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‘Conflict with the Law’: Regulation & Homeless Youth Trajectories toward Stability
Author(s): Marianne Quirouette, Tyler Frederick, Jean Hughes, Jeff Karabanow
Publication Date: 2016
Youth without housing experience more regulation and conflict with criminal justice than their housed counterparts. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with fifty-one young people, we focus on how efforts to move away from homelessness towards long-term housing stability are impacted by conflict with law, a term referring to a broad range of experiences with various authorities in the legal system, social services, shelters, etc. Our paper come...
Toward Housing Stability: Exiting Homelessness as an Emerging Adult
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow, Sean Kidd, Tyler Frederick, Jean Hughes
Publication Date: 2016
This paper explores the lives of formerly homeless young people as they transitioned towards housing stability. The study employed a longitudinal design involving 51 street youth in Halifax, N.S. (n = 21) and Toronto, ON (n = 30). This paper sheds light upon the pathways through which young people transitioned away from homelessness using the developmental lens of emerging adulthood: a stage involving numerous developmental struggles (identity, i...
Using Art to Tell Stories and Build Safe Spaces: Transforming Academic Research Into Action
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow, Ted Naylor
Publication Date: 2015
This paper explores how art can be used to tell stories and actively build safe spaces, and grew out of reflections from a capacity-building and knowledge translation/mobilization project involving 7 young people living on the streets. The paper considers how research can contribute to an examination of anti-oppressive practice and methodology, and an application of it in the field through an arts-based agenda. Conceptually, the paper takes up th...
A Mixed Methods Study of Recently Homeless Youth Efforts to Sustain Housing and Stability
Author(s): Sean Kidd, Tyler Frederick, Jeff Karabanow, Jean Hughes, Ted Naylor, Skye Barbic
Publication Date: 2016
This study examined the process of establishing post homeless lives among 51 recently homeless youth in two major urban centers in Canada. A mixed methods strategy was employed to characterize this process. Quantitatively, a range of mental health, community integration, and quality of life measures were employed four times over the course of 1 year to describe how these indicators of wellbeing shifted in this period. It was found that over the c...
How Stable is Stable? Defining and Measuring Housing Stability
Author(s): Tyler J. Frederick, Michal Chwalek, Jean Hughes, Jeff Karabanow, Sean Kidd
Publication Date: 2014
Despite housing stability being a key concept in housing and homelessness policy, research, and service provision, it remains poorly defined and conceptualized, and to date there are no standard measures. We use in-depth qualitative interviews with 51 young people transitioning away homelessness over the course of a year to examine the core dimensions of housing stability. Due to the potential for sudden change, we define housing stability as the...
Brief report: Youth pathways out of homelessness – Preliminary findings
Author(s): Sean Kidd, Jeff Karabanow, Jean Hughes, Tyler Frederick
Publication Date: 2013
While there exists an extensive body of knowledge regarding the risks associated with youth homelessness, very little work has addressed the process of exiting street contexts. This paper reports baseline findings from an ongoing longitudinal study assessing factors associated with a successful transition out of homelessness. Fifty-one formerly homeless youth who obtained stable housing in the past 2 months to 2 years participated in this study wh...
Open for Business: Exploring the Life Stages of Two Canadian Street Youth Shelters
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow
Publication Date: 2002
Youth shelters have emerged as significant resources for homeless and runaway adolescents. Through participant observations of shelter culture, review of agency archival materials, and in-depth interviews with 21 shelter workers (front line staff, middle managers, and upper-level executives), this analysis explores the life stages of two Canadian street youth shelters, highlighting the dramatic transformations in their internal operations and ext...
Key challenges in providing services to people who use drugs: The perspectives of people working in emergency departments and shelters in Atlantic Canada
Author(s): Lois A. Jackson, Susan McWilliam, Fiona Martin, Julie Dingwell, Margaret Dykeman, Jacqueline Gahagan, Jeff Karabanow
Publication Date: 2014
Aims: Many people who use drugs (PWUD) have multiple health and social needs, and research suggests that this population is increasingly accessing emergency departments (EDs) and shelters for health care and housing. This qualitative study explored the practices of those working in EDs and shelters when providing services to PWUD, with a particular focus on key challenges in service provision. Methods: EDs and shelters were conceptualized as ‘mi...
Street Youth Labor as an Expression of Survival and Self-Worth: Voices from Youth in Guatemala City
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow, Elissa Gurman, Ted Naylor
Publication Date: 2012
This paper explores the ways in which employment/ labor are situated within the daily lives of Guatemalan street youth. The youth interviewed primarily engaged in informal money-making activities. These activities not only demonstrate the entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and resilience of street-involved young people, but their need to undertake any number of often undesirable tasks to survive. Findings from this study suggest that such work c...
Street Youth and Information Technology: An Exploration of Social Inclusion and Exclusion
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow, Ted D. Naylor
Publication Date: 2007
The vast majority of research concerning street youth has focused upon etiology and street culture. Such investigations have been concerned with how young people enter street life and the myriad of activities associated with street survival. This paper takes a different, yet complimentary, approach and highlights the experiences of 20 Halifax street youth vis-à-vis information-communication technologies (ICTs). This study begins to explo...
