Linking the roads : working with youth who experience homelessness and sexual violence
Linking the roads : working with youth who experience homelessness and sexual violence
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
- National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 2014
- electronic document (19 pages); PDF file: 20.97 MB; TXT file available
This guide focuses on adapting advocacy skills to help young people who experience homelessness and sexual violence build resiliency and lessen their traumas. It has three aims: (a) to provide an overview for the intersections between identity, trauma experiences, and resiliency among youth who are homeless; (b) to highlight core skills and techniques for advocates; and (c) to discuss how to tailor these skills in order to improve services for youth who identify as LGBTQ.
Also available is an infographic, Homeless Youth & Sexual Violence, which illustrates statistics that show the link between youth homelessness and sexual violence. (from the website).
LGBTQIA+
RURAL AREAS
RURAL YOUTH
YOUNG PEOPLE
FAMILY VIOLENCE
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
HOMELESSNESS
UNITED STATES
This guide focuses on adapting advocacy skills to help young people who experience homelessness and sexual violence build resiliency and lessen their traumas. It has three aims: (a) to provide an overview for the intersections between identity, trauma experiences, and resiliency among youth who are homeless; (b) to highlight core skills and techniques for advocates; and (c) to discuss how to tailor these skills in order to improve services for youth who identify as LGBTQ.
Also available is an infographic, Homeless Youth & Sexual Violence, which illustrates statistics that show the link between youth homelessness and sexual violence. (from the website).
LGBTQIA+
RURAL AREAS
RURAL YOUTH
YOUNG PEOPLE
FAMILY VIOLENCE
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
HOMELESSNESS
UNITED STATES