Kathleen Acevedo
EDFD 445
02/08/2024
Professor Burkholder
Resources
Book:
Brandon Andrew Robinson, “Coming out to the streets : LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness”, 2020
This book is about the LGBTQ community and their experiences, especially with homelessness. I do not have the e-book. But, I did read the description and am going to place a hold for the book because it seems like an essential book to get great information from. I can add information from this book to my lesson relating to the LGBTQ community and what they went through coming out to their parents. As well as the exact causes that led them to homelessness.
Video:
DeVaughn Barden, YO-TV, Educational Video Center. “Losing Ground: The New Face of Homelessness”, 2007
https://video-alexanderstreet-com.ezproxy.montclair.edu/watch/losing-ground-the-new-face-of-homelessness
This video highlights true experiences about young people that are facing homelessness themselves. The people in this video are showing the audience their real stories and the different lives they all had before which had led them to being homeless and looking for helpful resources in the U.S. As you get deeper into the video they describe and show how it is to be homeless describing everything as if you were hearing the story being told in front of you. I picked this video because I wanted to show a small part of it in my lesson. Quotes from articles and journals aren't the same as visually watching something and connecting with it in some way, while grasping a very good understanding of it. Which is what I want my classroom to feel. I truly feel like adding a part of this video to my lesson will grasp my class's attention and help them engage in the lesson in a different way.
Elizabeth A. Schoenfeld; Kate Bennett; Katy Manganella and Gage Kemp. “More than just a seat at the table: the power of youth voice in ending youth homelessness in the United States”, 2019
This article discussed the process of attempting to end youth homelessness in the United States. It discussed a clear overview of the development and contributions of youth homelessness, showing that the youth are empowered to make decisions about issues impacting their lives. Including their programmatic recommendations and advocacy work as well as key recommendations for communities looking to hold youth voice at the system level. There are also organizations and communities that integrate youth voice reporting with greater clarity of purpose, as well as developing programs that are better aligned with youth needs.
Database:
Era Banner. “360°kids cooks up employment opportunities in culinary program for young people at new Newmarket Youth Hub: Non-profit agency committed to preventing and ending youth homelessness”, 11 Dec. 2023
https://www.proquest.com/central/docview/2900728461/217595E680144137PQ/6?accountid=12536&sourcetype=Newspapers
This newspaper really piqued my interest because of its very fascinating title. This newspaper was about a non-profit agency committed to prevent and end youth homelessness by providing a range of programs and services that address root causes, break down barriers, and create opportunities for them. In the course they learn about employment skills such as resume writing, interviewing skills and conflict resolution and culinary abilities. Which is something they haven’t had the chance to learn due to their situation. Overall, you can sense that this was a very incredible experience for them due to some of the comments they left and everything they gained after this program. Which was leaving with certificates for their accomplishments, more knowledge, and self-improvement. This would be an amazing factual piece of information to add to my lesson because the students will be able to see that there are amazing organizations out there ready to lend a helping hand to young homeless people and that do more than just providing shelter and food. But, instead worrying about their mental health and attempting to spike at a different area of their brain with knowledge they can take with them for the future. As they are young people overall.
Book:
Jamie Rife Donald W. Burnes, “ Journeys out of homelessness”, 15 Oct. 2019. Pg 1-18
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/montclair/reader.action?docID=619148
This book talks about others journeys and the process of what they went through when they were homeless. When using this resource I would like to focus on the start of the book. Which would be chapter 1 pages 1-18. In the first chapter they introduce homelessness, what it is, the extent of homelessness, the personal causes of it, and people’s public opinion. Which I truly feel will be very beneficial information to add to the start of my lesson so that my class has a clear knowledge of what youth homelessness really is.
Database:
Article in a Website:
Timothy Scalona. “I was a homeless high school student. America’s laws don’t do enough to help kids like me.”, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/07/i-was-homeless-high-school-student-americas-laws-dont-do-enough-help-kids-like-me/
This was my favorite journalism article thus far. It really tells us this young girl's story, her struggles and what she went through after the pandemic as well as the cause it had on her. It made me see a different point of view, especially this being a person that is around the same age as me, and the same age that some of the students in the classroom I will be teaching my lesson to will be. In this journal she discusses the advantages you get when being homeless as well as all the disadvantages you face. She mentions how the government helps her and her siblings with small necessities such as transportation. But, then proceeds to tell us that not every person in need receives the same amount of help from the government…
Valerie Polakow and Syprose Owiti. “ Child Poverty, Rightss, and well-being”, 21 July, 2021
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199791231/obo-9780199791231-0134.xml?rskey=O2tIjw&result=10&q=Youth+homelessness#firstMatch
This resource is an introduction to youth homelessness which describes the real-life struggles young people go through mentally and physically when they are homeless. It simply highlights how being homeless as a child is a global crisis and that you are at such a disadvantage because you lack many basic necessities you need to grow. It makes you question what it means to be fully human due to the fact that being homeless as a younger person makes you lack basic human rights as well.