The Economics of Being Young and Poor: How Homeless Youth Survive in Neo-liberal Times
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow, Jean Hughes, Jann Ticknor, Sean Kidd, Dorothy Patterson
Publication Date: 2010
Based upon in-depth interviews with 34 youth in Halifax and seven service providers in St. John's, Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary, the findings of this study suggest that labour occurs within a particular street context and street culture. Formal and informal work can be inter-related, and despite the hardships they experience, young people who are homeless or who are at-risk of homelessness can respond to their circumstances...
Creating Community: a case study of a Montreal street kid agency
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow
Publication Date: 1999
With the adoption of free market economics and neo-conservative policies by governments around the world, grass-roots organizations are increasingly playing important roles in the lives of marginalized populations. The future of community development rests upon the courage and imagination of local initiatives. This paper explores the implementation and development of one such project: Dans La Rue (On The Street), an emergency street kid shelter s...
The power of relationships: Implications for safer and unsafe practices among injection drug users
Author(s): Lois A. Jackson, Joanne Parker, Margaret Dykeman, Jacqueline Gahagan, Jeff Karabanow
Publication Date: 2009
Aims: To explore the influence of social relationships, at the interpersonal and community level, on safer and unsafe drug use practices among injection drug users (IDUs) in Nova Scotia, Canada. Method: Thirty-eight current injection drug users were recruited through two needle exchange programs. Fifteen women and 23 men participated in semi-structured interviews about their daily lives, relationships and safer/unsafe drug use and sexual pract...
Intimate relationships and women involved in the sex trade: perceptions and experiences of inclusion and exclusion
Author(s): Lois A. Jackson, Tod Augusta-Scott, Marilee Burwash-Brennan, Jeff Karabanow, Karen Robertson, Barbara Sowinski
Publication Date: 2009
This article reports on a qualitative study exploring the intimate (non-work) relationships of women involved in the sex trade. Women working in the sex industry and intimate partners of women in the industry were interviewed in order to understand how intimate relationships are perceived as influencing the women's general health and well-being. The research suggests that intimate relationships can, and do, provide a space for feelings of inclusi...
Can You Be Healthy on the Street?: Exploring the Health Experiences of Halifax Street Youth
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow, Sharon Hopkins, Steve Kisely, Joanne Parker, Jean Hughes, Jacqueline Gahagan, Leslie Anne Campbell
Publication Date: 2007
Th is pilot study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and offers an examination of the experiences and perceptions of street youth vis-à-vis their health status. Th rough in-depth interviews and a short quantitative survey with 15 street-involved youth in Halifax, Nova Scotia, this paper explores healthy and not-so healthy practices of young people living on the street. Qualitative interviews with ten health care and...
Getting off the Street: Exploring the Processes of Young People’s Street Exits
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow
Publication Date: 2008
This article explores the ways in which young people across Canada attempt to exit street life. Through semistructured interviews with 128 young people and 50 service providers in six Canadian cities, the goal of the research was to identify the strategies and challenges of street exiting to inform service providers and policy makers as to the complexities and struggles involved in young people's experiences with street disengagement. Findings su...
When difference matters: Matching service delivery to diverse street youth populations
Author(s): Jean Hughes, Jeff Karabanow, Joanne Parker, Jacqueline Gahagan, Stephen Kisely
Publication Date: 2006
This paper uses research findings, literature, and field observations to describe the heterogeneity of Canadian and Halifax street youth, and the services they rely upon for survival.
Becoming a Street Kid: Exploring the Stages of Street Life
Author(s): Jeff Karabanow
Publication Date: 2006
This analysis explores the perceptions of youth on the street in constructing identity throughout their street life experiences. Data collection involved in-depth interviews with 98 street youth & 42 service providers in Toronto, Montreal, & Halifax, & participant & non-participant observations of street life & shelter culture in all three locations. The findings highlight the stages of "becoming a...
A Clash of Cultures: Rural Values and Service Delivery to Mistreated and Neglected Older People in Eastern Canada
Author(s): Joan Harbison, Stephen Coughlan, Jeff Karabanow, Madine VanderPlaat
Publication Date: 2005
There is considerable evidence to suggest that older people living in situations of mistreatment and neglect are reluctant to accept help. This is attributed to the high value that older generations place on their privacy and family integrity, and on their ability to cope and remain in charge of their lives. These values are particularly strong in rural communities. The paper explores the challenges these cultural norms pose for formal and inform...
The Nature and Effectiveness of Program Models for Adolescents at Risk of Entering the Formal Child Protection System
Author(s): Gary Cameron, Jeff Karabanow
Publication Date: 2003
Compares rationales and outcome research for five areas of programming for maltreated and other at-risk adolescents: adolescent competence and skills development programs, family- and parent-focused programs, social integration programs, multiple component programs, and neighborhood transformation programs. Finds that several program models have demonstrated or potential benefits for at-risk youth and families, and recommends that helping strateg...