Without A Home: The National Youth Homelessness Survey

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data indicate that poor transitions are also correlated with higher rates of unemployment, lack of educational engagement and achievement, involvement in corrections, lack of skills, and poverty. In addition to inadequate income and supports, many young people who leave care fail to make the transition to independent living because of underdeveloped living skills, inadequate education, lower levels of physical and emotional well-being, and their lack of supports and resources that most young people rely on when moving into adulthood (Courtney et al., 2005). Nichols describes in detail how young people leaving care often ‘slip through the cracks’ of the numerous systems and supports intended to help marginalized youth, often resulting in housing instability and homelessness (Nichols, 2013, 2014). <strong>Youth</strong> who were involved with child protection services cited numerous reasons for leaving care, including the fact that they ‘aged out’ (26.3%), or were returned to their family (12.3%). Importantly, of the 18.8% of youth who chose to leave care of their own accord, 16% explicitly referred to a ‘bad experience’ in care as driving their decision. Did leaving care have an impact on youth’s subsequent experiences of homelessness? 38% of those who ‘aged out’ of care suggested a link between that event and their subsequent homelessness Of youth who had been in care, 30% viewed leaving the system as directly impacting their current situation of homelessness, while 49% said it wasn’t related, and the rest were unsure of the relationship. Significantly, 38% of those who ‘aged out’ suggested a link between that event and their subsequent homelessness. It has been argued that young people leaving care should receive some level of State support while they make the difficult transition to independence. When asked whether they would have appreciated continued support after they aged out or left care, 43.2% replied yes (39.9% said no). Those who ‘aged out’ were much more likely to have said yes (57.4%) compared with 38.6% of those who chose to leave. 50 WITHOUT A HOME: THE NATIONAL YOUTH HOMELESSNESS SURVEY
3.4 Experiences in School While the drop out rate in Canada continues to fall, homeless youth remain overrepresented as having challenging and disrupted academic trajectories (Gaetz & O’Grady, 2002; Lilledahl et al., 2013; Noble et al., 2014; O’Grady & Gaetz, 2004; O’Grady et al., 1998; Karabanow et al., 2010). Low rates of high school completion are typically due to a combination of factors, including (often undiagnosed) learning disabilities and mental health problems, trauma, and addictions issues (either their own, or family members’). In many cases these factors may have resulted in poor school performance and disengagement TABLE 3 Highest level of education % (NUMBER)
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Page 5 and 6: YOUTH HOMELESSNESS continues to be
Page 7 and 8: BECOMING HOMELESS: PATHWAYS INTO HO
Page 9 and 10: 3. Involvement in Child Protection
Page 11 and 12: • High levels of chronicity - Alm
Page 13 and 14: • Transitional supports for young
Page 15 and 16: • We must intervene before youth
Page 17 and 18: 4. Community strategies should nece
Page 19 and 20: YOUTH HOMELESSNESS is a significant
Page 21 and 22: Our approach to data analysis was d
Page 23 and 24: METHODOLOGY How was the research co
Page 25 and 26: SECTION 5 - DISCUSSION: IMPLICATION
Page 27 and 28: YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS (ages
Page 29 and 30: Young people can be grouped into th
Page 31 and 32: 2.4 LGBTQ2S Youth Research on youth
Page 33 and 34: SECTION 3: BECOMING HOMELESS
Page 35 and 36: Finally, structural factors contrib
Page 37 and 38: FIGURE 1 Pathways into homelessness
Page 39 and 40: FIGURE 2 Age of first homelessness
Page 41 and 42: Importantly, our data also shows th
Page 43 and 44: Personal factors contributing to ho
Page 45 and 46: It should be expected that young pe
Page 47 and 48: Transitions from care should be a p
Page 49: Some important differences exist am
Page 53 and 54: at some point during their time in
Page 55 and 56: FIGURE 6 Factors that undermine sch
Page 57 and 58: THE PATHWAYS INTO HOMELESSNESS ARE
Page 59 and 60: 4.1 Housing Housing instability is
Page 61 and 62: 60% of the chronically homeless pop
Page 63 and 64: When we asked young people how many
Page 65 and 66: Within the sample, 42% of participa
Page 67 and 68: violence makes the impact of pre-st
Page 69 and 70: Our analysis indicates that money m
Page 71 and 72: Money from family and friends Recei
Page 73 and 74: Debt load and cheque cashing Past r
Page 75 and 76: 53.2% of youth experiencing homeles
Page 77 and 78: According to our analysis, selling
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
Page 97 and 98: As suggested above, the current res
Page 99 and 100: 5.3 The Need to Help Young People M
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The consequences and outcomes of be
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service providers (mainstream as we
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The implications of this research f
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5.7 Building Resilience, Assets, an
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Reconnecting with family While fami
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IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SHARE
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PREVENTING AND ENDING YOUTH HOMELES
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2. Provincial and Territorial Gover
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2.4 Provincial Ministries of Justic
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3.4 Community strategies should nec
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3.9 Mental health and addictions ne
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Courtney, ME, Skyles, A, Miranda, G
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Nichols, N. (2013). Nobody ‘Signs
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