Youth On The Streets: The Importance Of Social Interactions on Psychosocial Well-Being in an African Context

Sweta Shah, Georgina Graidage, and Josephine Valencia

This study reflects four months of research including a two-week field assignment to Ethiopia, with the overall goal of gaining greater understanding of the impact of street youth programming on psychosocial well-being. The research was conducted through a partnership between the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) and the George Washington University (GWU). It contains three deliverables, including a new framework for child well-being, the identification of five key program components of street children interventions that are most likely to successfully contribute to psychosocial well-being, and the development of indicators to measure outcomes and impacts within these five domains.

©United States Agency for International Development'€™s (USAID) Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF)

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