Without A Home: The National Youth Homelessness Survey

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3.7 Housing First for Youth should be broadly applied as both a community philosophy and as a program intervention. Housing First is a proven program intervention. The Housing First for Youth framework adapts this program to meet the needs of developing adolescents and young adults. Communities implementing this model should: a) Prioritize young people who are chronically homeless with complex needs, b) Apply the principles to all young people who experience homelessness, and not wait until things ‘get bad’ before young people are entitled to support, and c) Use the model for prevention, to support young people transitioning from care or corrections. 3.8 In working with young people, communities should focus not just on risks, but assets and resilience. A Positive Youth Development philosophy and practice focuses on both risks and assets. In implementing positive youth development, communities should ensure that: a) Staff are supported to do this work. b) Case management and assessment tools take account of this approach. c) Program outcomes focus on more than housing stability and mitigating risk, but also on building assets and resilience. d) Young people are supported to strengthen relationships with other young people and adults. 120 WITHOUT A HOME: THE NATIONAL YOUTH HOMELESSNESS SURVEY
3.9 Mental health and addictions needs of young people should be prioritized in community planning and service delivery. The data from this survey demonstrated the extent to which mental health and addictions are clearly an issue for many young people who experience homelessness. The implications for this include: a) The need for all service providers to adopt a ‘trauma informed care’ approach and ensure all staff are trained and supported to do this work. b) Harm reduction programming and supports should be available to all young people who need it, and all staff should be trained and supported to do this work. c) Local and regional health authorities should work with communities to ensure that all young people between 13-24 have access to necessary mental health and addictions supports. d) Targeted approaches that are tailored to youth needs, such as rapid prevention responses for newly homeless youth and augmentative supports for youth transitioning out of homelessness. 3.10 Foster meaningful youth engagement in all policy development, planning and implementation processes. Young people are very knowledgeable about what has led to their current situation, what is ‘working’ and what isn’t, and what they need. Youth should be included in planning in a way that is respectful and meaningful to them. They should also be compensated for their time and efforts. WITHOUT A HOME: THE NATIONAL YOUTH HOMELESSNESS SURVEY 121
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without a home: The National Youth
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Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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YOUTH HOMELESSNESS continues to be
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BECOMING HOMELESS: PATHWAYS INTO HO
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3. Involvement in Child Protection
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• High levels of chronicity - Alm
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• Transitional supports for young
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• We must intervene before youth
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4. Community strategies should nece
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YOUTH HOMELESSNESS is a significant
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Our approach to data analysis was d
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METHODOLOGY How was the research co
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SECTION 5 - DISCUSSION: IMPLICATION
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YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS (ages
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Young people can be grouped into th
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2.4 LGBTQ2S Youth Research on youth
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SECTION 3: BECOMING HOMELESS
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Finally, structural factors contrib
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FIGURE 1 Pathways into homelessness
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FIGURE 2 Age of first homelessness
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Importantly, our data also shows th
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Personal factors contributing to ho
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It should be expected that young pe
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Transitions from care should be a p
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Some important differences exist am
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3.4 Experiences in School While the
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at some point during their time in
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FIGURE 6 Factors that undermine sch
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THE PATHWAYS INTO HOMELESSNESS ARE
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4.1 Housing Housing instability is
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60% of the chronically homeless pop
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When we asked young people how many
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Within the sample, 42% of participa
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violence makes the impact of pre-st
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Page 79 and 80: Criminal victimization amongst the
Page 81 and 82: TABLE 23 Sexual assault: Gender In
Page 83 and 84: TABLE 25 People you can count on Do
Page 85 and 86: 8.2% responded negatively (disagree
Page 87 and 88: TABLE 27 Self-esteem Levels of self
Page 89 and 90: “I NEVER QUIT. I moved forward th
Page 91 and 92: THE WITHOUT A HOME STUDY IS THE FIR
Page 93 and 94: Colonialism, intergenerational trau
Page 95 and 96: Our findings indicate that those wh
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Page 99 and 100: 5.3 The Need to Help Young People M
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Page 103 and 104: service providers (mainstream as we
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Page 107 and 108: 5.7 Building Resilience, Assets, an
Page 109 and 110: Reconnecting with family While fami
Page 111 and 112: IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SHARE
Page 113 and 114: PREVENTING AND ENDING YOUTH HOMELES
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Page 117 and 118: 2.4 Provincial Ministries of Justic
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