More than a Roof and a Key Required: Exploration of Guiding Principles for Stabilizing the Housing Trajectories of Youth Who Have Experienced Homelessness
department or school: Medicine, Faculty of
department or school: Non UBC
department or school: Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Department of
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identifier citation: Youth 4 (2): 931-949 (2024)
creator: de Pass, Timothy
creator: Dada, Oluwagbenga
creator: John, Joyce
creator: Daley, Mardi
creator: Mushquash, Chris
creator: Abramovich, Alex
creator: Barbic, Skye
creator: Frederick, Tyler
creator: Kozloff, Nicole
creator: McKenzie, Kwame
creator: Stergiopoulos, Vicky
creator: Vitopoulos, Nina
creator: Kidd, Sean A.
issued: 2024-07-03T21:52:30Z
issued: 2024-06-17
description: Youth homelessness represents a persistent and significant challenge for service sectors with limited best practice guidance. Housing supports, in particular, are widely deployed, with the practice-oriented literature providing little detail regarding service design beyond broad domains such as employment support and life skills coaching. The present multiple case study investigation was designed to develop a preliminary understanding of the guiding principles that attend the development of interventions that support youth exiting homelessness in the Canadian context. These case studies were conducted with a diverse group of five organizations recognized as sector leaders, with findings considered in light of practice standards from the better-established adult housing literature. Key findings with respect to service models included the strategies used to provide flexible, culturally responsive, tailored services with an emphasis on specialist support. Implementation factors included the navigation of strategic partnerships, the use of data in capacity-building, and the benefits and drawbacks of larger, centralized service environments versus smaller, dispersed environments. Youth-specific considerations in housing stabilization models are highlighted. This work contributes to a growing body of literature that seeks to articulate best practices in the effort to address and prevent youth homelessness.
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note: Citation: de Pass, T.; Dada, O.; John,J.; Daley, M.; Mushquash, C.;Abramovich, A.; Barbic, S.; Frederick,T.; Kozloff, N.; McKenzie, K.; et al.More than a Roof and a Key Required:Exploration of Guiding Principles forStabilizing the Housing Trajectories ofYouth Who Have ExperiencedHomelessness. Youth 2024, 4, 931–949.https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4020059Academic Editors: Pamela Nilanand Diego Gomez-BayaReceived: 23 November 2023Revised: 6 June 2024Accepted: 12 June 2024Published: 17 June 2024Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).ArticleMore than a Roof and a Key Required: Exploration of GuidingPrinciples for Stabilizing the Housing Trajectories of Youth WhoHave Experienced HomelessnessTimothy de Pass 1,*, Oluwagbenga Dada 2, Joyce John 1, Mardi Daley 1, Chris Mushquash 3, Alex Abramovich 1,4,5 ,Skye Barbic 6, Tyler Frederick 7, Nicole Kozloff 1,4 , Kwame McKenzie 1,4,8, Vicky Stergiopoulos 1,4,Nina Vitopoulos 1 and Sean A. Kidd 1,41 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada; joycerjohn@gmail.com (J.J.);mardi.daley@camh.ca (M.D.); alex.abramovich@camh.ca (A.A.); nicole.kozloff@camh.ca (N.K.);kwame@wellesleyinstitute.com (K.M.); vicky.stergiopoulos@camh.ca (V.S.); nina.vitopoulos@camh.ca (N.V.);sean.kidd@camh.ca (S.A.K.)2 MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada;oluwagbenga.dada@unityhealth.to3 Department of Psychology and NOSM, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada;cjmushqu@lakeheadu.ca4 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada5 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada6 Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; skye.b…
has type: Article
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0444073
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/youth4020059
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: homeless youth
subject: housing
subject: stabilization
subject: youth homelessness prevention
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88564