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
type: Proceedings Paper
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web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
year: '2014'