ArticleEvaluation and program planning2014
Social networks as the context for understanding employment services utilization among homeless youth.
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- Keeping young researchers out of harm's way: conducting youth participatory action research with young people experiencing homelessness.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Enhancing Education and Career Pathways Through Peer and Near-Peer Social Capital.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Rasch model of the bridging social capital questionnaire.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Motivational network intervention to reduce substance use and increase supportive connections among formerly homeless emerging adults transitioning to housing: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2021Article
- p-adic numbers encode complex networks.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Employment and Other Income Sources Among Homeless Youth.The journal of primary prevention · 2018Article
- Employment Outcomes From a Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Employment Interventions With Homeless Youth.Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research · 2018Article
- Socioeconomic factors associated with cessation of injection drug use among street-involved youth.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2017Article
- The development of a bridging social capital questionnaire for use in population health research.SSM - population health · 2016Article
- Facilitators and Barriers of Drop-In Center Use Among Homeless Youth.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2016Review
- Social Networking Technology Use and Engagement in HIV-Related Risk and Protective Behaviors Among Homeless Youth.Journal of health communication · 2016Article
- High prevalence of risky income generation among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting.The International journal on drug policy · 2016Article
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Little is known about the factors associated with use of employment services among homeless youth. Social network characteristics have been known to be influential in motivating people's decision to seek services. Traditional theoretical frameworks applied to studies of service use emphasize individual factors over social contexts and interactions. Using key social network, social capital, and social influence theories, this paper developed an integrated theoretical framework that capture the social network processes that act as barriers or facilitators of use of employment services by homeless youth, and understand empirically, the salience of each of these constructs in influencing the use of employment services among homeless youth. We used the "Event based-approach" strategy to recruit a sample of 136 homeless youth at one drop-in agency serving homeless youth in Los Angeles, California in 2008. The participants were queried regarding their individual and network characteristics. Data were entered into NetDraw 2.090 and the spring embedder routine was used to generate the network visualizations. Logistic regression was used to assess the influence of the network characteristics on use of employment services. The study findings suggest that social capital is more significant in understanding why homeless youth use employment services, relative to network structure and network influence. In particular, bonding and bridging social capital were found to have differential effects on use of employment services among this population. The results from this study provide specific directions for interventions aimed to increase use of employment services among homeless youth.
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