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On Her Own - Young Women and Homelessness in Canada

Author : Sylvia Novac
Publisher : Condition féminine Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book On Her Own - Young Women and Homelessness in Canada written by Sylvia Novac and published by Condition féminine Canada. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report explores the causes, demographics and patterns of homelessness among young women (aged 12 to 24) in Canada. It includes case study reports for eight cities based on interviews with more than 100 informants and previously unpublished data. Gender-and age-specific issues (ie, sexual violence, pregnancy, service gaps for mid-teens, minors and the child welfare system) are discussed. A critical review of programs and policies shows how they fail to assist young women who are homeless and those at risk. The report includes suggestions for change in services and programs, and recommendations for policy directions by various governments."--http://www.homelesshub.ca/

On Her Own - Young Women and Homelessness in Canada

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Healing Home

Author : Vanessa Oliver
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442613440
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Healing Home written by Vanessa Oliver and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on research that was awarded the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women's access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes. In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by foregrounding the narratives of the women themselves, Oliver empowers a sub-section of the population that traditionally has not had a voice in determining policies that shape their realities. Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.

No Room of Her Own

Author : Sylvia Novac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book No Room of Her Own written by Sylvia Novac and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report is based on a review of the recent literature on women and homelessness, including the role of violence against women, health factors, and shelter provision."--http://www.homelesshub.ca.

Safe Haven

Author : Rae Bridgman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802080844
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Safe Haven written by Rae Bridgman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, urban anthropologist Rae Bridgman, in careful and intimate detail, explores the perspectives of the women who work and live at Savard's, a unique shelter for homeless women. Bridgman uses the design and development of Savard's - a housing model developed by women for women - as an opportunity to document the project's original vision and what happened once it opened. There are few rules at Savard's. Women may come and go as they wish, and referrals to other services are made only when a woman has indicated interest in taking action on her own behalf. It is a model that aims to provide a safe haven for the chronically homeless. The study traces the evolution of this type of shelter, providing qualitative research and useful analysis for academics, policy-makers, service providers, and activists. Based on many hours of participant observation as well as interviews and staff records, Safe Haven presents a distinct picture of the chronically homeless and those on the frontlines of this lifesaving service.

Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada

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Publisher : The Homeless Hub
ISBN 13 : 0772714754
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada written by and published by The Homeless Hub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Within the Confines

Author : Jennifer M. Kilty
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 0889615160
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Within the Confines written by Jennifer M. Kilty and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western feminists have long treated the rule of law as an essential ingredient of social justice; however, as the contributors to this collection remind us, meaningful justice remains out of reach for many women and racialized minorities precisely because the law turns a blind eye to the inequities that structure their daily lives. In fourteen chapters that open vital debates about the erosion of the welfare state and the media's complicity in concealing political injustice, Within the Confines details the brutal ironies of a society that criminalizes the vulnerable while absolving the elite. Distinctive in its focus on Canada, the book traces the linkages among racial, ethnic, sexual, and economic vulnerability and reveals the inadequacies of legislative approaches to socio-historical problems such as drug trafficking, homelessness, infanticide, and the legacies of settler colonial violence. In accessible prose, the authors dismantle the myths behind topics that are often sensationalized in the media-pornography, single motherhood, sex work, filicide, gangs, domestic abuse, prison conditions, HIV nondisclosure-and present alternative arguments that expose the justice system's role in widening the gap between the rich and the poor. What emerges is a poignant challenge to the neoliberal fable that women and minorities in Western democracies now enjoy full equality and an urgent call to action for those who seek to shift institutional norms in more equitable directions. A valuable resource for a wide range of fields, including criminology, sociology, social anthropology, gender studies, political science, social work, and legal history, this multidisciplinary volume offers a fresh perspective on the disturbingly predictable judgments that criminalized women face in Canada.

Healing Home

Author : Vanessa Oliver
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442662360
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Healing Home written by Vanessa Oliver and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women’s access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes. In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by foregrounding the narratives of the women themselves, Oliver empowers a sub-section of the population that traditionally has not had a voice in determining policies that shape their realities. Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.

On Her Own

Author : Hilary R. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book On Her Own written by Hilary R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health

Author : Cheryl Forchuk
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551303906
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health written by Cheryl Forchuk and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some say mental illness is the last great stigma remaining in our communities. This book is a collection of twenty articles written by researchers, scholars, practitioners of nursing, social work, and community health, and survivors of mental illness and homelessness. Each piece speaks to a specific aspect of the linkages among housing/homelessness, poverty, and mental illness.

