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Pavlakis  \nMore than one million U.S. students experience homelessness (National Center for Homeless Education, 2019) . Although homelessness affects all racial groups, young people experiencing homelessness disproportionately identify as Black or Latinx (Hallett & Skrla, 2017) .  \nThese youth, most of whom live in poverty, tend to face a variety of educational challenges (Hallett & Skrla, 2017) . Community-based out-of-school time (OST) programs, which often have more flexibility to innovate and meet local needs than traditional schools do, can provide critical support for youth who are overlooked in mainstream educational settings (Baldridge, Beck, Medina, & Reeves, 2017; Ginwright & Cammarota, 2002; Hirsch, Deutsch, & DuBois, 2011) . Community-based OST programs and centers may provide young people who are experiencing homelessness not only with a break from their adverse living conditions but also with access to community resources and opportunities to build relationships.  \nIn particular, creative youth development (CYD) OST programs, which blend a focus on skills, assets, relationships, and development with a purposeful emphasis on creation, inquiry, and expression, may be particularly helpful in contexts of housing instability. Using an afterschool center I refer to as “Metrohaven,”this study explores the potential of CYD in OST programming to support the development of young people experiencing homelessness. Overviewsof student homelessness and of the Metrohaven context are followed by findings from my qualitative study of Metrohaven, built around the defining characteristics of CYD programming. My findings lead to recommendations that can help CYD-oriented  \nALEXANDRA E. PAVLAKIS, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership in the Simmons School of Education at Southern Methodist University. A former New York City public school teacher, she addresses in her research the social contexts of education, often focusing on poverty and homelessness. Her work has been published in Educational Researcher and Urban Education.  \nOST programs to work effectively with and for youth experiencing homelessness.  \nNational Center for Homeless Education, 2017; Pavlakis, 2018) has found that the policy can be implemented unevenly and that many students and  \nStudent Homelessness families are unaware of their rights. For instance,  \nStudents who experience homelessness tend to move despite McKinney-Vento, students experiencing homes and change schools often (Miller, 2011) . The homelessness can still face barriers attending schoolmoves, which are often unplanned, can interrupt based extracurricular activities, such as sports and learning and end relationships with friends, educa- clubs, due to residency requirements or equipment fees tors, mentors, and service providers (Miller, 2011) . (National Center for Homeless Education, 2017) . Students experiencing homelessness often have diffi- Factors that affect students’ experience of  \nculty finding places where they can store schoolbooks, homelessness include their age, race or ethnicity, clean their laundry, use a computer, or get a good sexual orientation, personality, family composition, night’s sleep (Hallett & Skrla, 2017; Pavlakis, 2018) . and geographic location, as well as the duration of Like their peers who also live in poverty, they may ex- their homelessness and where they sleep (Miller, 2011; perience hunger and face stigma at school (Hallett & Pavlakis, 2018) . Scholars aiming to address student Skrla, 2017; Miller, 2011) . These homelessness suggest that schools  \nchallenges can culminate in poor create safe and stable atmospheres;  \neducational outcomes such as low Youth experiencing build close relationships between achievement, poor attendance, homelessness may spend youth and adults; collaborate andcialihi","cbCaic0nPEWjfNI3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic0nPEWjfNI3","pdf",383400,"English","# Student Homelessness and Educational Challenges\n## Barriers to school participation\n## Factors shaping students’ experiences\n# Creative Youth Development (CYD) in OST Contexts\n## CYD characteristics and potential benefits\n## Metrohaven context and study focus\n# Findings and Recommendations\n## Guidance for effective CYD-oriented OST programming","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the document address for students experiencing homelessness?\",\"answer\":\"It describes how homelessness disrupts schooling through unplanned moves, barriers to participation in extracurricular activities, and difficulties managing basic needs such as storage, laundry, and access to a good night’s sleep.\"},{\"question\":\"How do community-based out-of-school time (OST) programs help these youth?\",\"answer\":\"They offer flexibility to innovate and meet local needs, provide breaks from adverse living conditions, connect youth to community resources, and help build relationships beyond mainstream educational settings.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the study emphasize creative youth development (CYD) within OST programming?\",\"answer\":\"CYD programs combine skills, assets, relationships, and development with a purposeful focus on creation, inquiry, and expression, which may be especially helpful in contexts of housing instability and can support identity and continued engagement in school.\"}]","Creative Youth Development in the Context of Homelessness - Supporting Stability While Creating Structural Change | PDF",1792070563,23]