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Six-year mortality in a street-recruited cohort of homeless youth in San Francisco, California [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
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.
Colette L. Auerswald, Jessica S. Lin, Andrea Parriott   +2 more
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The Prevalence and Correlates of Labor and Sex Trafficking in a Community Sample of Youth Experiencing Homelessness in Metro-Atlanta

Social Sciences, 2021
Research suggests that runaway and homeless youth (RHY) in the United States are vulnerable to sex and labor trafficking. In this paper, we report and analyze estimates of sex and labor trafficking collected as part of the Atlanta Youth Count 2018, a ...
Eric R. Wright, Ana LaBoy, Kara Tsukerman, Nicholas Forge, Erin Ruel, Renee Shelby, Madison Higbee, Zoe Webb, Melanie Turner-Harper, Asantewaa Darkwa, Cody Wallace   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drug use patterns and predictors among homeless youth: Results of an ecological momentary assessment [PDF]

American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2018
Diane Santa Santa Maria, Nikhil Padhye, Yijiong Yang   +2 more
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Falling Through the Cracks: Homeless Youth Need Natural Mentors [PDF]

, 2020
The current Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which contains the most recent reauthorization of the McKinney Vento Act (M-V), places a focus on homeless youth that is intended to facilitate access to K-12 education, higher education and eliminate ...
Le, Desiree Viramontes
core   +1 more source

Specifics of social work with young people experiencing homelessness [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
There were about a 4.1million homeless people in the European Union [1]. In the European Union, 20-30 per cent of homeless people are young people between the ages of 18-29 years [2].
Sadauskas Justinas, Kewoh-Vainio Vivian
doaj   +1 more source

Structural Determinants as the Cause of Homelessness for Aboriginal Youth

Critical Social Work, 2019
This article explores the structural determinants of Aboriginal youth homelessness in Toronto, Canada. It includes a literature review and provides some of the findings of a recent research project, which implemented an Aboriginal research methodology ...
Cyndy Baskin
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges to immunization: the experiences of homeless youth

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Homelessness is a critical social issue, both a product of, and contributing to, poor mental and physical health. Over 150,000 young Canadians live on the streets.
Doroshenko Alexander, Hatchette Jill, Halperin Scott A, MacDonald Noni E, Graham Janice E   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Typology of Transition-Age Youth

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Young adulthood is a time of transition which poses particular challenges for youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, including those exiting foster care.
Jessica Raithel, Andrew Wallace, Maryanne Schretzman, Eileen Johns   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk evaluations and condom use decisions of homeless youth: a multi-level qualitative investigation. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundHomeless youth are at higher risk for sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy than non-homeless youth. However, little is known about how they evaluate risk within the context of their sexual relationships.
Brown, Ryan A, Kennedy, David P, Morrison, Penelope, Ryan, Gery W, Tucker, Joan S, Vie, Loryana   +5 more
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Youth in Calgary’s Housing Programs: A Case Study [PDF]

The School of Public Policy Publications
There is increasing awareness that homeless youth face very different challenges than homeless adults do. With this awareness comes the recognition that housing programs for youth must be designed and developed differently to meet their unique needs.
Ali Jadidzadeh, Ronald Kneebone
doaj   +1 more source