Being Heard

Author : Kelly Gorkoff
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1773634682
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Being Heard written by Kelly Gorkoff and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-10T00:00:00Z with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Heard examines, from their own perspectives and experiences, the lives of young women sexually exploited through prostitution. Putting their voices in the centre of its analysis, the book tries to help us more fully understand the experiences of girls exploited through prostitution, the complex issues of sex trade work and the ways to best respond to the issues. Beginning with a discussion of what little we know about youth prostitution, subsequent chapters address young women’s experiences with community and government programs, issues of self-identity, health and safety concerns, experiences of violence, factors that push young women into and may draw them out of sex trade work, and the effectiveness of Canadian legislation in coming to the aid of young prostitutes. The book is based on a four-year research project undertaken with Prairie women involved in sex trade work as youth and those who provide programming for them.

IBSS: Sociology: 2002 Vol.52

Author : Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134339887
Total Pages : 1023 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book IBSS: Sociology: 2002 Vol.52 written by Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 1023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features * Authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. *Breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. *International Coverage: the IBSS reviews scholarship published in over 30 languages, including publications from Eastern Europe and the developing world. *User friendly organization: all non-English titles are word sections. Extensive author, subject and place name indexes are provided in both English and French. Place your standing order now for the 2002 volumes of the the IBSS Anthropology: 2002 Vol.48 December 2003: 234x156: Hb: 0-415-32634-6: £195.00 Economics: 2002 Vol.51 December 2003: 234x156: Hb: 0-415-32635-4: £195.00 Political Science: 2002 Vol.51 December 2003: 234x156: Hb: 0-415-32636-2: £195.00 Sociology: 2002 Vol.52 December 2003: 234x156: Hb: 0-415-32637-0: £195.00

Home Words

Author : Mavis Reimer
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587727
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Home Words written by Mavis Reimer and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children’s and national literatures. Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children’s literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children’s literature.

Community Mental Health in Canada

Author : Simon Davis
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077484132X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Community Mental Health in Canada written by Simon Davis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Canada, at least 5 percent of the population suffers from a serious, persistent mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. While recent years have seen many changes and improvements in the way we respond to the needs of mentally ill persons, there remain divisions of opinion among stakeholder groups about the way mental health services are delivered. Community Mental Health in Canada offers a timely, critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada, looking at where we have come from, the current situation, and where we may be heading. Concise, yet comprehensive, coverage includes: the prevalence and impact of mental illness in Canada the complementary and conflicting interests of stakeholder groups, such as mental health professionals, clients, families, government, and drug companies current and developing initiatives in treatment, rehabilitation, housing, and criminal justice programs the clinical benefits and costs of particular interventions, among them pharmacotherapy and cognitive-behavioural treatments the recovery model diversity and cultural competence the legal and ethical basis of mental health practice, particularly as it applies to the use of coercion and involuntary treatment Community Mental Health in Canada fills a gap in the literature in its analysis of both clinical mental health practice as well as the structural context within which it is situated. An indispensable resource for students, practitioners, and policymakers, it also is essential reading for all those interested in how services are provided to our most vulnerable citizens.

Despotic Dominion

Author : John McLaren
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774810739
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Despotic Dominion written by John McLaren and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together a variety of perspectives to provide a comprehensive analysis of the important issue of property rights, which continues to animate the body politic of Australia and Canada in particular. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial history, property theory, indigenous studies, and law, as well as to judges, lawyers, and the inquisitive general reader."--BOOK JACKET.

On the Street

Author : Barbara Murphy
Publisher : J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Street written by Barbara Murphy and published by J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More people are now living below the poverty line in Canada that at any previous time in our history, even as our society as a whole becomes more afluent. At the same time, the middle class is reclaiming the inner cities, replacing old affordable housing for the poor with upscale real estate. And mentally ill Canadians, traditionally cared for in institutions, have been moved en masse into local communities which have neither planned for the influx nor allocated the resources for dealing with the strain it has put on special housing. The convergence of these economic, social and health care trends has left thousands homeless. Barbara Murphy's On the Street examines the circumstances that have led to this situation and explores possible remedies. Her cogent arguments and lucid style make this a must-read for any Canadian who cares about the kind of society we are creating.

Community Mental Health in Canada, Revised and Expanded Edition

Author : Simon Davis
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774827009
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Community Mental Health in Canada, Revised and Expanded Edition written by Simon Davis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Mental Health in Canada offers a timely, critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada, past, present, and future. This new edition has been substantially revised and expanded and includes a deeper discussion of stigma, the recovery vision, the pharmaceutical industry, and mental health law, in addition to an array of new topics. Recent developments such as the creation of the Mental Health Commission of Canada in 2007 and the release of its national mental health strategy document in 2012 are also discussed. Accessibly written and highly informative, it is an indispensable resource for students, practitioners, and policy makers, as well as service recipients and their families.