Jeff Karabanow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 93770 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeff Karabanow |
| NOMBRES | Jeff |
| APELLIDO | Karabanow |
| FIRMA | KARABANOW J |
| AFILIACIONES | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7537-2624 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Addressing housing insecurity as a social determinant of health
Promoting Emergency Response for Homeless Service Agencies
The fast unfolding of the global COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the homeless sector by triggering tremendous challenges for individuals experiencing homelessness (IEHs) and related service agencies. This quick-response research project qualitatively collected time-sensitive data from the IEHs and service stakeholders (SSs) experiences, challenges, efforts, and suggestions during the first wave of COVID-19 in the two most popula…
Building Emergency Response Capacity
The dramatic increase of global extreme events (e.g., natural, technological, and willful hazards) propels social workers to be equipped with emergency response capacity, supporting affected individuals, families, and communities to prepare, respond, and recover from disasters. Although social workers have historically been engaged in emergency response, social work curriculum and professional training remain slow to adapt, jeopardizing their cap…
On the Front Lines
This article examines the experiences of the nonprofit, homeless-serving sector during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative interviews were conducted with staff and volunteers from frontline organizations in the two largest communities in Nova Scotia, Canada. Participants reported much strain on their organizations' human resources, but also the ability to adjust service delivery mechanisms quickly in order to continue offering su…
A reflection on living through Covid-19 as a social work professor
This short exposaccent is a reflective piece on my work with people experiencing homelessness in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper provides an intimate portrait of the fragility, insecurity and uncertainty of navigating social justice work during a state of emergency. As such, I attempt to provide a brief sketch of being a social work professor and practitioner during this surreal time
Covid-19 and beyond
During the COVID-19 emergency response of ‘staying the blazes home’ in Nova Scotia, Canada, frontline social workers worked tirelessly ‘out of the home’ to secure safe dwellings for those on the street, living in shelters, and/or precariously housed. When the province moves to the reopening and recovery stage, social work strategies will focus on reducing homeless people’s vulnerabilities, aiming to offer safe and dignified living
More than four walls and a roof needed
This article examines the feasibility of a complex intervention designed to facilitate the transition of youth out of homelessness. It is intended to contribute to efforts to build out the youth homelessness intervention literature, which is underdeveloped relative to descriptive characterizations of risk. The 6-month intervention examined here, referred to as the Housing Outreach Program-Collaboration (HOP-C), is comprised of transitional outrea…
Conflict with the Law’
Youth without housing experience more regulation and conflict with criminal justice than their housed counterparts. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with fifty-one young people, we focus on how efforts to move away from homelessness towards long-term housing stability are impacted by conflict with law, a term referring to a broad range of experiences with various authorities in the legal system, social services, shelters, etc. Our paper come…
Toward Housing Stability
This paper explores the lives of formerly homeless young people as they transitioned towards housing stability. The study employed a longitudinal design involving 51 street youth in Halifax, N.S. (n = 21) and Toronto, ON (n = 30). This paper sheds light upon the pathways through which young people transitioned away from homelessness using the developmental lens of emerging adulthood: a stage involving numerous developmental struggles (identity, i…
Dialectical Behavior Therapy as a catalyst for change in street-involved youth
Improving psychosocial health and employment outcomes for individuals receiving methadone treatment
It is important to consider how the contexts of interventions might elicit and/or support clients' engagement. Further research is needed to explore how an individual's background (e.g., involvement with different interventions over an extended period) may influence engagement. Long-term engagement may be necessary to sustain some positive outcomes although how long is unclear and requires further research. Engagement can occur without complete a…
How Stable Is Stable? Defining and Measuring Housing Stability
Despite housing stability being a key concept in housing and homelessness policy, research, and service provision, it remains poorly defined and conceptualized, and to date there are no standard measures. We use in‐depth qualitative interviews with 51 young people transitioning away homelessness over the course of a year to examine the core dimensions of housing stability. Due to the potential for sudden change, we define housing stability as the…
