The deployment of discretionary power in the prevention and enactment of structural violence against young people experiencing homelessness

Keeping young researchers out of harm’s way: conducting youth participatory action research with young people experiencing homelessness

“…The young researchers were hired and paid as staff of the community-based YEH-serving social service agency; trained in research methods, ethics, and interviewing; supervised as they conducted data collection in the field; and then trained and guided through the data analysis process for the study. More details on the wider project and findings that have emerged from this study can be found at Ratliff et al ( 32 ) and Tan et al ( 33 ). The findings reported here focus on the process of conducting a YPAR study with a vulnerable population of youth researchers and present data obtained from the youth researchers themselves, not the YEH research subjects they interviewed in the main study, along with other data from study team members related to the experiences and decision-making in implementing the larger study with a team of youth researchers.…”

Analyzing U.S. tweets for stigma against people experiencing homelessness.

“…Less challenging to envision, but fraught with different obstacles, is addressing stigma in the formal spaces where it can be “managed.” These spaces include physical institutions such as schools, parks, healthcare settings, or with the police. Recent research has documented how stigma from staff in such spaces causes negative effects on the wellbeing of youth and adults experiencing homelessness (Crawley et al, 2013; Della-Piana et al, 2020; Ratliff et al, 2019). These experiences suggest, at the very least, the need to require both guidance and training of staff regarding how to positively interact with PEH without further stigmatizing them.…”