 “I just needed someone to believe in me.” A qualitative analysis of youths’ experiencing homelessness perspectives of a housing first interventionBrittany Brakenhoff, Jared Martin, Natasha Slesnick, Eugene Holowacz, Tansel Yilmazer, Laura Chavez and Kelly Kelleher Children and Youth Services Review, 2022, vol. 143, issue C Abstract: Housing first interventions are commonly considered best practice when addressing homelessness among adults. However, to date to there is limited research exploring housing first interventions with youth experiencing homelessness. Homeless youth are a distinctly different population than homeless adults, thus housing first interventions will need to consider the unique needs of homeless youth. To better understand how homeless youth may respond to a housing first intervention, the current study utilized qualitative interviews with 17 youth who had recently participated in a 6-month housing first intervention. Overall, youth reported generally positive experiences and believed the intervention had led to improvements in their lives. Similar to research with homeless adults, it appears that by being provided housing youth were able to move out of survival mode, which led to their feelings of self-improvement. Keywords: Housing first; Homeless youth; Qualitative interviews (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:143:y:2022:i:c:s0190740922002912 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106655 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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