Naomi Nichols

Youth Work

An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining institutional ethnography and community-based research, Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them. Drawing from more than a year of on-site research at an Ontario youth emergency shelter, Naomi Nichols exposes the complicated institutional practices that govern both the lives of young people living in shelters and the workers who try to help them. A troubling account of how a managerial focus on principles like "accountability" and "risk management" has failed to successfully coordinate and deliver services to vulnerable members of society, Youth Work shows how competitive funding processes, institutional mandates, and inter-organizational conflicts complicate the lives of the young people that they are supposed to help. Nichols’s book is essential reading for those involved in education, social services, mental health, and the justice system, as well as anyone with an interest in social justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647435
• ISBN-10: 1442647434
• Artikelnr.: 41029513

Autorenporträt

Naomi Nichols is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Nichols’ primary research focus is youth equity. She has published extensively on structural and policy drivers of inequality, poverty, and homelessness. Her secondary research focus is on processes of mobilizing diverse forms of knowledge to influence equitable social and policy change. Her central objective is to generate and mobilize an evidence base, which will drive processes of practice, policy and institutional change

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Research: Community-Based Institutional Ethnography
2. Getting Welfare
3. “Signing Out” of Care
4. Youth “At Risk”
5. The Institutional Coordination of Youth Work
6. Walking the Line: Research and Development Work with SYS
Conclusion
References
Index