Keeping the focus on safer practices
Challenges and opportunities to integrating family members of injection drug users into harm reduction efforts within the Atlantic Canadian context
Access to harm reduction services in Atlantic Canada
The Economics of Being Young and Poor
Based upon in-depth interviews with 34 youth in Halifax and seven service providers in St. John's, Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary, the findings of this study suggest that labor occurs within a particular street context and street culture. Formal and informal work can be inter-related, and despite the hardships they experience, young people who are homeless or who are at-risk of homelessness can respond to their circumstances w…
Travailler pour survivre
Le présent article explore les diverses formes que prennent l’emploi et les « petits boulots » dans la vie des jeunes de la rue. L’étude a été faite à Halifax, au Canada, et porte sur un matériel tiré d’entretiens menés auprès de 34 jeunes. Les résultats de l’enquête suggèrent que l’économie du travail à laquelle doivent faire face les jeunes de la rue revêt un aspect autant formel qu’informel. Ils montrent aussi que ces jeunes sont motivés mais …
Intimate relationships and women involved in the sex trade
This article reports on a qualitative study exploring the intimate (non-work) relationships of women involved in the sex trade. Women working in the sex industry and intimate partners of women in the industry were interviewed in order to understand how intimate relationships are perceived as influencing the women's general health and well-being. The research suggests that intimate relationships can, and do, provide a space for feelings of inclusi…
Getting off the Street
This article explores the ways in which young people across Canada attempt to exit street life. Through semistructured interviews with 128 young people and 50 service providers in six Canadian cities, the goal of the research was to identify the strategies and challenges of street exiting to inform service providers and policy makers as to the complexities and struggles involved in young people's experiences with street disengagement. Findings su…
Becoming a Street Kid
This analysis explores the perceptions of youth on the street in constructing identity throughout their street life experiences. Data collection involved in-depth interviews with 98 street youth and 42 service providers in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax, and participant and non-participant observations of street life and shelter culture in all three locations. The findings highlight the stages of “becoming a street youth” and the elements that sh…
A clash of cultures
There is considerable evidence to suggest that older people living in situations of mistreatment and neglect are reluctant to accept help. This is attributed to the high value that older generations place on their privacy and family integrity, and on their ability to cope and remain in charge of their lives. These values are particularly strong in rural communities. The paper explores the challenges these cultural norms pose for formal and inform…
Changing faces
This study addresses the relationship between street youth shelters and formal child welfare systems in Toronto, Canada. Two case examples, Covenant House (CH) and Youth Without Shelter (YWS), are examined through archival material, participant observations and structured interviews with 21 front‐line and managerial shelter workers. The findings suggest that both shelters have formed reciprocal and unequal partnerships with formal child‐welfare o…
Creating a Culture of Hope
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 City that have been successful in attracting street children. Four keyelements regarding service delivery are proposed: provide direct and immediate basic services; build a sense of community that is safe and supportive; create linkages to mainstream culture; and, advo…
Open for Business
Youth shelters have emerged as significant resources for homeless and runaway adolescents. Through participant observations of shelter culture, review of agency archival materials, and in-depth interviews with 21 shelter workers (front line staff, middle managers, and upper-level executives), this analysis explores the life stages of two Canadian street youth shelters, highlighting the dramatic transformations in their internal operations and ext…
When Caring Is Not Enough
Organizations often dictate how their employees should behave through explicit rules and structures. In addition, sociologists and organizational theorists suggest that organizations invest energy, time, and money into creating a uniform mentality through selective hiring, formal meetings, and informal gatherings. Based on in‐depth interviews with seven frontline workers at a Canadian youth shelter, this article explores the concept of emotional …
Creating a Culture of Hope
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 City that have been successful in attracting street children. Four keyelements regarding service delivery are proposed: provide direct and immediate basic services; build a sense of community that is safe and supportive; create linkages to mainstream culture; and, advo…
