What would be the barriers to implementing these best practices?

Reflection Paper #3 Questions
1 Compare and contrast the ethnographic methodologies utilized by Marni Finkelstein in With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets and Kelly Night in Addicted. Pregnant. Poor. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of their approaches. How do you think that Professor Knight’s volunteer work as a health advocate inside the hotels she was studying affected (or did not affect) her research?
2 How does Marni Finkelstein employ the concept of fictive kin in her study? What evidence of fictive kin does she offer in her study of homeless youth? Compare and contrast the reasons the youth in Professor Finkelstein’s study gave for leaving home and surviving on the streets to their ideas about if, when, and how they would leave the streets. In focusing on the youth of Tompkins Square Park in the summertime, what groups of homeless youth might have been left out from Professor Finkelstein’s study?
3 A goal of anthropology is to tie the rich ethnographic descriptions that the anthropologists have garnered from their immersion in the field to the larger historical, social, political, and/or economic forces that impinge on the culture. In considering the ethnographies of homelessness we have read this semester (The Space of Boredom, More Than Bread, Needed by Nobody, With No Direction Home, Addicted. Pregnant. Poor), how well do you think each ethnography illustrated ways to understand the lives of the community consultants in a larger context? Give the reason(s) for your answers for each ethnography.
4 In the article “Promising Programs for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning Runaway and Homeless Youth” authors Kristin Ferguson and Elaine Maccio extrapolate the characteristics of the most promising programs among the 19 homeless youth organizations that they studied. What did the authors say were the most promising practices? Do you agree? How can some of the elements of the promising practices identified for LGBTQ and runaway youth be applied to other populations experiencing homelessness? What would be the barriers to implementing these best practices?