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Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women by Vanessa Oliver (Hardback, 2013)

Based on research that was awarded the Goverr General's Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an invative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women's access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes. In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by foregrounding the narratives of the women themselves, Oliver empowers a sub-section of the population that traditionally has t had a voice in determining policies that shape their realities. Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.

Place of Publication
Toronto
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
Vanessa Oliver Is an Assistant Professor in the Department Ofsociology at Mount Allison University.
Date of Publication
27/02/2013
Country of Publication
Canada

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