Re: Question on reasons for youth leaving home

[<Ann_Jolly@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Edward,

So far we have looked at risky sexual behaviours high numbers of partners,
gender of partners,anal intercourse, low condom use , including trading sex for
shelter, drugs or other items.  We also look at drug use, both injection and non
injection, frequency, and type smoking, alcohol use & needle sharing/cleaning.
In addition we also took blood for Hep C and urine for testing for chlamydia and
gonorrhea.

Hope that helps!

By the way I know the Downtown Eastside quite well; I have been working on the
syphilis outbreak in that area.




Edward Adrian Lentz <ealent@xxxxxxxx> on 11/18/2000 04:50:23 PM

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Subject:  Re: Question on reasons for youth leaving home



Ann - I'd be interested in the results of your inquiry below (post to the list
or
backchannel me).  I am embarking on a 2-year ethnological study of
gay/bi/trans/queer adolescent males on the downtown eastside of Vancouver,
British
Columbia, looking at how the violence in their lives influences their behavior
accessing the social service & mental health systems.  Any pointers to
investigating
the risk behaviors of these types of kids are always welcome.

(Bit of background for those on the list: The downtown eastside of Vancouver
holds a
number of unfortunate distinctions: 1) the poorest neighborhood in Canada, 2)
the
highest prevalence level of AIDS/HIV+ in North America, 3) &, I believe, the
highest
per capita rate of drug related deaths in North America).

Adrian Lentz
Doctoral student, Child & Youth Care
Faculty of Human & Social Development
University of Victoria, BC
P.O. Box 1700
Victoria  BC  Canada  V8W 2Y2

cell 1.250.216.2201
fax  1.250.381-5564
elentz@xxxxxxx    or    ealent@xxxxxxxx (better for attachments)

Ann_Jolly@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi there,
> I am part of a team doing a study on sexually transmitted diseases in street
> youth in seven cities across Canada.
>
> We are trying to obtain tested questions, ( one or two) on the reasons why
youth
> decide to leave home in the first place.  Some of the reasons included in the
> previous phase of data collection include "fighting" or "too many rules".
> However, this does not give us a  good indication of whether the youth or the
> adult may be unreasonable in their expectations.  For example, the youth may
> come home with his hair dyed blue, and his parents throw him out of the house.
> But they did not previously let him know that there was such a rule, so he
could
> not have been expected to abide by it.
>
> Any help would be most welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Ann