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Homeless Youth and Sexual Exploitation: Research Findings and Practice Implications

Publish Date: 
2009
Description: 

This issue brief reviews research regarding the involvement of unaccompanied, homeless youth in various types of sexual exploitation including survival sex and recruitment into the commercial sex industry and will recommend a series of programmatic responses to meet their needs. While research indicates that the majority of homeless youth avoid victimization in the commercial sex industry, its harmful impact on long‐term health and wellness scars tens of thousands of youth annually. Current rates of victimization among homeless youth are unacceptable, and its continued existence indicates an urgent need for an increased national investment in outreach, supportive services, and housing.

Homeless Youth and Sexual Exploitation: Research Findings and Practice Implications [1]
 

Bibliography: 
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Filed under
Sexual Violence and Homelessness/Poverty [2]
Filed under
Fact Sheets [3],Research Briefs [4]
Source URL: http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/fact-sheets/homeless-youth-and-sexual-exploitation-research-findings-and-practice-impli

Links:
[1] http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/general/detail/2559
[2] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/sexual-violence-and-homelessness/poverty
[3] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/fact-sheets
[4] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/research-briefs