Jeff Karabanow (Draft Profile)

Dr. Jeff Karabanow has worked with homeless young people in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and Guatemala. He has published numerous academic articles about housing stability, service delivery systems, street health, and homeless youth culture. He has completed a film documentary looking at the plight of street youth in Guatemala City and several animated shorts on Canadian street youth culture. His most recent works include: a HRSDC funded investigation concerning street youth and their engagement in formal and informal economies a CMHC funded report on a young mothers’ supportive housing structure in Nova Scotia a SSHRC funded longitudinal study of young people’s sense of identity, community and health once they are no longer homeless a HRSDC study looking at rural-urban migration of Nova Scotian street youth and a book entitled Leaving the Streets: Stories of Canadian Youth published in 2010 by Fernwood Publishing