Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives

Poverty and unemployment are on the rise among Canadian youth.Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives looks at the issuefrom the perspective of those most affected, revealing the difficultiesyoung people encounter with the support system. In-depthinterviews with forty-five young people in Ottawa reveal that solutionsdo exist, predicated on recognition that the problem lies not withincorrigible youth, but with a social-aid structure that imposesbarriers to success. Intervention is necessary, argue the authors,but not so much in the lives of young people as in the faultystructures that incorrectly presume how they interpret risk, poverty,and their own potential.