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Homeless Young People, Jobs, and a Future Vision: Community Members' Perceptions of the Job Co-op

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2017

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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
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ACM Press, New York

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We report on an empirical study where neighborhood stakeholders' views of the Job Co-op future vision were investigated. Taking on the values of a grassroots service agency, while also drawing on emerging practices of peer-to-peer sharing systems, the Job Co-op matches homeless young people, up to age 30, to suitable jobs and job sponsors. Community members were invited to engage the future vison at a streetfair exhibition, comprising a carnival wheel of barriers and solutions to homelessness for beginning conversations; a storyboard for introducing the design vision; and a questionnaire for eliciting feedback. Qualitative analysis of 71 collected questionnaires explicated the socio-technical design space for addressing the problem of youth, homelessness, and jobs. The method demonstrates the use of exhibition design for constructing a design-oriented social context---for community engagement, for educational outreach, for disseminating research and design possibilities, for conducting research, and for cooperative design.

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Hendry, David G.; Abokhodair, Norah; Kinsley, Rose Paquet; Woelfer, Jill Palzkill (2017): Homeless Young People, Jobs, and a Future Vision: Community Members' Perceptions of the Job Co-op. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. DOI: 10.1145/3083671.3083680. ACM Press, New York. ISBN: 978-1-4503-4854-6. pp. 22-31. Long Papers. Troyes, France. June 26-30, 2017

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Community-based Research, Day Labor, Homeless Young People, Jobs, Neighborhoods, Non-profit Organizations, Peer-to-peer Sharing Systems, Socio-technical Systems

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10.1145/3083671.3083680

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C&T 2017: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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