Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women
written by Vanessa Oliver, fl. 2008 (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2013, originally published 2013), 296 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women’s access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes. In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by foregrounding the narratives of the women themselves, Oliver empowers a sub-section of the population that traditionally has not had a voice in determining policies that shape their realities. Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.
- Field of Interest
- Social Work
- Author
- Vanessa Oliver, fl. 2008
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2013 University of Toronto Press
- Content Type
- Book
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 2013
- Page Count
- 296
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Place Published / Released
- Toronto, ON
- Subject
- Social Work, Social Sciences, Psychology & Counseling, Health Care, Poverty, Women, Health, Homelessness, Macro
