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

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dc.contributor.authorHendry, David G.
dc.contributor.authorAbokhodair, Norah
dc.contributor.authorKinsley, Rose Paquet
dc.contributor.authorWoelfer, Jill Palzkill
dc.contributor.editorLewkowicz, Myriam
dc.contributor.editorRohde, Markus
dc.contributor.editorMulder, Ingrid
dc.contributor.editorSchuler, Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-04T19:54:11Z
dc.date.available2019-04-04T19:54:11Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractWe 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3083671.3083680
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-4854-6
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherACM Press, New York
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
dc.subjectCommunity-based Research
dc.subjectDay Labor
dc.subjectHomeless Young People
dc.subjectJobs
dc.subjectNeighborhoods
dc.subjectNon-profit Organizations
dc.subjectPeer-to-peer Sharing Systems
dc.subjectSocio-technical Systems
dc.titleHomeless Young People, Jobs, and a Future Vision: Community Members' Perceptions of the Job Co-open
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.endPage31
gi.citation.startPage22
gi.conference.dateJune 26-30, 2017
gi.conference.locationTroyes, France
gi.conference.sessiontitleLong Papers
mci.conference.reviewfull

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