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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...
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...