Children living in homes where intimate partner violence occurs are often exposed to such violence through witnessing, seeing its effects, hearing about it, or otherwise being made aware that violence is taking place between ...

In this paper the authors describe the rationale and findings from a study focused on documenting the conditions for supporting at-risk young mothers and their children within the context of an integrated childcare-lifes ...

This paper explores the origins and intentions of the alternative education movement and puzzles over the apparent reduction of alternative education in one school district in a medium-size city in British Columbia, Canada. ...

This article provides an overview of the changing nature of family homelessness in the US and Canada, the current literature on homeless families and their children, and reports on a Canadian example of community-based ...

This paper describes the development of a needs assessment guide that is user-friendly, facilitates the development of the youth-counselor relationship, and is sensitive to gender, sexual orientation and cultural diversity. ...