The role of services that street youth access voluntarily in inadvertently reproducing, contributing to, and/or perpetuating oppression /

• Main Author: Romilly, Charis
• Other Authors: Wright, Robin (advisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 2001
• Subjects: Street youth > Services for > British Columbia > Vancouver.; Social work with youth > British Columbia > Vancouver; Youth workers > British Columbia > Vancouver.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29556

Street youth can be viewed as an oppressed population based on the fact that most street youth experience one, if not all of the five faces of oppression. Using an anti-oppressive framework, this thesis examines whether the oppression of street youth is ever inadvertently contributed to, reproduced, or perpetuated by services that youth access voluntarily. In addition, this research also explores what possible reasons or conditions might be promoting or perpetuating the oppression of street youth through helping agencies or by helping professionals. Lastly, youth were asked what anti-oppressive practices they could identify in current services, as well as how they would begin to define anti-oppressive practice with street youth. This exploratory research used an anti-oppressive research design and a focus group methodology with a grassroots street youth run advocacy group in Vancouver.