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Fostering Rural Youth Wellbeing through Afterschool Programs: The Case of Fusion Youth and Technology Centre, Ingersoll, Ontario

open access: yesJournal of Rural and Community Development, 2015
Rural youth face many challenges and risks to their wellbeing. One means of mitigating the risks rural youth experience, is through the provision of afterschool programs.
Heather Cross, Al C. Lauzon
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The Role of After School-Programs in Promoting Youth Inclusion in Rural and Small Communities: The Case of the Fusion Youth and Technology Centre, Ingersoll, Ontario

open access: yesJournal of Rural and Community Development, 2014
Rural communities face many challenges including the retention of their youth. Rural youth also face challenges, particularly in comparison to urban youth.
Sarah Christie, Allan C LAuzon
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From Place to Space: Exploring Youth Migration and Homelessness in Rural Nova Scotia

open access: yesJournal of Rural and Community Development, 2014
The study explored the issue of rural homelessness in Nova Scotia, and the trajectories that rural homeless youth take in their young lives, as they typically leave their rural home to move to an urban centre.
Jeff Karabanow, Aube Caila, Ted D Naylor
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The Effects of Occupational Aspirations and Other Factors on the Out-Migration of Rural Youth

open access: yesJournal of Rural and Community Development, 2011
Out-migration of youth from rural areas persists as one of the most serious threats to the sustainability of rural communities. This study provides a more rigorous examination than has been previously possible of whether occupational aspirations held by ...
Trevor Brooks   +3 more
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"At Risk" of Being Rural? The Experience of Rural Youth in a Risk Society

open access: yesJournal of Rural and Community Development, 2010
This paper uses data from a researcher-designed longitudinal survey of youth to examine factors associated with whether rural youth return to or stay in their home communities or a similar rural community.
Dianne E. Looker, Ted D. Naylor
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Assembling places, technologies and young people - becoming rural youth with vehicles and digital technologies in Finland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
In this article, we explore the meanings of different technologies, especially vehicles and digital technologies, in the lives of young rural people.
Pöysä, Ville, Ristaniemi, Helena
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Rural economic resilience and the future rural livelihood dreams of Ireland's youth

open access: yes, 2023
Focused on generational renewal, this paper presents the ideal livelihoods young people envision for themselves in a rural area. In doing so, it ascertains what facilitates young people to stay in rural areas, or what motivates them to return once they ...
Murtagh, Aisling   +3 more
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Rural Youth Violence [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Public Health, 2005
Youth violence is a significant issue for public health because of the potential for long-term impacts on individuals, families and communities. Limited exposure to violence is seen as a component of healthy living. However, there is limited understanding of violence from a public health perspective within rural communities.
Kulig, Judith C.   +3 more
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“There is no reward penny for going out and picking up youths”: issues in the design of accessible youth healthcare services in rural northern Sweden

open access: yesBMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective There is a continuing challenge to ensure equitable access to youth healthcare services in small rural communities. Sweden’s ‘youth clinic’ system is an attempt to provide comprehensive youth health services from a single centre, but many small
Cecilia Hultstrand Ahlin   +2 more
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Youth rural-urban migration in Ethiopia: Environmental drivers and employment in the informal sector

open access: yes, 2022
Anthropogenic environmental degradation has been triggering youth rural to urban migration in developing countries. Environmental-driven migration pressure is intense in countries that rely on weather-dependent agriculture.
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet.   +1 more
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