Purpose

Secondary education completion rates (i.e., high school diploma or General Education Development [GED]) among homeless youth (HY) are low in comparison with their housed peers.

Method

Secondary data with a sample of 429 HY was used from a 3-city study using quantitative retrospective interviews with a purposive sample of601 HY collected from 2010 to 2011 in social service organizations across three U.S. cities (Denver, CO, n = 201; Los Angeles, CA, n = 200; and Austin, TX,, n = 200). This study examines risk and resilience factors (i.e., demographics, childhood trauma, transience, mental health diagnosis, incarceration history, employment, and resilience) associated with the completion of secondary education among HY using logistic regression.

Results

Secondary completion was positively associated with identifying as female, formal employment, a sense of equanimity, and experiences of childhood emotional abuse. In contrast, secondary completion was negatively associated with a history of incarceration as well as experiences of childhood physical neglect and emotional neglect.

Discussion

Recommendations are made for strengthening educational institutions’ capacity to provide the comprehensive support services for HY to minimize risk factors and enhance protective factors. Similarly, the authors highlight how cross-sector collaboration, such as those approaches supported through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act, can be leveraged to minimize significant risk factors and promote resilience factors associated with secondary completion.

中文翻译：

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美国三个城市无家可归青年中学毕业的预测因素和国家政策的潜在应用

目的

与被安置的同龄人相比，无家可归青年 (HY) 的中学教育完成率（即高中文凭或通识教育发展 [GED]）较低。

方法

429 HY 样本的二手数据来自一项 3 城市研究，该研究使用定量回顾性访谈对 2010 年至 2011 年在美国三个城市的社会服务组织中收集的 601 HY 的有目的的样本（丹佛，科罗拉多州，n = 201；洛杉矶，加利福尼亚州，n = 200；和德克萨斯州奥斯汀，n = 200）。本研究使用逻辑回归检查与 HY 中学教育完成相关的风险和复原力因素（即人口统计、童年创伤、短暂性、心理健康诊断、监禁历史、就业和复原力）。

结果

中学毕业与女性身份、正式就业、平静感和童年情感虐待经历呈正相关。相比之下，二次完成与监禁史以及童年身体忽视和情感忽视的经历呈负相关。

讨论

建议加强教育机构的能力，为 HY 提供综合支持服务，以尽量减少风险因素并增强保护因素。同样，作者强调了如何利用跨部门合作，例如通过《劳动力创新和机会法案》和《麦金尼-文托无家可归者援助法案》支持的那些方法，来最大限度地减少重大风险因素并促进与二次完成相关的复原力因素。