Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Homelessness, poverty, and unemployment: An overview and conceptual model
(Sanna J. Thompson)
Chapter 2. Applying Social Capital Theory to interventions with homeless youth
(Tiffany Ryan)
Chapter 3. Homeless young adults and employment: Issues and intervention.
(Kristin Ferguson and Sanna J. Thompson)
Chapter 4. Perspectives on housing among homeless youth
(Tiffany Ryan, Patrick Lamb, Sanna J. Thompson and Melissa McChesney)
Chapter 5. Safety and survival skills of homeless, street-involved adults
(Angie Lippman, Amanda Barczyk and Sanna J. Thompson)
Chapter 6. Evidence-based school interventions to prevent homelessness among youth: Pathways to employment and policy reform
(Katherine Montgomery, Tiffany Ryan and Sanna J. Thompson)
Chapter 7. Speaking up and Speaking out: Youth perspectives on homelessness and the transition to Adulthood
(Christine Gendron, Rebecca Gomez and Sanna J. Thompson)
Chapter 8. Risk factors for sexually transmitted infections and human immunodeficiency in homeless persons with developmental disabilities
(Larry G. Morton, II and David E. Pollio)
Chapter 9. Homelessness, poverty, and unemployment: The Ghanaian case
(Franklin Obeng-Odoom)
Chapter 10. Homelessness as a consequence of natural disasters:
The case of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
(Jaime Santos-Reyes)
Chapter 11. Employers’ hiring and dismissing of older workers
(Chau-kiu Cheung and Raymond Man-hung Ngan)
Index
