News tagged with family homelessness

Family largely ignored in Canada's response to youth homelessness

The role of family in ending youth homelessness is largely ignored in Canada, according to a report released today by York University, though there is evidence that family reconnection works in Australia and the United Kingdom ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Most runaway teens return home with help of family ties, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Runaways who maintain contact with pro-social peers and have parental support, especially from their mothers, tend to return home.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds significant number of kids experience family homelessness

A new multisite study by UCLA and RAND Corp. researchers and colleagues has found that 7 percent of fifth-graders and their families have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives and that the occurrence is even ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0