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5 results foundAuthor: Smith, Annie Title: Against the Odds: A Profile of Marginalized and Street-Involved Youth in BC Summary: This report presents a health and well-being survey of marginalized and street-involved youth in six communities across British Columbia. It addresses the following issues: family and home; school and work; health; sport and recreation; sexual behavior; substance use; violence and abuse; and social and community supports. Details: Vancouver, BC: The McCreary Centre Society, 2007. 50p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2007 Country: Canada URL: Shelf Number: 118298 Keywords: Homeless ChildrenRunawaysStreet Youth (Canada) |
Author: Cahn, Katherine Title: Stronger Youth and Smarter Communitieis: An Analysis of Oregon's Investment in Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs Summary: The Oregon Runaway and Homeless Workgroup estimates that 24,000 unaccompanied youth experience homelessness each year in Oregon. Oregon is home to innovative runaway and homeless youth services, but these rely heavily on federal funds and are available primarily in the I-5 corridor. Youth in rural areas, or smaller towns unable to access federal funds, are at risk. To address this problem, the 2007 Oregon State Legislature apppropriated $1 million to the 2007-2009 budget of the Oregon Commission on Children and Familiies to enhance, expand, or develop services and supports for previously un-served runaway and/or homeless youth. The funding allocated enabled the Commission on Children and Families to "roll out" services in 8 counties. This report provides an evaluation on some of the short-term and outcomes of this investment. Details: Portland, OR: Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services, Portland State University, 2009. 59p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 24, 2016 at: http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=casfac Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 118820 Keywords: Homeless ChildrenHomelessnessRunaways (Oregon) |
Author: Consortium for Street Children Title: STREET CHILDREN: A Mapping & Gapping Review of the Literature 2000 to 2010 Consortium for Street Children Summary: This paper presents a unique Literature Review of international research studies about street children published during the decade from 2000 to 2010. Studies have been collected and mapped into 12 thematic sections, drawing on more than 400 papers, chapters and books published around the world in the English language. Studies consulted were primarily academic, supplemented with key texts from the development literature on street children. Gaps between and within thematic sections have been identified and analyzed. The paper‘s dual purpose is: To improve understanding of street children by identifying recent advances in an academic scholarship which began in the 1970s To identify priority areas for academic research on street children, in order to build a stronger strategic base for the development of advocacy, policy and programme design initiatives. This Review divides into 4 Parts and a total of 12 sections, which reflect the most interesting advances in the academic research over the last 10 years as follows: 1. Street Children - Old Myths and New Realities: exploring their Numbers, Definitions, Characteristics and Voices from the Streets 2. Street Children – The Wider ‘Everyday’ Picture: exploring their Relationships, Migration and Mobility, Experiences on the Streets and Ageing into Youth 3. Policies and Interventions – as designed for or experienced by street children 4. The Policy Context – exploring Laws & Enforcement, plus Economics, Budgets & Funding. Details: London: Consortium for Street Children, 2011. 75p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 29, 2011 at: http://www.streetchildren.org.uk/_uploads/publications/Street_Children_Mapping__Gapping_Literature_Review_-_FINAL_VERSION_-_February_2011.pdf Year: 2011 Country: International URL: http://www.streetchildren.org.uk/_uploads/publications/Street_Children_Mapping__Gapping_Literature_Review_-_FINAL_VERSION_-_February_2011.pdf Shelf Number: 122231 Keywords: Homeless ChildrenHomelessnessPovertyStreet Children |
Author: Railway Children Title: Children and Young People Living on the Streets in Mwanza, Tanzania. Headcount Report Summary: This report contains the findings of a "headcount" of children and young people who work or live on the streets of Mwanza, Tanzania. The purpose of conducting this headcount was to establish the number of street-based children and young people so as to inform ongoing strategic responses for them by various stakeholders. Railway Children Africa, the key local agencies working with street children in Mwanza and the Social Welfare department make up the partnership "the Integrated Response for Street Children in Mwanza" which is behind this headcount survey. These different partner agencies have observed what appears to be a steady increase of children and young people on the streets, and the current survey attempts to provide valid data to test assumptions about this trend and create a baseline against which to measure changes in the numbers of children on the streets in future years. Periodically quantifying the street children population provides an opportunity to understand the magnitude of the issue and to call various stakeholders to action as they seek to address and support children and young people living alone on the streets. In this report, the data from the headcount exercise is presented and analysed with lessons learnt, conclusions, and recommendations for future work and data collection. We hope that the data will indicate areas that need to be improved and avenues for new directions for work with children living on the streets. Details: Sandbach, Cheshire, UK: Railway Children, 2012. 24p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 23, 2014 at: http://www.railwaychildren.org.uk/media/11743/mwanza-head-count-report-final.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Tanzania URL: http://www.railwaychildren.org.uk/media/11743/mwanza-head-count-report-final.pdf Shelf Number: 133393 Keywords: BeggingChild ProstitutionHomeless ChildrenHomelessnessSex WorkersStreet Children (Tanzania) |
Author: Strehl, Talinay Title: Street-Working and Street-Living Children in Peru:Conditions and Current Interventions Summary: The 1990s witnessed serious interest from Peruvian NGOs in the issue of street children and, as a result, many street child welfare services were initiated, especially in Lima. However, since that time the interest has once again waned, even though the problem has not decreased. In recent years, hardly any anthropological research with street children has been done in Peru. Although GOs and NGOs have a lot of relevant knowledge concerning street children, this knowledge lacks actualisation and analysis to be positively used for the formulation of policy. This research will expose the reality of street children, which will enable us to understand the relation between street children and the organisations that intervene in their name. The focus will be more on the street-living than on the street-working children. One of the central objectives of this IREWOC research therefore was to reveal the faces and voices of street children and analyse their various backgrounds, relations to the streets and their perceptions of their situation. The research results were expected to give relevant insights into the various reasons why children are in the streets, the activities in which the children engage and how they generate income and the consequences that the children experience from their working/living/being in the streets. The anthropological outline of the lives of street children will form a basis for the second objective of this research, namely to map different policy initiatives for street children and to identify the best practices to satisfy street children's needs. Are organisations working with street children alleviating the problem or are they reproducing it, i.e. are their policies pulling children to the streets? These research objectives have been translated to the following research questions: - What are the street children's coping mechanisms? What labour activities or other activities do the children perform to generate income and what do they use it for? - What consequences does living/working in the streets have for these children's lives: what are the specific problems that the various types of street children face? - What are their urgent (self-declared) needs and what are their (perceived) aspirations? - Which specific strategies and interventions are used by GOs and NGOs to improve the situation of street children? - What are the effects of the different GO and NGO interventions on the street children and which strategies can be identified as most effective in improving the daily life situation and the future prospects of the street children? - Do GOs and NGOs work in a complementary way? What are bottlenecks in cooperation? The fieldwork locations for this research were Lima and Cusco. Lima was chosen because of its urban and metropolitan character and high number of street children, and Cusco because of its tourism industry and more rural and indigenous influences. Details: Leiden: Foundation for International Research on Working Children (IREWOC), 2010. 145p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 18, 2015 at: https://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/Street%20Children%20Peru_Strehl_IREWOC_2010.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Peru URL: https://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/Street%20Children%20Peru_Strehl_IREWOC_2010.pdf Shelf Number: 134964 Keywords: Child AbuseChild LaborChild ProstitutionHomeless ChildrenOrganized CrimePovertySexual ExploitationStreet Children (Peru) |