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Changing Faces: the Story of Two Canadian Street Youth Shelters
This study looks at the connection between street youth shelters and the child welfare systems in Toronto. Covenant House and Youth Without Shelter were used as case examples. Research was conducted u...
Authors: Karabanow, Jeff;Canada;
Tags: child welfare;shelters for the homeless;youth s...
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Child Welfare Involvement Among Children in Homeless Families
An analysis of 8,251 homeless children in New York City found that 18% of them received child welfare services over the five-year period following their first shelter admission, and an additional 6% h...
Authors: Jung Min Park;Stephen Metraux;Gabriel Broadbar;...
Tags: child welfare;disaster relief;homelessness;publ...
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Children in especially difficult circumstances: The global and
...ompartments. It is sad to note that the problem is manmade, and that the most serious threat to our children is humankind itself.
The causes of the escalation of this problem are multifactorial, bu...
Authors: Santos Ocampo, Perla D. ;
Tags: street children; case studies; child welfare; a...
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Cm Magazine: Wards of the Crown: Surviving the Child Welfare System
... the Crown is a heartbreaking view of four lives and of a broken system. The film states, "All children should have the right to expect stability and a place to belong." The social workers i...
Authors: Andrée Cazabon;
Tags: child welfare;health;children;government assist...
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Gimme Shelter! Investigating the Social Service Interface from the ...
... find housing are shaped in relation to a complex institutional maze through which the immigration, child welfare, social assistance, and sheltering systems are linked. My goal is to show how a partic...
Authors: Nichols, Naomi;
Tags: institutional ethnography; immigration; child w...
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Graduating From the Child Welfare System: a Comparison of the Uk an...
Historically, insufficient resources and assistance have been provided to young people leaving state care. Care leavers have been found to experience significant health, social and educational deficit...
Authors: Mendes, Philip;Moslehuddin, Badal;
Tags: welfare;youth;homeless youth;at risk youth;soci...
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Hazards of Stigma: the Sexual and Physical Abuse of Gay, Lesbian, a...
...risk than peers for violence at home, in school, and in the community. That can bring them into the child welfare system or services for runaway and homeless teens. This study compared self-reported e...
Authors: Saewyc, E. M.;Skay, C. L.;Pettingell, S. L.;Rei...
Tags: foreign countries;sexual orientation;homosexual...
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Hearing on Babies Without Homes: Babies Abandoned at Birth
Hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, May ...
Authors: United States;Congress;House;Committee on Educa...
Tags: infants;effect of drugs on;abandoned children;s...
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Homeless Youth: Falling Between the Cracks - An Investigation of Yo...
... accommodation needs of all young people who lack a stable residence, with a focus on those without child welfare status. Preliminary investigation by YAHC of the scope and depth of the problem reveal...
Authors: Clarke, Michelle;Cooper, Merrill;Canada;
Tags: children;children & youth;youth;homeless youth;...
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Homeless Youths and the Child Welfare System: Implications for Poli...
...nd community resources are hard pressed to extend assistance to this challenged population. Current child welfare policy and practice in Canada and the plight of homeless youths in Canada are examined...
Authors: Fitzgerald, Michael D.;
Tags: welfare;phoenix house;halifax;alcoholism;drug u...
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