At-Risk Youth: Contributing Factors and Ways to Help

Source : Donna Kehl , suite101.com

Poverty, abuse, and single parent homes contribute to at-risk youth dilemma. Learn to recognize the signs and find ways to help troubled kids.

At-risk youth are young people that are in danger of experiencing life difficulties or failures, whether it be in the home, at school, or out in society. Identifying the contributing factors that makes a young person become vulnerable is the first step in helping them to overcome such obstacles.

Homelessness, abuse, and poverty are well known contributing factors of a youth becoming at-risk. However, there are other contributing factors that may not be so well known, but should be examined further.