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Introduction
Introduction
Welcome to the second lesson in our study of human wellbeing.
In this lesson we will learn about the different causes and impacts of youth homelessness.
Watch the video for an introduction to this lesson.
Activity 1 - Types and causes
Activity 1 - Types and causes
There are many causes that result in youth homelessness. There are also a number of short-term and long-term impacts on both individuals and society.
Task
Task
Access and read the following resources and websites concerning youth homelessness:
Complete the following questions:
Identify and explain 3 interesting ideas you read about.
Identify and explain 1 area you would like to learn more about.
Identify the four main causes of youth homelessness in Australia.
Construct a pie chart or other visual representation of the types of youth homelessness.
Image by Giustiliano Calgaro from Pixabay CC0 Public Domain
Activity 2 - Responses to homelessness
Activity 2 - Responses to homelessness
Task
Task
Use your understanding of the causes and types of youth homelessness to complete the following:
identify actions that could be taken to either prevent youth homelessness or reduce the impact of youth homelessness
record this information in a table.
Activity 3 - Australia's response
Activity 3 - Australia's response
In this lesson you have gained a lot of information about the causes, impacts and responses to youth homelessness.
Task
Task
Download the worksheet.
Assess the effectiveness of Australia’s current response to youth homelessness against the criteria in the worksheet. You must provide an explanation for your response using evidence.
CC0 Public Domain
CC0 Public Domain
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25) states:
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Select the icon to open Australia's response to youth homelessness in Google docs. Then select 'Use Template' to create a copy for yourself.
Select the icon to open Australia's response to youth homelessness worksheet (docx 11KB). It will automatically download to your computer.
Handing in your work
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any hand written work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.
Student reflection
Student reflection
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