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Shantá R. Robinson – Current Issues in Education, 2024
Twenty-seven years ago, the documentary "Hoop Dreams" solidified a theory--that the world of athletics was one of the few places where adolescent Black males could find success. By the late 1990s, researchers were framing athletics as the next direction in the Civil Rights Movement. In this article, I argue that the historical framing of…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Adolescents, Athletics
Crawford, Rachel; Kyakuwa, Fred; Walker, Katharine – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2023
A 10 week supportive arts program was conducted in Jinja, Uganda via the collaboration between a local nongovernmental organization, a Ugandan artist, and two art therapists from the United States. The artist facilitated weekly artmaking sessions for former unhoused youth being served by the organization, as well as engaged in weekly virtual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artists, Art Therapy, Allied Health Personnel
VanMeeter, Mallory; Curry, Susanna R.; Tully, Brenda A.; Ault, Stacey; Nesmith, Ande; White, Jacqueline – Youth & Society, 2023
Couch hopping is a significant feature of youth homelessness in the United States. Every year, half of youth ages 18 to 25 who experience housing instability report couch hopping--also known as couch surfing or doubling up. Emerging work suggests that in some intergenerational informal hosting arrangements, youth and their adult hosts can form…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Homeless People, Adults
Robinson, Shantá R. – Urban Education, 2022
This year-long ethnographic study explored the occupational aspirations and informal educational experiences of 25 diverse homeless adolescents who found social welfare assistance through Empower, a nonprofit organization. Using organizational habitus and intersectionality as theoretical frameworks and constant comparative analysis, I found that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Homeless People, Minority Groups, Welfare Services
Judy Y. Tan; G. Allen Ratliff; Ilsa Lund; Sherilyn Adams; Colette Auerswald; Marguerita Lightfoot – Youth & Society, 2024
Services for youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) are designed with limited input from the youth themselves. This study explored the experiences and recommendations for services aimed at mitigating the negative effects of homelessness among youth. A total of 45 interviews were conducted with YEH (ages 15 to 24, M = 21.5 years) who experienced at…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Adolescents, Young Adults, Intervention
Kristie Lynn Coker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The middle school years are marked by a critical interplay of biological, cognitive, and social development, which collectively shape adolescents' experiences and developmental trajectories. Recognizing the complexity of these processes is crucial for creating nurturing environments that support adolescents' academic, social, and emotional…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescents, LGBTQ People, Homeless People
Children's Bureau, Office of the Administration for Children & Families, 2023
To measure the outcomes of youth transitioning out of foster care, states are required to administer the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) survey to cohorts of youth at ages 17, 19, and 21. With this third cohort of young people having completed all three waves of data collection, researchers better understand the experiences of current…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Surveys, Transitional Programs
National Center for Homeless Education, 2023
Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Act, reauthorized in 2015 by Title IX, Part A of the "Every Student Succeeds Act" guarantees a child or youth identified as homeless the right to attend either the school of origin or the local attendance area school in the area in which they are currently residing. This brief explains the provisions…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Julien, Gabriel – Educational Research and Reviews, 2021
This research was conducted at Sunshine in Trinidad and Tobago and highlights the voices of seventeen street children. Although they live at Sunshine many of them continue to frequent the streets. Published research indicates that there exists a paucity of information about the lives and experiences of these children. It is important that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homeless People, Experience, Attitudes
Herbers, Janette E.; Cutuli, J. J.; Keane, Joanna N.; Leonard, Jake A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
School districts and other service providers are increasingly aware of the substantial mental health needs of students experiencing family homelessness. Past findings are mixed regarding whether homelessness conveys unique risk beyond the risks associated with extreme poverty. With prospective longitudinal data on homelessness experiences across…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Homeless People, Early Experience
Edmonds, Ruth; Ochaya, Alfred; Sansom, Nicola – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This article explores the role resilience processes play in education and well-being outcomes for street-connected children. It draws on research and practice undertaken as part of the Building with Bamboo Programme (BwB) on resilience. BwB investigated the forms a resilience-based approach might usefully take in practice, the effect this has on…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Well Being, Foreign Countries, Homeless People
Kull, Melissa A.; Dworsky, Amy; Horwitz, Beth; Farrell, Anne F. – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
When families experience homelessness, both parents and children are adversely affected. The effects of homelessness may be even more profound when both the children and parents are young. Using developmental and ecological lenses, the authors describe how homelessness complicates the tasks facing young parents and their children in the early…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Early Parenthood, Parents, Children
Dina Burstein; Eliza Loren Purdue; Jennifer A. Jones; Janis L. Breeze; Ye Chen; Robert Sege – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
Gender minority (GM) students are at high risk for substance use and depression. This study explores the role of protective factors in reducing rates of substance use and depression based on high school surveys. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to evaluate the association between exposures and outcomes. Youth completed surveys…
Descriptors: Adolescents, LGBTQ People, At Risk Persons, Substance Abuse
Jamie A. Spiegel; Paulo A. Graziano; Emily Arcia; Shana K. Cox; Muriel Ayala; Nicole A. Carnero; Noelle L. O'Mara; Sundari Foundation – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2022
Children and adolescents ("youth") experiencing homelessness are at a disproportionately high risk of exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTE). However, limited evidence exists as to what interventions are effective when implemented with this high-risk population. The purpose of this study was to (1) document the mental health and…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Homeless People, At Risk Persons
Wiseman, Alexander W.; Damaschke-Deitrick, Lisa; Park, Maureen F.; Bell, Joel C. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
This research examines the gap between federal and state legal standards and policies related to educational provision for school-age youth detained in the United States, and secondary evidence documenting the educational services that are provided to unaccompanied im/migrant children in federal custody. The educational provision for unaccompanied…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Immigrants, Institutionalized Persons, Access to Education