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Between the Wizard and the Deep Blue Sea: Notes on Homeless Youth Advocacy and Community Coalition Building

Pacific Lutheran University

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	Abstract

This article features a series of short self-reflective narrative vignettes about the experiences that led me to build and ultimately lead a coalition of homeless youth advocates who began the challenging work of calling attention to the plight of homeless teenagers in a mid-size industrial Pacific Northwest city concerned primarily with providing for and controlling its chronic adult homeless population. In the essay I draw from personal memory, social policy history and data from a participatory action research project to shed light on both the institutional politics of homeless youth policy and the varied possibilities of sustained grassroots community advocacy.

First published on October 28, 2009
Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 2009, doi:10.1177/1532708609351161


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