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Homelessness: Key Findings and Grantmaking Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This report provides a summary of research and interviews that were commissioned and conducted by the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation during the spring of 2002 to guide the development of grantmaking strategies in the field of ...
David Pontecorvo, Kris Putnam-Walkerly
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Supporting Young People Leaving Out‐of‐Home Care: Perspectives of Young People and Their Out‐of‐Home Care Providers on the Milestone Program

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transition to adulthood is a developmental stage marked by multiple opportunities and challenges that have significant impacts on young people's well‐being. Young people involved in child welfare often encounter hardships during this transition and struggle to negotiate it successfully due to the adversities they experience before and during ...
Samantha Chan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health and Well‐Being Beyond Residential Care: Implications for Extended Care Service Responses for Young People

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Care leavers often encounter considerable health and well‐being challenges, underscoring the need for continued support into early adulthood. This small‐scale mixed‐methods study explored the health, well‐being and extended care experiences of participants in the South Australian Next Steps pilot program for residential care leavers, assessed ...
Sally‐Ann Keipert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The cost of youth homelessness in Australia study: snapshot report 1 [PDF]

open access: yes
Overview: This is the first national Australian longitudinal study investigating the economic, personal and social costs of youth homelessness over time across a broad range of locations.
Adam Steen   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Pathways to Success for Michigan's Opportunity Youth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Each young person must navigate his/her own pathway into and through postsecondary education and the workforce to long-term success personalized to his/her own unique needs and desires.

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Examining Policies and Practices to Support Young People Transitioning From Out‐of‐Home Care (OOHC) in Asia: What Do We Know From Existing Grey Literature?

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Young people transitioning from out‐of‐home care, also known as care leavers, are globally recognised as a vulnerable group. There is a scarcity of literature on leaving care across the Global South, including Asia. The authors examined policies and practices from the grey literature to gain insights from broader literature beyond peer ...
Rangga Radityaputra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children (N = 8).
Jennifer De Paola   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
wiley   +1 more source

Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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