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Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives

Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization

by (author) Karen R. Foster & Dale C. Spencer

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2012
Category
Social Work, Social Policy, Children's Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774823302
    Publish Date
    Aug 2012
    List Price
    $90.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774823319
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774823326
    Publish Date
    Aug 2012
    List Price
    $32.95

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Poverty and unemployment are on the rise among Canadian youth. Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives looks at the issue from the perspective of those most affected, revealing the difficulties young people encounter with the “support system.” In-depth interviews with forty-five young people in Ottawa reveal that solutions do exist, predicated on recognition that the problem lies not with incorrigible youth, but with a social-aid structure that imposes barriers to success. Intervention is necessary, argue the authors, but not so much in the lives of young people as in the faulty structures that incorrectly presume how they interpret risk, poverty, and their own potential.

About the authors

Karen Foster is Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University.

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