This article analyses the interaction between street children and youth and the people who
try to help them. We seek to understand our outsiders' role in the children and youth's career …

The purpose of this study was to observe behaviors of street children in Ciudad Juárez,
Mexico in an effort to gain a better understanding of their conditions. The study's aims were …

The large number of street children in Latin America, the lack of a clear definition of the
problem, its complex causes, the lack of'a solution'and the uncertainty regarding the …

A notable absentee from the ten-point action plan set out by the 1990 World Summit for
Children was the issue of street children. Y et such children are a common sight in cities of …

THE SOUND OF GUNSHOTS WAS NOT particularly unusual in Washington Heights, a
section of New York City where drug deals were common and children learned early to be …

For homeless children, assuming responsibility for their own survival is an act of self-
empowerment. However, society tends to see these children as victims to be rescued …

This narrative reflects a practitioner's formative experience as a VISTA volunteer, forming
and working with a group of Mexican American adolescents before receiving any formal …

Employing in-depth interviews with street children and service providers, and case analyses,
this article explores programs and/or organizations in Toronto, Montreal, and Guatemala …

Obstacles to definitions and their implications It has been said that the term'street
children'says little more about the members of the population it proports to describe than …

This chapter seeks to identify the attempt of two communities (one Mexican American, one
African American, both low-income) to authentically involve young people in the …