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Almost Home de Kevin Ryan

Almost Home

Autor Kevin Ryan, Tina Kelley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2012

Remarcăm în lucrarea de față o abordare care transcende simpla statistică, oferind o perspectivă umană și profund documentată asupra crizei tinerilor fără adăpost. Ceea ce aduce nou Almost Home este sinergia dintre experiența directă de teren a lui Kevin Ryan și precizia jurnalistică a Tinei Kelley. Autorii nu se limitează la expunerea traumelor, ci construiesc un cadru de înțelegere a mecanismelor care îi împing pe tineri la marginea societății, de la eșecul sistemului de asistență maternală până la respingerea bazată pe orientarea sexuală.

Subliniem structura echilibrată a cărții, care alternează capitole dedicate unor cazuri individuale — precum Paulie, Muriel sau Benjamin — cu secțiuni de analiză sistemică. De exemplu, povestea lui Muriel servește drept punct de plecare pentru o discuție despre protecția victimelor traficului uman, în timp ce experiența lui Benjamin oferă contextul necesar pentru propuneri de reformare a sistemului de plasament. Almost Home este comparabil cu No House to Call My Home de Ryan Berg în rigurozitate și compasiune, dar se distinge prin includerea unor „pași de acțiune” clari și a unor recomandări de politici publice, transformând lectura dintr-o experiență pasivă într-un apel la implicare.

În contextul operei lui Kevin Ryan, această carte reprezintă o aplicare practică a preocupărilor sale constante pentru etică și educația caracterului, teme regăsite în lucrări precum Teaching for Student Learning. Dacă în textele sale anterioare Ryan se concentra pe formarea profesorilor, aici el extinde analiza asupra responsabilității sociale față de cei mai vulnerabili membri ai comunității. Rezultatul este un volum care îmbină durerea abandonului cu speranța recuperării, exemplificată prin destinele unor tineri care devin campioni sportivi sau consilieri pentru alți adolescenți aflați în dificultate.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781118230473
ISBN-10: 1118230477
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 154 x 233 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Turner Publishing Company
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

Public țintă

Readers of current affairs and sociology books; people concerned about homelessness and at–risk youth

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cei interesați de sociologie și asistență socială, oferind o privire onestă asupra vieții pe stradă. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o înțelegere profundă a cauzelor sărăciei extreme, ci și instrumente concrete pentru a ajuta. Este o lectură despre reziliență, care demonstrează cum intervenția corectă a unei comunități poate transforma un destin frânt într-o poveste de succes.

Despre autor

Kevin Ryan este președintele Covenant House și un expert recunoscut în educația caracterului, cu un doctorat obținut la Universitatea Stanford. Fost profesor la Universitatea din Boston și fondator al Centrului pentru Avansarea Eticii și Caracterului, Ryan a scris peste 20 de cărți axate pe pedagogie și formare morală. Tina Kelley aduce rigoarea investigativă în acest proiect, fiind o jurnalistă de prestigiu care a activat timp de un deceniu la New York Times, unde a făcut parte din echipa premiată cu Pulitzer pentru acoperirea evenimentelor de la 11 septembrie.

Descriere scurtă

Inside the lives of homeless teens moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless and runaway youth in North America. From the son of a crack addict who fights his own descent into drug addiction to a teen mother reaching for a new life, their stories veer between devastating and inspiring as they each struggle to find a place called home.
  • Includes a foreword by Newark Mayor Cory Booker
  • Shares the personal stories of six homeless youths grappling with issues such as drug addiction, family violence, prostitution, rejection based on sexual orientation, teen parenthood, and aging out of foster care into a future with limited skills and no support system
  • Gives voice to the estimated 1.6 million young people in the United States and Canada who run away or are kicked out of their homes each year
  • Includes striking photographs, stories of firsthand experiences mentoring and working with homeless and troubled youth, and practical suggestions on how to get involved
  • Discusses the root causes of homelessness among young people, and policy recommendations to address them
  • Provides action steps readers can take to fight youth homelessness and assist individual homeless young people
  • Written by Kevin Ryan, president of Covenant House, and Pulitzer Prize nominee and former New York Times writer Tina Kelley
Inviting us to get to know homeless teens as more than an accumulation of statistics and societal issues, this book gives a human face to a huge but largely invisible problem and offers practical insights into how to prevent homelessness and help homeless youth move to a hopeful future. For instance, one kid in the book goes on to become a college football player and counselor to at–risk adolescents and another becomes a state kickboxing champion. All the stories inspire us with victories of the human spirit, large and small. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each book will help support kids who benefit from Covenant House′s shelter and outreach services.

