Making Organizations Work: Exploring Characteristics of Anti-oppressive Organizational Structures in Street Youth Shelters

摘要: • Summary: Human service organizations are often viewed by clients as bureaucratic, formal, oppressive and insensitive environments. Through structured interviews with 42 providers 65 street youth in Toronto, Montreal Guatemala, participant non-participant observations all three locations, this analysis explores tenets of antioppressive organizational structures within the shelter construct.• Findings: Anti-oppressive allow for emergence meaningful vibrant community settings embracing grass-root social development, active participation, a structural problem, consciousness raising action. These findings can be interpreted lessons from field – noting what seems to work best hard-core marginalized populations. The current academic discourse concerning notions anti-oppression has tended focus upon pedagogy and/or practice; moves discussion new realm involving organiz...