Homeless Youth

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Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
Pelosi, Alexandra
Film
2010
Follows a group of children as their families struggle to live survive in one of the country's wealthiest areas.
Homeless and Hungry at College: Falling Through the Safety Net
Turl, Adam
Article
2010
With students and their family members losing jobs as tuition increases escalate and social services are cut, more and more students are falling through the tattered social safety net.
Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision
Fisher, Kevin & Collins, John (eds)
Book
Drawing on their extensive background in working with the homeless in East London, the editors look at the subject from different perspectives. There are chapters on mental heath, substance abuse, yo...
Street children: New Internationalist April 2005 - #377
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2005
A look at the lives of street children around the world. Discussion of the challenges they face day-to-day and what some are forced to do to survive.
Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History
Palmer, Bryan D.; Heroux, Gaetan
Book
2016
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food an...

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Raising the Roof
Raising the Roof is Canada's only national charity dedicated to long-term solutions to homelessness. We work nationally, regionally and locally to bring about lasting solutions to homelessness. What ...

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All Our Sisters
Stories of Homeless Women in Canada
Scott, Susan
2007
The author conducted sixty interviews with homeless women from Vancouver to Ottawa. This investigative reporter has organized the interviews in chapters dealing with the impact of housing policies, vi...