Street Culture Paper

Being homeless presents many challenges for youth that they normally live day to day, unable to develop plans for forming a productive life structure. Since many homeless youth don’t have money so they start begging or selling drugs or start prostituting to earn money to cover their basic needs. The basic problem of homelessness is the human need for personal shelter,

The book “With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets” written by Marni Finkelstein refers to the homeless youth. This book describes the lifestyle of the teenagers with no home and explains with detail about what consist in their everyday lives in the streets of New York City. The purpose of this book is to explain to people who these kids are and to see life in their point of view. It explains the difference between street kids and the kids that live on the street. We need to understand that the kids that live on the streets have their own culture and their own way of surviving. Learning their point of view would be a great eye opening experience for everyone and to also understand their struggle. This book explains a study that was done to 50 street kids and life on the streets.

Homelessness is a major problem in the United States. An incredibly vulnerable group is the homeless youth due to their young age and lack of education. According to Edidin, Ganim, Hunter, & Karnik (2012) on any particular night in the United States there are ~2 million homeless youth living on the streets, in shelters, or in other temporary accommodation. Youth become homeless for multiple reasons whether it be because they have aged out of foster care, ran from home, were kicked out of their home, or because they have become homeless along with their family members. Within the umbrella categorization of homeless youth there are high at risk subgroups, common misconceptions, and a serious concern of lack of support and medical services.

Today in Canada, a rise in youth homelessness is being observed across the country. Despite common assumptions, the issue of street youth is not isolated to Toronto or Montreal, but has become pervasive across the country. Although accurate statistics are impossible to come by, the disturbing reality is that both urban centers and rural communities nationwide, are struggling to provide their youth with adequate, affordable housing. Issues surrounding the supply and affordability of housing, combined with personal circumstances characterized by instability, are distancing youth’s access to housing. These causes and their overall consequences, must be faced before lasting solutions can be shaped by society. Housing Canada’s street youth will

In an effort to end homelessness in Washington, DC, low barrier shelters, such as the Harriet Tubman Woman’s Shelter were implemented. Located in the center of DC General Campus in Southeast, DC, the Harriet Tubman Woman’s shelter, “is a 100 bed low-barrier emergency shelter for women over the age of 18 who are in urgent need of housing, food or case management” (Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Washington, Inc., 2010). A low-barrier shelter is “usually primarily short-term shelter for individuals. Low-barrier shelter is designed to keep people safe, is often open only 12 hours a day, and is often in a congregate setting. This type of program is provided, on a first come, first served basis, to any adult presenting as homeless. It is sometimes also referred to as emergency shelter” (Interagency Council on Homelessness District of Columbia, 2010, p.4) For all shelters in the Washington, DC area the women are to be out of the shelter from the time of 7am until the doors open again at 7pm. For those women who are not a part of the work program or have nothing to do during the day, the women have a chance to participate in the day program located in the shelter.

In youth homelessness these children, adolescents and even young adults are being exposed to many dangerous drugs, alcohol, and people.

The ethnography With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets by Marni Finkelstein, describes the life of street youth in New York City. The ethnography attempts to debunk myths that prior studies have formed of these street youths. The author, Marni Finkelstein is an Anthropologist renowned for her work on urban populations at risk. She graduated from the New School of Social Research in New York City with her PhD in Anthropology. Finkelstein has also conducted studies on substance abuse, sexual assaults and drug use of youths in New York City. Finkelstein achieves her goals, by using a scientific approach when observing the street youths. A few methods she utilizes are similar to that have been previous used but

Youth homelessness can be define as young individuals, ranging from age 12 to around 25, who are without any support from their families, and are either living on the streets or at a shelter. There are often “referred to as “unaccompanied” youth.” (National Coalition for Homelessness (NCH), 2007). Unaccompanied youths can be categorized as runaway-homeless youths, throwaways, and independent youths. Runaway- homeless youths are youths that leave home without any parental permission. Youths that leave their homes because parents encourage them to leave are categorize as throwaways. The final classified as independent youths who leave home because of family conflicts or other issues. (Aratani, 2009).

In this paper, I plan to first describe the “Code of the Street” which is a term coined and a book written by Elijah Anderson. I would also summarize and describe two journal articles that test Anderson’s idea of the “Code of the Street” for a more definite explanation. I will tell how the two articles that I have chosen relates to some of the concepts that Anderson talked about in the book. I will then define general strain theory and social learning or differential association theory. Lastly, I will explain how general strain theory and social learning theory or differential association theory explain some of the behaviors that were seen by the individuals in the book published by Anderson. I will point out some of the individual’s behavior and demonstrate whether it may lead to crime or whether the behavior was learned in any way.

While other shelters might screen out the intoxicated, the active drug users, the ex-offenders, or those with

Beacon Hill is a programed aimed to aid homeless youth find permanent housing. This program evaluation plan is intended to analyze the effectiveness of the program with the youth populations. It is also a trial run for the program to make sure that is suitable to meet the goals and objectives once it is officially implemented. It is meant to identify any weakness and fix them before the program starts. Through the use of various evaluation techniques, which include individual interviews with participants as well as surveys/questionnaires, program evaluators will be able to acknowledge the usefulness of the program and verify that it will meet the needs of the homeless youth population.

Two of the most noticeable things about a person are the way the person acts and whom the person associates with. If someone is seen committing an illegal act that person will be labeled as deviant and possibly as someone who is part of a gang. That might be a correct assumption, but is also likely to be the wrong assumption. The person might be part of a subculture where the norm consists of committing some types of illegal acts. The hip-hop subculture, for example, is a subculture where the members are known to commit acts of deviance together.

According to my last service learning experience at ROOTS in 2014, the clients in the shelter were mostly young male adults. The homeless people’s age range in the ROOTS are young, which is mentioned as ROOTS instruction with age 18 to 25. The ethnicity in ROOTS are wide too, which includes whites, black, Latinos, and very little of Asian. In the shelter, some of the people were unemployment and some of the people has a job. Some people in the shelter exchange their life event with each other and some people were quiet and seeking for peace. Since the client’s information is private as the law stated for every shelter. I did not have the way to check on the health status on each client. However, based on my observation on their appearance in the past, people were healthy in ROOTS and very few of physical disability people that I have seen in ROOTS. Also, clients in the shelter mostly looked nice and friendly to chat and play. The most common risk behavior may be that some of the people may use some words of sexism to the female volunteers. However, those clients in the shelter did not like to talk and would like to avoid any type of communication. Therefore, the physical violent situation did not occurred according to my past experience. The clients in the shelter can all speak English, even though several of them may not take English as their primary language. Overall, these clients all have their different stories

Homelessness Youth Services in Barwon Youth Southwest Region – specifically the Youth Entry Point workers and management, who are primarily involved in undertaking specialist assessments to gain a greater understanding of the young person’s current housing situation, who explore barriers such as Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD), Mental Health or Family Violence concerns etc.

Shooting street photography is something that many photographers aspire to but few every do. Too often photographers fear actually shooting on the street. They feel that street is a skill with too many demands. Or, they feel that other people will judge them too harshly. The great thing is that none of these things are true. With a few tricks of the trade nearly anyone can be on their way to creating world class street snaps.