Canada Is Failing Homeless Youth, Report Says

Professor at York University says that Canada loses homeless youth and needs to make major changes to make young people safe to transition to adulthood.

In his report "The Advent of Age" Stephen Gottz points out that the current attitude toward homeless youths, including evacuation centers and dropout centers, has little effect on reducing homelessness.

According to reports, young people account for about 20% of emergency evacuation centers in this country, and there is little evidence that homeless or young people remaining on the street have decreased in the past 10 to 15 years.

StatsCan reports that the number of people living in evacuation centers under the age of 15 has increased from 1,830 in 2006 to 2,145 in 2011.

Although emergency response is very important, Mr. Gottz believes that the current practice is that young people have been in evacuation centers for years and are preventing them from becoming self-sufficient adults.

"Imagine that Kelowna and Slaybreak are moments (evacuation of forest fires), living in hockey and motels for the past few years, it seems to be shocking and ridiculous.This is a perfect companion for our emergency response Failure - really, we really disappointed these people. "

Mr. Gates wants to incorporate emergency response into a broader strategy to deal with youth homelessness

He hoped that the strategy would include "temporary short-term stay" in evacuation centers to identify "nursing care systems" and daily plans to help them achieve their goals is.

The report praised the "remarriage plan of the family" in Australia, which is aimed at raising the level of participation of high-risk young people to "education at home, work, education, community" And reports are written.

Result is? According to the report, young people and their families have achieved positive results in terms of a stable living environment, conflict management and school attitude.

Finally, Mr. Gates wants to see "from how to manage problems to how to end young people's homelessness."

An adolescent homeless is a young man who has become homeless, homeless, or homeless for some reason. This includes many homeless young people (up to 80%) who are not living on the street, are hiding in homelessness. Age is from 12 to 29 years old. However, in most cases, young people are defined as 16 to 24 years old. They do not live with their families and are not under the care of their child protection agencies. They are often defined as living in homeless cycles, which may mean temporarily being protected or living in a crowded or dangerous environment.

I do not know how many people are homeless in the US and Canada, but thousands of homeless people know every night, even in cold or cold weather. Youth seek refuge, safety, food and work. Estimated time point in January 2016 by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that 170,820 young people under the age of 24 were homeless on a monthly evening. 2 In Canada, at least 35,000 people are homeless every night, of which 20% are young. 3 These figures represent a night without a house. Returnee - All barely accommodations, sofa net surfing, countless hidden young people are not taken into account

In October 2016, the homeless Observatory in Canada collaborated with A Home Home Canada and launched the "Homeless: Youth Homeless Survey of the Youth". In this survey, 1,103 homeless young people were investigated from 47 communities in 10 provinces and territories. For details, please refer to Schwan et al. (2017) As an example of a document useful for identifying appropriate risk assessment tools, the Ontario State Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center provides online catalogs of measures relating to mental health and program evaluations for children and adolescents doing. For more information, please visit the following website. http://www.excellenceforchildandyouth.ca/resource-hub/measures- database