Risk and Resilience Factors for Youth Homelessness in Western Countries: A Systematic Review

Grattan, Rebecca E.; Tryon, Valerie L.; Lara, Natalia; Gabrielian, Sonya; Melnikow, Joy; Niendam, Tara

doi:10.1176/appi.ps.202000133

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“…For younger children, these same pathways can also be precursors to child safety involvement (Flatau et al, 2015;Johnson & Chamberlain, 2008;MacKenzie et al, 2016). Emerging research suggests the two are independently associated (Dworsky et al, 2013;Dworsky & Courtney, 2009;Grattan et al, 2022;Patterson et al, 2015). In a systematic review of 16 studies, child safety involvement, and specifically out-of-home care (OOHC), was identified as a statistically significant risk factor for youth homelessness in 6 of them (2 others found no effect) (Grattan et al, 2022).…”

Section: Child Safety and Homelessnessmentioning

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Pathways Into Couchsurfing From Child Safety Involvement

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Vichta-Ohlsen²

2023

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Couchsurfing, or temporarily staying with friends, extended family, acquaintances, or strangers, is a growing form of homelessness within Australia, and particularly concentrated among youth. System involvement with child welfare and its link to youth homelessness has previously been well-established, but not within the context of couchsurfing. In interviews with 19 young people with both couchsurfing and a history of system-involvement, we identify and describe six different pathways into couchsurfing. These pathways extended from the beginning to the end of their child safety involvement, and demonstrate how fear of reprisal for reporting, fear of out-of-home-care, and lack of transition planning pushed-or-pulled young people into couchsurfing. These findings indicate the link between couchsurfing and child safety involvement began very early in the investigative process, suggesting multidisciplinary service teams that include housing support should be involved in initial contact. We also echo the recommendations of other researchers to prioritise Housing First programming and risk assessment for evaluating young people’s living spaces.

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Section: Child Safety and Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways Into Couchsurfing From Child Safety Involvement

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Vichta-Ohlsen²

2023

IJOH

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“…Studies surveying homeless populations reveal that women and children experiencing homelessness are 80% more likely to have prior experiences of domestic violence compared to those without experiences of violence (Aratani, 2009;Ervin et al, 2022). For young people, history of mental or behavioural health challenges, school or academic issues, traumatic experiences, and nonheterosexual sexual orientation intensify risk for homelessness (Grattan et al, 2022). Structural racism also plays a major role in the mentioned intersections, with African American and Indigenous peoples experiencing homelessness at higher rates than White people (Jones, 2016).…”

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Addressing health disparities of individuals experiencing homelessness in the U.S. with community institutional partnerships: An integrative review

Lee

Jagasia

Wilson

2023

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aims: To examine existing community-institutional partnerships providing health care services to people experiencing homelessness by addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) at multiple socioecological levels. Design: Integrative review. Data Sources: PubMed (Public/Publisher MEDLINE), CINAHL (The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature database), and EMBASE (Excerpta Medica database) were searched to identify articles on health care services, partnerships, and transitional housing.

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“…Approximately 50% of mental health challenges develop before the age of 14 years (Kessler et al, 2007 ). Childhood mental health challenges are associated with poor health, educational and social outcomes in adulthood including mood, anxiety and externalising disorders (Mulraney et al, 2021 ); lower educational attainment and earnings (Copeland et al, 2021 ); homelessness (Grattan et al, 2022 ); substance use disorders; smoking; and imprisonment for violent crimes (Kellam et al, 2011 ). There is a need to target evidence-based prevention programs to children and young adolescents to prevent the onset of these challenges and minimise its associated risks (Arango et al, 2018 ).…”

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Strategies for Enhancing the Implementation of Universal Mental Health Prevention Programs in Schools: A Systematic Review

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A number of school-based mental health prevention programs have been found to be effective in research trials, but little is known about how to support implementation in real-life settings. To address this translational problem, this systematic review aims to identify effective strategies for enhancing the implementation of mental health prevention programs for children in schools. Four electronic databases were searched for empirical, peer-reviewed articles in English from January 2000 to October 2021 reporting the effects of implementation strategies for school-based universal mental health programs. Twenty-one articles were included in the narrative synthesis and assessed for quality using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Twenty-two strategies were found to be effective at improving program fidelity or adoption. The strategies with the strongest positive evidence base were those that involved monitoring and provision of feedback, engaging principals as program leaders, improving teachers’ buy-in and organising school personnel implementation meetings. We recommend school-based practitioners trial strategies with positive findings from this review as part of their continuous quality improvement. This review highlights the pressing need for large-scale, randomised controlled trials to develop and trial more robust strategies to enhance adoption, as the five implementation studies found to measure adoption used qualitative methods limited by small samples sizes and case study designs.

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Risk and Resilience Factors for Youth Homelessness in Western Countries: A Systematic Review

Cited by 20 publications

References 35 publications

Pathways Into Couchsurfing From Child Safety Involvement

Pathways Into Couchsurfing From Child Safety Involvement

Addressing health disparities of individuals experiencing homelessness in the U.S. with community institutional partnerships: An integrative review

Strategies for Enhancing the Implementation of Universal Mental Health Prevention Programs in Schools: A Systematic Review

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