Housing & Homelessness 

Homelessness Among Young People in Australia: Early Intervention and Prevention 

1996 

This study provides further support for the findings of previous studies regarding the factors which lead to homelessness among young people.

Homelessness most clearly arises from a lack of access to affordable safe accommodation. This said, the experiences of young people where early home leaving occurs are typified either by a long-term process where the young person feels a lack of emotional support, often associated with abuse, domestic violence, negative school experience, rejection accompanying repartnering of a parent, or as a result of one or more specific events which involve grief or loss, or a combination of any or all of the above.


A report to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme, by Phil Crane, Jillian Brannock, Linda Ray, Jenny Campbell, Georgia Smeal and Bill Atweh with the special assistance of Megan Williams and Shane Warren Nikki McLarty, Cherie Sloan, Mark Hoyle, Jenny Clough and Samorn Sanixay.

This report is the property of the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme.

Table of Contents

  • Executive summary
  • Chapter 1 : Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Homelessness and early home leaving: Prevention and early intervention
  • Chapter 3: How the research was conducted
  • Chapter 4: Description and review of policies and programs
  • Chapter 5: Perspectives of young people
  • Chapter 6: Perspectives of parents
  • Chapter 7: Perspectives of service providers: National survey
  • Chapter 8: Case studies of services
  • Chapter 9: Implications for best practice and policymaking
  • References
  • Appendices

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