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Title

Responding to youth homelessness: the economic costs and benefits of school based early intervention

Author(s)

Pinkney, Sarah;  Ewing, Scott

Abstract

The recent emergence of an early intervention perspective has focused on young people at the earliest stages of homelessness in an attempt to short circuit the slide to chronic homelessness. This book looks at the potential cost implications of this new policy direction including estimating the lifetime cost to the community of supporting youth who become permanently homeless and its effects upon the nation's economic prosperity. The authors' main finding is that school- based early intervention is a supportable, cost- beneficial policy. Topics covered include student needs, pastoral care, unemployment, educational attainment, health problems, substance abuse, and crime and the criminal justice system.

Publication type

Book

Publication year

1997

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Cost effectiveness;  Cost estimates;  Disadvantaged youth;  Early intervention;  Homeless students;  Homelessness;  Housing;  Program costs;  Students;  Youth employment;  Youth housing;  Youth opportunities

Publisher

Centre for Youth Affairs Research and Development, RMIT

ISBN

0864446632

Peer reviewed