Understanding Why Young People Engage and Disengage in Services

As part of Chapin Hall’s Voices of Youth Count study, researchers explored the attitudes that 215 young people held toward engaging in formal and informal homelessness services. Through a series of vignettes, a recent article in Cityscape describes how young people’s identity, experiences, and desire to act on their own behalf are related to patterns of support-seeking. The study emphasizes that all young people are capable of different levels of engagement depending on the circumstances, and that providers should consider it a fluid, multidimensional concept.

Read the article here: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol20num3/ch2.pdf