Multiple disruptions: circumstances and experiences of young people living with homelessness and unemployment
Grace, Marty, Batterham, Deb and Cornell, Chelsea (2008) Multiple disruptions: circumstances and experiences of young people living with homelessness and unemployment. Just Policy : a Journal of Australian Social Policy (48). pp. 23-41. ISSN 1323-2266
Abstract
This article is about young people who have experienced both homelessness and unemployment, with their interacting impacts. While ‘young people’ is usually understood to include those beyond childhood and up to 25 years of age, the homelessness services that initiated YP4 decided that the project should focus on people in the first one-third of their expected working lives. Thus the eligible age group for YP4 was 18−35 years. In practice, 75 per cent of participants were aged 25 years and under. This paper presents a more detailed descriptive profile than has previously been published regarding the circumstances of young people living with homelessness and unemployment. This profile confirms and adds quantification to previously published material on the complex disadvantages experienced by these young people. Our findings are indicative of the circumstances of the broader population of young Australians in these circumstances.
Item type | Article |
URI | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/1859 |
Subjects | Historical > RFCD Classification > 360000 Policy and Political Science Historical > RFCD Classification > 370000 Studies in Human Society Historical > FOR Classification > 1607 Social Work Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Social Sciences and Psychology |
Keywords | homeless young people, unemployed young people, Australia |
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