Young people
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Youth homelessness represents a persistent and significant challenge for service sectors with limited best practice guidance. The present multiple case study investigation was designed to develop a preliminary understanding of the guiding principles that attend the development of interventions that support youth exiting homelessness in the Canadian context. This work contributes to a growing body of literature that seeks to articulate best practices in the effort to address and prevent youth homelessness.
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This study sought to describe and explore associations among selected determinants of health and self-reported scores on indicators of psychological capital among youth experiencing homelessness.
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It is well established that those leaving out-of-home care (OHC) experience considerable disadvantage and that this is exacerbated for Indigenous care leavers. This study examined the housing, homelessness, mental health, alcohol and drug and juvenile justice service usage pathways for care leavers located in Victoria and Western Australia. The types of services that support care leavers to obtain and maintain housing were of interest.
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International research of childhood residential mobility is associated with multiple long-term adverse outcomes. Although frequent residential mobility could be a marker for familial psychosocial difficulties, the elevated risks were cobserved across the socioeconomic spectrum, and mobility may be intrinsically harmful.
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Young people and homelessness as a consequence of family of origin issues and system responses are important to understand how prevention and early interventions can work within this context.
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Understanding developmental risks and mechanisms that influence persistence and desistence of young adult homelessness is an area for future inquiry. This study is unique in its identification of developmental antecedents of young adult homelessness, and points of intervention, within cross-nationally matched population-based cohorts
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In 2017–18, 28% (around 299,900) of young people aged 15–24 lived in lower income households experiencing housing stress.
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The aim of this research is to investigate the long-term impact of studio provision on family relations, social and educational development and future aspiration for young people and their families. KUC claim that through the supply of this resource and the positive impacts obtained, risk to homelessness for young people is reduced.
