scholarly journals Challenges and Support for LGBTQ+ At-Risk Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy L. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Support Structure ◽  
Structure Level

The number of people who identify as LGBTQ+ has been increasing, especially amongst young people. The LGBTQ+ community faces many challenges. This paper examines responses to at-risk youth who identify as LGBTQ+ in Edmonton, Canada and L’viv, Ukraine from a family structure level, social support structure level, and governmental programs or policies. It also explores how different reactions - such as feminism or patriarchy – have specific implications for these youth. Finally, it looks at how support, activism, advocacy and acceptance, or fear and anger, can create a change within society.

Multiple Perspectives of Social Support and Organizational Practices for At-Risk Youth

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Crouch ◽  
Luciano Berardi ◽  
Terrinieka Williams ◽  
Sangeeta Parikshak ◽  
Susan McMahon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
At Risk ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Multiple Perspectives

Fanfic’ing Film

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Andrew Scahill
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Queer Youth

Fairy Tales Film Festival 2018, Calgary Queer Arts Society, Youth Queer Media ProgramFor the study of youth in cinema, we, as scholars, must always remind ourselves that most images we analyze are created by adults representing youth, not by youth representing themselves. As such, they represent an idea of youth—a memory, a trauma, a wish. They are stories these adults tell themselves about what they need youth to be in that moment. Coming out becomes the singular narrative of queer youth, and positions adulthood as a safe and stable destination after escaping the traumatic space of adolescence. The stories in these films provide important moments for adult queers to “feel backward” (2009: 7) as Heather Love says, and to process the pain of a queer childhood. And for young people exploring their sexuality, these stories are essential for at-risk youth who feel hopeless, trapped, or alone.

scholarly journals Shaping the Selves of “At Risk” Youth in Debt and Poverty in the Context of Economic Vulnerability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalle Mäkelä ◽  
Elina Ikävalko ◽  
Kristiina Brunila
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Neoliberal Governmentality ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Work Training

AbstractDrawing on two interrelated areas of youth work, outreach youth work as a place of coordination of work, social benefits and social services, and youth workshops as a place for work training for young people “at risk”, our aim in this article is to analyse how young people in poor financial circumstances are governed through policies and practices in these institutions in Finland. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with young people and professionals working with young people, we ask how the subjectivities of young people “at risk” (and particularly those in debt and poverty) are shaped in the context of economic vulnerability. This shaping is not only from top-down dimensional formation of a subject, but also from the multidimensional flow of power/knowledge via subjects that sometimes possess opportunities of acting otherwise, as delineated in the end of our analysis. In the context of ubiquitous neoliberal governmentality, we delineated a landscape of survival strategies for economically vulnerable young people in these power/knowledge relations.

scholarly journals The Sustainability of the Youth Foyer Model: A Comparison of the UK and Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Steen ◽  
David MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Supportive Housing ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
National Context ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Cost

The youth foyer model was designed to provide a package of support, including accommodation to homeless or at-risk young people, based on participation in education, training and/or employment as a supported transition to independent living and a sustainable livelihood. Commencing in the early 1990s, the UK has developed a large number of foyers while Australia is a relative newcomer to this kind of supportive youth housing. Unlike in the UK, existing and proposed Australian foyer income generated from current benefits and subsidies is not sufficient to cover the cost of support. We highlight the need for an extensible source of funding specifically for supportive housing for homeless and at-risk youth in order to ensure the financial sustainability and therefore replicability of the foyer model in Australia. We also discuss some issues relating to the translation of the model from one national context to another.

Technologies of evidence: An institutional ethnography from the standpoints of ‘youth-at-risk’

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Nichols
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Youth At Risk

In this article, I investigate the social relations of evidence that transverse and connect schools, homes, the streets, and the courts. This institutional ethnography begins in the standpoints of racialised and ‘at-risk youth’ to investigate how institutional practices – embedded in and constitutive of the new relations of capital and exchange referred to as the knowledge economy – (re)produce intersecting social relations of objectification and exclusion. Beginning with young people’s experiences of silencing and misrepresentation in public sector institutions, the article examines how different forms of evidence are produced and used across the various institutional settings where young people are active. The study demonstrates how seemingly objective institutional processes actually produce the experiences of diminishment and exclusion that young people described.

scholarly journals The Importance of Significant Others in Preventing Extremism: The Philosophy and Practice of the Swedish Tolerance Project

Young ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-438
Author(s):  
Alida Skiple
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Democratic Dialogue ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Broad Understanding

This article concerns a specific educational programme to reduce recruitment to racist and extreme organizations in Sweden. The programme is called the Tolerance Project, and it functions as an elective course offered to a selected group of young people. Looking into assumptions and ideas underlying the programme, the article describes the importance of significant others in preventing extremism. Data consist of descriptions of the programme and field notes obtained from course participation and talking to course leaders. The tolerance educators express a broad understanding of socialization, in which parents are considered as important conversation partners, and that their own job is to facilitate democratic dialogue. Most notably, the course creates new peer constellations and encourages participants to become ‘ambassadors of tolerance’, able to confront intolerance in the arenas in which they are normally located. The overall idea is to improve the various social contexts in which potential ‘at-risk’ youth are located.

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