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Question: What do you think is the biggest personal challenge for professionals that work with homeless youth?
Discussion
Isn’t it something that Martin (2014) really drives home the fact that most homeless teens chose to be homeless. This really informs us of just how bad what they were running from was!
Every time I am invited to speak about “troubled youth” & I cover this topic I do my best to convey that this isn’t just a rash decision. A teenager just doesn’t wake up on some random Thursday morning & decide to run away that day. It is a process and the issues/problems have likely been going on for a while.
I live & work in what is commonly regarded to be the most affluent County in the Country. We have the same runaway/homeless issues that exist anywhere else. So that goes to show this is an equal opportunity problem. I have worked with homeless youth from literally destitute families & youth whose parents are millionaires. Orange County, CA is geographically, not a very large County & yet there are 3 youth runaway shelters here! Despite that, I have often found it strange that there are more shelters for dogs & animals than humans in Southern California. I am certainly not anti-animal, but that stat really questions our priorities.
Reference
Fitzgerald MD. (1995). Homeless youths and the child welfare system: implications for policy and service. Child Welfare, 74(3), 717–730. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford….
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