How Stable Is Stable? Defining and Measuring Housing Stability
Despite housing stability being a key concept in housing and homelessness policy, research, and service provision, it remains poorly defined and conceptualized, and to date there are no standard measures. We use in‐depth qualitative interviews with 51 young people transitioning away homelessness over the course of a year to examine the core dimensions of housing stability. Due to the potential for sudden change, we define housing stability as the…
Getting off the Street
This article explores the ways in which young people across Canada attempt to exit street life. Through semistructured interviews with 128 young people and 50 service providers in six Canadian cities, the goal of the research was to identify the strategies and challenges of street exiting to inform service providers and policy makers as to the complexities and struggles involved in young people's experiences with street disengagement. Findings su…
Covid-19 and beyond
During the COVID-19 emergency response of ‘staying the blazes home’ in Nova Scotia, Canada, frontline social workers worked tirelessly ‘out of the home’ to secure safe dwellings for those on the street, living in shelters, and/or precariously housed. When the province moves to the reopening and recovery stage, social work strategies will focus on reducing homeless people’s vulnerabilities, aiming to offer safe and dignified living
Becoming a Street Kid
This analysis explores the perceptions of youth on the street in constructing identity throughout their street life experiences. Data collection involved in-depth interviews with 98 street youth and 42 service providers in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax, and participant and non-participant observations of street life and shelter culture in all three locations. The findings highlight the stages of “becoming a street youth” and the elements that sh…
When Caring Is Not Enough
Organizations often dictate how their employees should behave through explicit rules and structures. In addition, sociologists and organizational theorists suggest that organizations invest energy, time, and money into creating a uniform mentality through selective hiring, formal meetings, and informal gatherings. Based on in‐depth interviews with seven frontline workers at a Canadian youth shelter, this article explores the concept of emotional …
The Economics of Being Young and Poor
Based upon in-depth interviews with 34 youth in Halifax and seven service providers in St. John's, Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary, the findings of this study suggest that labor occurs within a particular street context and street culture. Formal and informal work can be inter-related, and despite the hardships they experience, young people who are homeless or who are at-risk of homelessness can respond to their circumstances w…
Intimate relationships and women involved in the sex trade
This article reports on a qualitative study exploring the intimate (non-work) relationships of women involved in the sex trade. Women working in the sex industry and intimate partners of women in the industry were interviewed in order to understand how intimate relationships are perceived as influencing the women's general health and well-being. The research suggests that intimate relationships can, and do, provide a space for feelings of inclusi…
Structure Versus Caring
Access to harm reduction services in Atlantic Canada
Toward Housing Stability
This paper explores the lives of formerly homeless young people as they transitioned towards housing stability. The study employed a longitudinal design involving 51 street youth in Halifax, N.S. (n = 21) and Toronto, ON (n = 30). This paper sheds light upon the pathways through which young people transitioned away from homelessness using the developmental lens of emerging adulthood: a stage involving numerous developmental struggles (identity, i…
Open for Business
Youth shelters have emerged as significant resources for homeless and runaway adolescents. Through participant observations of shelter culture, review of agency archival materials, and in-depth interviews with 21 shelter workers (front line staff, middle managers, and upper-level executives), this analysis explores the life stages of two Canadian street youth shelters, highlighting the dramatic transformations in their internal operations and ext…
Conflict with the Law’
Youth without housing experience more regulation and conflict with criminal justice than their housed counterparts. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with fifty-one young people, we focus on how efforts to move away from homelessness towards long-term housing stability are impacted by conflict with law, a term referring to a broad range of experiences with various authorities in the legal system, social services, shelters, etc. Our paper come…
Changing faces
This study addresses the relationship between street youth shelters and formal child welfare systems in Toronto, Canada. Two case examples, Covenant House (CH) and Youth Without Shelter (YWS), are examined through archival material, participant observations and structured interviews with 21 front‐line and managerial shelter workers. The findings suggest that both shelters have formed reciprocal and unequal partnerships with formal child‐welfare o…
