised are related to the way in which emancipatory social representations are constructed, articulated and communicated in social mobilizations. The ethnographic study shows the co-narrative between the events that occurred, at the national level, with which the penguin movement was conceived in 2010 and what was happening in two high school classrooms in Antofagasta. This ethnographic construction constitutes a proposal for the design and analysis of various ways of collecting and making the voice of the actors visible and as a response to the complexity of recording and characterizing dynamic representations in the face of unfolding events. In the last decade we have continued to develop this approach to understand and characterize the cultural, natural and social contexts that surround education, and for this reason, we share this starting point below.

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The New Latin American Network "Habitat at Risk"

Open House International ◽

10.1108/ohi-01-2006-b0018 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 148-153

Author(s):

Aurelio Ferrero ◽

Daniela Gargantini

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Point Of View ◽

Efficient Performance ◽

The Face ◽

Integral Development ◽

Risk Areas ◽

The Relationship

Latin America is recurrently affected by natural disasters. It is in the poorest populations where the damage combines disastrously with the vulnerability of these communities, and only few of the experiences developed in Latin America have used efficient performance mechanisms in relation to the management of disaster risk. Focusing on the immediate response, most of these experiences have neglected the perspective of integral development, thus not working successfully. The weakness of the local institutions thus becomes obvious, as well as the lack of technological instruments for risk reduction. On the other hand, from the point of view of the relationship between science and technology with regard to the problem of risk, more theoretical than actual technological contributions have been made, which no doubt constitutes a vacant area. In the face of this reality, as from December 2002, a new network called “Habitat at Risk” has been constituted in the Iberian-American Programme of Science and Technology for Development (CYTED), within the sub-programme called “Social Interest Housing”. The purpose of this network is to offer technological contributions for the strengthening of local organisations which work in risk areas, and to enhance their response in the face of disasters directed towards habitat and the different aspects, stages, and dimensions involved.

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Text Messaging Reaches Youth at Risk for STDs

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1097-8690(07)70923-x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 40 (15) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

JOHN R. BELL

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Text Messaging ◽

Youth At Risk

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Early Identification of Youth at Risk for Suicidal Behavior

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000569 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (5) ◽

pp. 326-332

Author(s):

Ivonne Andrea Florez ◽

Devon LoParo ◽

Nakia Valentine ◽

Dorian A. Lamis

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Early Identification ◽

Suicide Risk ◽

Psychiatric Symptoms ◽

Demographic Factors ◽

Health Centers ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

Youth At Risk ◽

Logistic Regressions ◽

Lethal Means

Abstract. Background: Early identification and appropriate referral services are priorities to prevent suicide. Aims: The aim of this study was to describe patterns of identification and referrals among three behavioral health centers and determine whether youth demographic factors and type of training received by providers were associated with identification and referral patterns. Method: The Early Identification Referral Forms were used to gather the data of interest among 820 youth aged 10–24 years who were screened for suicide risk (females = 53.8%). Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regressions were conducted to examine significant associations. Results: Significant associations between gender, race, and age and screening positive for suicide were found. Age and race were significantly associated with different patterns of referrals and/or services received by youths. For providers, being trained in Counseling on Access to Lethal Means was positively associated with number of referrals to inpatient services. Limitations: The correlational nature of the study and lack of information about suicide risk and comorbidity of psychiatric symptoms limit the implications of the findings. Conclusion: The results highlight the importance of considering demographic factors when identifying and referring youth at risk to ensure standard yet culturally appropriate procedures to prevent suicide.

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