scholarly journals Peer Review #2 of "Six-year mortality in a street-recruited cohort of homeless youth in San Francisco, California (v0.1)"

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Homeless Youth

scholarly journals Safe for Whom? And Whose Families? Narrative, Urban Neoliberalism, and Queer Oral History on San Francisco’s Polk Street

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-113
Author(s):  
Joseph Plaster
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Biological Family ◽  
Queer Politics

In this essay I reflect on my experience as director of Polk Street: Lives in Transition, a project that drew on oral histories to intervene in debates about gentrification, homelessness, sex work, queer politics, and public safety in the highly polarized setting of gentrifying San Francisco. From 2008–10, I recorded more than seventy oral histories from people experiencing the transformation of the city’s Polk Street from a working-class queer commercial district to a gentrified entertainment destination serving the city’s growing elite. Oral histories enabled me to document a local past rich in non-biological family structures, which I interpreted through public “listening parties,” professionally mediated neighborhood dialogues, a traveling multimedia exhibit, and radio documentaries. The project challenged gentrifiers’ claims to be promoting “safety” and “family” by positing alternative understandings of both concepts drawn from oral histories with transgender women, queer homeless youth, sex workers, and working-class gay men who had made Polk Street their home.

scholarly journals Six-year mortality in a street-recruited cohort of homeless youth in San Francisco, California

PeerJ ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. e1909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colette L. Auerswald ◽  
Jessica S. Lin ◽  
Andrea Parriott
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Mortality Rate ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Street Youth ◽  
Standardized Mortality Ratio ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Objectives.The mortality rate of a street-recruited homeless youth cohort in the United States has not yet been reported. We examined the six-year mortality rate for a cohort of street youth recruited from San Francisco street venues in 2004.Methods.Using data collected from a longitudinal, venue-based sample of street youth 15–24 years of age, we calculated age, race, and gender-adjusted mortality rates.Results.Of a sample of 218 participants, 11 died from enrollment in 2004 to December 31, 2010. The majority of deaths were due to suicide and/or substance abuse. The death rate was 9.6 deaths per hundred thousand person-years. The age, race and gender-adjusted standardized mortality ratio was 10.6 (95% CI [5.3–18.9]). Gender specific SMRs were 16.1 (95% CI [3.3–47.1]) for females and 9.4 (95% CI [4.0–18.4]) for males.Conclusions.Street-recruited homeless youth in San Francisco experience a mortality rate in excess of ten times that of the state’s general youth population. Services and programs, particularly housing, mental health and substance abuse interventions, are urgently needed to prevent premature mortality in this vulnerable population.

Large-scale spatial network models: An application to modeling information diffusion through the homeless population of San Francisco

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zack W Almquist
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Information Diffusion ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Available Information

To address the effects of increasing homeless populations, planners must understand the size and distribution of their homeless populations, as well as how information and resources are diffused throughout homeless communities. Currently, there is limited publicly available information on the homeless population, e.g. the estimates of the homeless, gathered annually by the US Housing & Urban Development point in time survey. While it is theorized in the literature that the networks of homeless individuals provide access to important information for planners in areas such as health (e.g. needle exchanges) or access (e.g. information diffusion about the location of new shelters), it is almost never measured, and if measured, only at a very small scale. This research addresses the question of how planners can leverage publicly available data on the homeless to better understand their own homeless networks (e.g. relations among the homeless themselves) in a cost-effective and reliable way. To this end, we provide a method for simulating realistic networks of a social relation among the homeless population and perform a diffusion analysis over the resultant homeless-to-homeless networks, and also over a simulated homeless youth Facebook network. We validate the former through novel use of historical data, while the latter is based on recent work that demonstrated that the homeless youth have similar size Facebook networks and usage. We see much stronger spatial hopping and quicker diffusion over the youth network, i.e. we expect information to pass among the youth network much faster than the homeless-to-homeless network. This finding implies that non-government organizations and public health efforts that seek to provide information, goods or services to the homeless should start with the homeless youth, given the potential for faster diffusion when homeless youth are the initial transmitters. Overall, these methods and analysis provide a unique opportunity for visualizing, characterizing and inferring information for large-scale and hard to measure social networks.

Incidence and Predictors of Onset of Injection Drug Use in a San Francisco Cohort of Homeless Youth

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (13) ◽  
pp. 1958-1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea M. Parriott ◽  
Colette L. Auerswald
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Injection Drug Use ◽  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Injection Drug
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