Descriere

"Almost Home is that rare and special book that inspires us to make a difference."
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey
Almost Home tells the remarkable true stories of six young people as they struggle to find home, stopping along the way at Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless, trafficked, and runaway youth in the Americas. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of the 1.6 million young people in North America who run away or are kicked out of their homes each year, grappling with issues such as family violence, prostitution, teen parenthood, rejection based on sexual orientation, and aging out of foster care without a family. Full of hope, compassion, and practical suggestions on how to fight youth homelessness, Almost Home shows us how to help young people attain the bright futures they deserve.
"With narrative precision and journalistic detail, the heartbreaking trajectory from abandonment and abuse to teen homelessness is laid bare in this book. . . . The compassionately told stories of survival are almost miraculous."
Publishers Weekly
"The trick of engaging readers on public policy matters is to tell human stories. Suddenly, the person we dismiss, fear, or even judge is alive before us and utterly familiar, and we learn, as we do in this powerful and inspirational book, the true meaning of courage, grace, and hope."
Steve Lopez, New York Times bestselling author of The Soloist
"The moving stories here offer a sense of promise, a belief that with guidance, empathy, and some semblance of home even the most wounded teens can thrive."
Alex Kotlowitz, bestselling author of There Are No Children Here
"Almost Home accomplishes something very rare in a book about the homeless it is both descriptive and prescriptive. A vital read for anyone who cares about the future of our society."
Dale Maharidge, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And Their Children After Them

Cuprins

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword by Cory Booker xi
Preface: Years to Understand the Light by Kevin Ryan xvii
Preface: Help and the Homing Instinct by Tina Kelley xxiii
Introduction 1
1 A Son Walks Alone: Paulie s Story 12
Arriving at Covenant House 21
The Costs of Not Caring 39
Homeless, but Graduating 42
2 A Survivor Facing Her Future: Muriel s Story 46
Arriving at Covenant House 56
Helping Trafficking Victims, Holding Exploiters Accountable 62
Fighting Back on Many Fronts 67
3 Moving Forward after Foster Care: Benjamin s Story 72
Memories of Mistreatment 77
Working toward Mental Health 83
Arriving at Covenant House 88
Fixing Foster Care 107
4 A Homeless Teen Mother Reaching for a New Life: Creionna s Story 115
Homelessness in New Orleans 120
Arriving at Covenant House 126
Help for Young Parents 138
5 A Teenager with Nowhere to Go and His Mentor: Keith s and Jim s Stories 153
Arriving at Covenant House 167
Keith′s Thoughts on the Meaning of a Mentor 171
Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg on Fostering Resilience through Mentoring 176
The Power of a Presence 178
6 Searching for Safety: Meagan s Story 182
Arriving at Covenant House 191
Meagan on Her Moms and Her Future 197
Helping LGBTQ Youth 199
7 Separate Paths Uniting: Paulie Revisited 201
The Death of Decal 206
8 What You Can Do: Steps to Help Homeless Young People Thrive 210
Mentoring 210
Anti–Traffi cking Efforts 211
Supporting LGBTQ Youth 212
Advocacy Work 213
In the Community 214
What You Can Do from Your Computer 216
On the Home Front 216
Keep Us Posted 217
To Learn More 217
Epilogue 219
Notes 221
Index 224
Photo gallery begins on page 143

Recenzii

With narrative precision and journalistic detail, the heartbreaking trajectory from abandonment and abuse to teen homelessness is laid bare in this book by Covenant House president Ryan and staff member Kelley, a former New York Times reporter. Telling the story of six young people who came to a Covenant House, the nationwide network of faith–based homes for homeless and runaway youth, Ryan and Kelley uncover their dire circumstances as well as efforts by Covenant House staff, and the kids themselves, to get off the streets. In addition, the authors highlight such issues as human trafficking, the shortcomings of the foster care system, and the financial cost of not caring for homeless youth, as well as providing suggestions and resources for mentoring, helping teen parents, and supporting LGBTQ youth. The compassionately told stories of survival are almost miraculous: a young man who had been abandoned and abused by his adoptive parents proudly returns to Covenant House to cook and serve a gourmet meal; another, bearing physical scars, walks the halls as an at–risk coordinator for a high school; and in the epilogue, we learn that a young woman who had survived drug addiction and prostitution has been accepted to college to study juvenile justice. (Publishers Weekly, October 2012)

Notă biografică

KEVIN RYAN is President of Covenant House International, which reaches 56,000 at–risk and street youth in more than twenty cities across six countries. Ryan is one of the country′s most respected child advocates and his work has been covered by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper 360, and other national media.
TINA KELLEY was a staff writer for the New York Times for ten years and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the paper′s coverage of the September 11 attacks. She wrote 121 "Portraits of Grief" profiles of the victims and is the author of two books of poetry, The Gospel of Galore and Precise.