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Service Utilization Patterns Of Homeless Youth, Sarah L. Akinyemi
Service Utilization Patterns Of Homeless Youth, Sarah L. Akinyemi
Department of Sociology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Few studies exist on the types of characteristics associated with service utilization (e.g., shelters, food programs) among homeless youth in the U.S. Services are important, however, because without food and shelter, numerous homeless youth resort to trading sex in order to meet their daily survival needs. Access to physical and mental health services gives homeless youth more of an opportunity to integrate into mainstream society than they would otherwise have. To address this gap in our understanding, my study examines what traits (e.g. age, race, abuse history) correlate with the use of shelters, food programs, street outreach, counseling, STD/STI testing, …