Travailler pour survivre
Le présent article explore les diverses formes que prennent l’emploi et les « petits boulots » dans la vie des jeunes de la rue. L’étude a été faite à Halifax, au Canada, et porte sur un matériel tiré d’entretiens menés auprès de 34 jeunes. Les résultats de l’enquête suggèrent que l’économie du travail à laquelle doivent faire face les jeunes de la rue revêt un aspect autant formel qu’informel. Ils montrent aussi que ces jeunes sont motivés mais …
Structure Versus Caring
When Caring Is Not Enough
Organizations often dictate how their employees should behave through explicit rules and structures. In addition, sociologists and organizational theorists suggest that organizations invest energy, time, and money into creating a uniform mentality through selective hiring, formal meetings, and informal gatherings. Based on in‐depth interviews with seven frontline workers at a Canadian youth shelter, this article explores the concept of emotional …
Open for Business
Youth shelters have emerged as significant resources for homeless and runaway adolescents. Through participant observations of shelter culture, review of agency archival materials, and in-depth interviews with 21 shelter workers (front line staff, middle managers, and upper-level executives), this analysis explores the life stages of two Canadian street youth shelters, highlighting the dramatic transformations in their internal operations and ext…
Creating a Culture of Hope
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 City that have been successful in attracting street children. Four keyelements regarding service delivery are proposed: provide direct and immediate basic services; build a sense of community that is safe and supportive; create linkages to mainstream culture; and, advo…
Changing faces
This study addresses the relationship between street youth shelters and formal child welfare systems in Toronto, Canada. Two case examples, Covenant House (CH) and Youth Without Shelter (YWS), are examined through archival material, participant observations and structured interviews with 21 front‐line and managerial shelter workers. The findings suggest that both shelters have formed reciprocal and unequal partnerships with formal child‐welfare o…
A clash of cultures
There is considerable evidence to suggest that older people living in situations of mistreatment and neglect are reluctant to accept help. This is attributed to the high value that older generations place on their privacy and family integrity, and on their ability to cope and remain in charge of their lives. These values are particularly strong in rural communities. The paper explores the challenges these cultural norms pose for formal and inform…
Becoming a Street Kid
This analysis explores the perceptions of youth on the street in constructing identity throughout their street life experiences. Data collection involved in-depth interviews with 98 street youth and 42 service providers in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax, and participant and non-participant observations of street life and shelter culture in all three locations. The findings highlight the stages of “becoming a street youth” and the elements that sh…
Getting off the Street
This article explores the ways in which young people across Canada attempt to exit street life. Through semistructured interviews with 128 young people and 50 service providers in six Canadian cities, the goal of the research was to identify the strategies and challenges of street exiting to inform service providers and policy makers as to the complexities and struggles involved in young people's experiences with street disengagement. Findings su…
Intimate relationships and women involved in the sex trade
This article reports on a qualitative study exploring the intimate (non-work) relationships of women involved in the sex trade. Women working in the sex industry and intimate partners of women in the industry were interviewed in order to understand how intimate relationships are perceived as influencing the women's general health and well-being. The research suggests that intimate relationships can, and do, provide a space for feelings of inclusi…
The Economics of Being Young and Poor
Based upon in-depth interviews with 34 youth in Halifax and seven service providers in St. John's, Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary, the findings of this study suggest that labor occurs within a particular street context and street culture. Formal and informal work can be inter-related, and despite the hardships they experience, young people who are homeless or who are at-risk of homelessness can respond to their circumstances w…
Travailler pour survivre
Le présent article explore les diverses formes que prennent l’emploi et les « petits boulots » dans la vie des jeunes de la rue. L’étude a été faite à Halifax, au Canada, et porte sur un matériel tiré d’entretiens menés auprès de 34 jeunes. Les résultats de l’enquête suggèrent que l’économie du travail à laquelle doivent faire face les jeunes de la rue revêt un aspect autant formel qu’informel. Ils montrent aussi que ces jeunes sont motivés mais …
