Exam 13: Street-Involved Youth in Canada

Despite their challenging circumstances, street-involved youth take advantage of available services in all circumstances.

Services for street-involved youth and youth homelessness in Canada are focusing on ________.

Understanding the experience of street-involved youth is important because ________.

A recent study of homeless Toronto squeegee kids suggests that many are able to make an adequate wage from cleaning car windshields.

It has been argued that "once youth make the transition from home to the street, they enter a new world with its own culture, norms, and rules." Discuss this point drawing on relevant information provided in the chapter.

What are the questions raised by the range of estimates of street-involved youth in Canada and the United States?

Pregnancy is common among street-involved youth.

How many street-involved youth participate in survival or obligatory sex? What are some of the reasons they participate?

In 2006, the Enhanced Surveillance of Canadian Street Youth (E-SYS) project reported that between ________ per cent of street-involved youth left home because of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/emotional abuse.

For many youth, the initial experience of the street is characterized by ________.

What do studies indicate about rates of maltreatment among youth who later turned to the streets?

Describe the ecological approach to understanding the runaway and homeless youth phenomena based on Bronfenbrenner's theory.

Which of the following is common among street-involved youth?

Research has found that the average number of times street-involved youth have sexual intercourse each week ranges from two to three times for casual sex, up to ________ times for paying sex.

What are the issues involved in using data on the number of youth who use shelters to base predictions of the uncounted street-involved population?

In recent years, ________ have played an increasing role in understanding street-involved youth.

Studies advocate a ________ model that allows youth to play a significant role in developing and evaluating programs and in which the agencies continue to be flexible in adapting to the changing needs of street-involved youth.

The Safe Streets Act enacted in Ontario in 2000 regulated the practice of squeegee cleaning so that street-involved youth could earn a legal income.

"Children in the care of child welfare" is a general phrase used to refer to children and youth in ________.

Cross-sectional data on youth using shelters and other service agencies captures the fluidity and diversity of the street-involved youth population.