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Kassaw, Endris Seid – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of major problems in street life of people at 'risk', the case of Harari Region, Ethiopia. Participants' sex, age and level of education were taken to be variables of the study. The researcher used descriptive survey method to study the problem. Study participants were selected using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Crime, At Risk Persons, Incidence
Gilbert, Tony; Farrand, Paul; Lankshear, Gloria – Youth & Society, 2013
This article reports on interview data gathered from 27 young people involved with a street-level service for young people considered "at risk" of diagnosis of personality disorder. Interviews with a self-selecting sample of young people explored the events that led to their initial contact with the service. Using Silverman's twin-track…
Descriptors: Interviews, At Risk Persons, Personality Problems, Social Capital
Conchas, Gilberto Q.; Vigil, James Diego – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2010
This article conceptualizes the crucial social and developmental features impacting Mexican-descent youth and adolescents in low-income communities in southern California. All youth in these neighborhoods must confront and come to grips with the many environmental, socioeconomic, racial, and cultural forces they confront. However, it is the…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, Neighborhoods, Socialization, Low Income
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
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
Quinlan, Heather Mary; Hadden, Kellie Lynn; Storey, David Paul – Youth & Society, 2022
The purpose of the current study was to explore whether selfcompassion predicted psychological distress over and above childhood maltreatment and attachment orientation in high-risk youths. Fifty-one youths (31 males, 20 females) aged 17 to 24, recruited from a community non-profit organization in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada,…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Emotional Disturbances, Child Abuse, At Risk Persons
Phillips, Hannah – Research in Drama Education, 2016
This article responds to intermediality through a case study of an intermedial applied performance for young people. "Heterophobia," a hybrid fusion of live performance, digital technology, social media and urban street art, aimed to challenge homophobia in schools and online. Intermediality was used as a tool to enhance young people's…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Cultural Influences, Homosexuality, Social Bias
Brown, Jac; Sutton, Jeanna – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2007
The incidence and circumstances of young people carrying knives and dangerous implements was investigated through surveys conducted with 150 "street youth" and 184 "school youth" in Sydney. It was found that a significant proportion of both samples carry and use knives/dangerous implements and that these implements had been…
Descriptors: Incidence, Surveys, Weapons, Violence
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Miller, Abraham – Society, 1973
People on the road seem to arrange themselves according to three main types: students, street and road people, and runaways. From the perspective of conventional society road people are threatening, for the latter have defined dropping out in a way at least appealing to those who cannot conform to the responsibilities of adulthood. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency, Drug Abuse
Oduro, Georgina Yaa – Comparative Education, 2012
Youth-sensitive policies are gradually gaining recognition in Africa. The release of the recent publication "Children in Ghana" by the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC) and UNICEF-Ghana attests to the value the country places on young people's perspectives. Guided by Richardson's conceptual framework on sexual citizenship,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sex Education, Citizenship, Females
Morton, M. H.; Dworsky, A.; Samuels, G. M. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2017
This Research-to-Impact brief is the first in a series by Chapin Hall's Voices of Youth Count on understanding and addressing youth homelessness. "Missed Opportunities: National Estimates" highlights results from a national survey on unaccompanied youth homelessness in America. The study captures youth homelessness broadly, including…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Youth, Young Adults, Adolescents
Sta. Maria, Madelene A.; Martinez, Carmelo L.; Diestro, Jose Maria A., Jr. – Youth & Society, 2014
Focus group discussions with the youth living and working in the streets of Manila as well as interviews with key informants involved in intervention programs for these youth reveal several ways by which the youth may be protected from engaging in problem behaviors in and out of the streets. Findings reveal that conditions which promote the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homeless People, At Risk Persons, Classification
Housand, Angela – Parenting for High Potential, 2016
Today's youth are connected across the street and across the globe in a web of communication like no other generation before. Generation Z, also known as Centennials, are considered "mobile-natives" and are even more technologically savvy then their Millennial predecessors. Nearly three-quarters of children own or have access to a…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Handheld Devices, Adolescents
Yang, K. Wayne – Educational Foundations, 2007
While the major urban centers around the country were flooded by millions of protesters demanding immigrant rights in March 2006, the San Francisco Bay Area remained relatively quiet. A coalition of organizers, including Centro Legal de la Raza, Deporten A La Migra, and the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition mobilized a one-week hunger strike,…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Legislators, Immigrants, Computer Mediated Communication
Tyler, Kimberly A.; Whitbeck, Les B.; Hoyt, Dan R.; Cauce, Ana Mari – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2004
Risk factors associated with the likelihood of being sexually victimized by a stranger or friend/acquaintance since being on the street was examined among 372 homeless and runaway youth. Young people were interviewed on the streets and in shelters by outreach workers using a systematic sampling strategy. Youth who engaged in more high-risk…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Sexual Abuse, At Risk Persons, Runaways