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The changing face of youth homelessness: trends in homeless young people's support needs
- Author:
- CENTREPOINT
- Publisher:
- Centrepoint
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Youth homelessness is usually more than just a housing problem, and is experienced in conjunction with a range of other problems and needs to create a web of disadvantage. For example, mental health problems and experiences of care increase young people’s chances of using illegal drugs and having a history of offending. This research investigated the complex support needs of homeless young people. It aimed to map the nature of homeless young people’s support needs and how they interrelate, as well as trends over time. It also looked at how effectively these needs are being met, and identified gaps in current provision. A snapshot needs assessment survey collecting data on the support needs of every young person at Centrepoint was conducted and interviews were completed with frontline and management staff from youth homelessness services across the country. This report considers the results with regard to: education and employment; health and well-being; substance misuse; and destructive behaviour. The report concludes that it is vital that the Government and local authorities acknowledge and address homeless young people’s complex needs when developing strategies and making funding decisions, to ensure that this vulnerable group are not further marginalised.
Outcome of long stay psychiatric patients resettled in the community: prospective cohort study
- Authors:
- TRIEMAN Noam, LEFF Julian, GYLES Glover
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 3.7.99, 1999, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
This research examines the outcome of psychiatric patients resettled in the community in residential settings in north London over a 5 year period. The main outcome measures include continuity and quality of residential care, readmission to hospital, mortality, crime and vagrancy. Results found that nearly 90 percent of those surviving the period were living in the community after the follow up, with crime and homelessness presenting few problems. Concludes that when carefully planned and adequately resourced , community care for long stay psychiatric patients is beneficial to most individuals and has minimal detrimental effects on society.
Mental health and social exclusion: consultation document; May 2003
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health problems often co-exist with other problems such as substance misuse, homelessness, poor physical health and learning disabilities. The precise nature and impact of these conditions varies significantly from individual to individual. They are also rarely static during a person's life, and can change, disappear and re-appear. Mental health problems can be seen as both a consequence and a cause of social exclusion. A range of risk factors influence the development of mental health problems. These include socio-economic disadvantage, neighbourhood violence and crime, unemployment, poor educational attainment, being a member of a minority group and being a lone parent or teenage mother
Petersburg in the early 90's: crazy, cold, cruel.
- Author:
- CHARITABLE FOUNDATION NOCHLEZHKA
- Publisher:
- Charitable Foundation Nochlezhka
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 255p.
- Place of publication:
- St. Petersburg
Articles on the social changes taking place in St. Petersburg, after the euphoria of perestroika had evaporated. Social problems looked at include: homelessness, unemployment, homeless children living on the streets, crime, and poverty. Places these issues in the context of the ineffectiveness of state social policy and the role social work could play in alleviating these problems.