Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives
Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2012
- Category
- Social Work, Social Policy, Children's Studies
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774823302
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $90.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774823319
- Publish Date
- Jan 2013
- List Price
- $32.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774823326
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
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.