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abstract: 'The rates of disengagement from school and youth unemployment rates
continue to rise in Australia and internationally. Social enterprises,
that is, intermediate labour market programs guided by a social mission,
are one method that is successfully addressing these issues and
assisting young people to obtain employment in the open labour market or
to re-engage with education. BoysTown is a not-for-profit organisation
that operates social enterprises for marginalised young people in lower
socioeconomic areas which contain high concentration of social housing
estates. The social housing in Australia is managed by State Government
who view the type of housing as welfare accommodation for low income
earners or people with support need. Griffith University collaborated
with BoysTown on an Australian Research Council linkage project to
assess the personal development outcomes as well as the employment and
education outcomes achieved by young people in the social enterprises.
Of the 542 participants in the study, 23\% (n = 126) were living in
social housing. The focus of this paper will be on this cohort and the
social enterprise work that they do in social housing areas. These
participants were dealing with barriers such as intergenerational
unemployment, limited work history, early school leaving, and low
qualifications. Surveys implemented with young people at their entry and
exit points of the social enterprises indicated statistically
significant improvements in a range of psycho-social and cultural as
well as cognitive-motivational outcomes for participant. Furthermore, a
high number of these young people achieved employment and education
outcomes. The findings of this study support the use of social
enterprises in engaging young people from social housing and assisting
them to obtain employment and education outcomes.'
affiliation: 'Scharr, S (Corresponding Author), Griffith Univ, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia.
Scharr, Salote, Griffith Univ, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia.
Scharr, Salote, BoysTown, Milton, Qld, Australia.
Bartlett, Brendan, Australian Catholic Univ, Sydney, NSW 2059, Australia.'
author: Scharr, Salote and Bartlett, Brendan
author_list:
- family: Scharr
given: Salote
- family: Bartlett
given: Brendan
booktitle: 'ICERI2014: 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION'
da: '2023-09-28'
editor: Chova, LG and Martinez, AL and Torres, IC
files: []
isbn: 978-84-617-2484-0
issn: 2340-1095
keywords: 'Social enterprises; employment; education; personal development; youth;
social housing'
language: English
note: '7th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
(ICERI), Seville, SPAIN, NOV 17-19, 2014'
number-of-cited-references: '12'
pages: 3728-3735
papis_id: 5d36a95511db31e78274683b8b5ad510
ref: Scharr2014youthliving
series: ICERI Proceedings
times-cited: '0'
title: YOUTH LIVING IN SOCIAL HOUSING AREAS ACHIEVING EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES THROUGH
PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
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type: proceedings
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unique-id: WOS:000367082903114
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
year: '2014'