Challenges and opportunities to integrating family members of injection drug users into harm reduction efforts within the Atlantic Canadian context
Access to harm reduction services in Atlantic Canada
Keeping the focus on safer practices
Improving psychosocial health and employment outcomes for individuals receiving methadone treatment
It is important to consider how the contexts of interventions might elicit and/or support clients' engagement. Further research is needed to explore how an individual's background (e.g., involvement with different interventions over an extended period) may influence engagement. Long-term engagement may be necessary to sustain some positive outcomes although how long is unclear and requires further research. Engagement can occur without complete a…
How Stable Is Stable? Defining and Measuring Housing Stability
Despite housing stability being a key concept in housing and homelessness policy, research, and service provision, it remains poorly defined and conceptualized, and to date there are no standard measures. We use in‐depth qualitative interviews with 51 young people transitioning away homelessness over the course of a year to examine the core dimensions of housing stability. Due to the potential for sudden change, we define housing stability as the…
Dialectical Behavior Therapy as a catalyst for change in street-involved youth
Conflict with the Law’
Youth without housing experience more regulation and conflict with criminal justice than their housed counterparts. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with fifty-one young people, we focus on how efforts to move away from homelessness towards long-term housing stability are impacted by conflict with law, a term referring to a broad range of experiences with various authorities in the legal system, social services, shelters, etc. Our paper come…
Toward Housing Stability
This paper explores the lives of formerly homeless young people as they transitioned towards housing stability. The study employed a longitudinal design involving 51 street youth in Halifax, N.S. (n = 21) and Toronto, ON (n = 30). This paper sheds light upon the pathways through which young people transitioned away from homelessness using the developmental lens of emerging adulthood: a stage involving numerous developmental struggles (identity, i…
More than four walls and a roof needed
This article examines the feasibility of a complex intervention designed to facilitate the transition of youth out of homelessness. It is intended to contribute to efforts to build out the youth homelessness intervention literature, which is underdeveloped relative to descriptive characterizations of risk. The 6-month intervention examined here, referred to as the Housing Outreach Program-Collaboration (HOP-C), is comprised of transitional outrea…
Covid-19 and beyond
During the COVID-19 emergency response of ‘staying the blazes home’ in Nova Scotia, Canada, frontline social workers worked tirelessly ‘out of the home’ to secure safe dwellings for those on the street, living in shelters, and/or precariously housed. When the province moves to the reopening and recovery stage, social work strategies will focus on reducing homeless people’s vulnerabilities, aiming to offer safe and dignified living
A reflection on living through Covid-19 as a social work professor
This short exposaccent is a reflective piece on my work with people experiencing homelessness in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper provides an intimate portrait of the fragility, insecurity and uncertainty of navigating social justice work during a state of emergency. As such, I attempt to provide a brief sketch of being a social work professor and practitioner during this surreal time
Building Emergency Response Capacity
The dramatic increase of global extreme events (e.g., natural, technological, and willful hazards) propels social workers to be equipped with emergency response capacity, supporting affected individuals, families, and communities to prepare, respond, and recover from disasters. Although social workers have historically been engaged in emergency response, social work curriculum and professional training remain slow to adapt, jeopardizing their cap…
On the Front Lines
This article examines the experiences of the nonprofit, homeless-serving sector during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative interviews were conducted with staff and volunteers from frontline organizations in the two largest communities in Nova Scotia, Canada. Participants reported much strain on their organizations' human resources, but also the ability to adjust service delivery mechanisms quickly in order to continue offering su…
Promoting Emergency Response for Homeless Service Agencies
The fast unfolding of the global COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the homeless sector by triggering tremendous challenges for individuals experiencing homelessness (IEHs) and related service agencies. This quick-response research project qualitatively collected time-sensitive data from the IEHs and service stakeholders (SSs) experiences, challenges, efforts, and suggestions during the first wave of COVID-19 in the two most popula…
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