³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ News - Youth homelessness /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Youth%20homelessness/rss en Strong Link Between Child Welfare and Youth Homelessness in Canada /channels/channels/news/strong-link-between-child-welfare-and-youth-homelessness-canada-269316 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A new <a href="http://homelesshub.ca/childwelfare">report</a> shows that almost sixty percent (57.8%) of homeless youth in Canada report involvement with the child welfare system at some point in their lives. In comparison, among the general population in Canada, roughly 0.3% of youth have child welfare involvement. This suggests that youth experiencing homelessness are 193 times more likely than youth in the general population to report involvement with the child welfare system.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">9 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2017</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 09 Aug 2017 17:44:32 +0000 webfull 129596 at /channels