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Creating Cultural Exchange Between Homeless Youth and University Students
Author(s): Lia Ruttan, L. Sather, Brenda Elizabeth Munro, P. LaBoucana-Benson
Publication Date: 2009
The purpose of this research was to develop a program that would link homeless youth and university students in a supportive relationship and that meets the needs of all key stakeholders. The key research question was: “What do key stakeholders want a program, which involves a supportive relationship between university students and homeless you, to look like? Literature background: More research is needed to establishment intervention programs ba...
“A Story I Never Heard Before”: Aboriginal Young Women, Homelessness, and Restoring Connections
Author(s): Lia Ruttan, P. LaBoucana-Benson, B. Munro
Publication Date: 2008
The study focused on the assets homeless youth used to survive while homeless and to transition out of homelessness. This focus on assets was innovative; there is little longitudinal research on homeless youth and even less that is both longitudinal and qualitative in nature. Literature background: Aboriginal young women are overrepresented in the youth homeless population found in Canada’s urban centres. These young women, while experiencing dif...
Rethinking Asset Theory: Applicability to the Survival of Homeless Youth
Author(s): Brenda Elizabeth Munro, Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Lia Ruttan
Publication Date: 2007
The purpose of the study was to explore how homeless youth perceive their choices and make decisions related to their own survival on the street over time and how their choices and the meaning of those choices changes in the period of transitioning out of homelessness. Literature background: The experience, perceptions and identity of homeless youth are notably different from that of homeless adults. Homeless youth are often stigmatized and judge...
Home and Native Land: Aboriginal Young Women and Homelessness in the City
Author(s): Lia Ruttan, Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Brenda Munro
Publication Date: 2010
To explore the complexity of the experience of homeless young women over time. Literature background: In Canadian urban centres (over 100 000), fifty percent of Aboriginal children live in low-income housing as compared to 21.5% of non-Aboriginal children (UNICEF, 2009). Poverty, along with poor quality housing (CMHC, 2003), underlies health and wellness disparities at all ages and in all populations. Critically however, Aboriginal children and y...