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Publications

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Academic Publication

Preventing the Root Causes of Youth Homelessness Through Cultural and Critical Pedagogies

Peer-reviewed article framing schools as sites of harm and potential, emphasizing upstream prevention, institutional misrecognition, lived experience as knowledge, and teacher education.

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Battista, A. (2026). Preventing the root causes of youth homelessness through cultural and critical pedagogies: An autoethnographic qualitative study of Quebec schools and institutions informed by lived and professional experience. International Journal on Homelessness, 6(2), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5206/ijoh.2026.2.22959
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Graduate Thesis

Youth homelessness prevention through education: reimagining Quebec’s education system as a tool for youth homelessness prevention

Graduate thesis exploring youth homelessness prevention through Quebec education policy, autoethnographic research, case studies, and critical pedagogy.

APA 7
Battista, A. (2025). Youth homelessness prevention through education: Reimagining Quebec’s education system as a tool for youth homelessness prevention [Graduate thesis, McGill University]. eScholarship@McGill.
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Policy Work

Prevention Without School-Based Infrastructure: A Critical Autoethnographic Policy Analysis of Quebec's Interministerial Plan to End Homelessness and Educational Policy

Forthcoming policy work analyzing Quebec’s interministerial plan to end homelessness and the role of school-based prevention.

APA 7
Battista, A. (forthcoming). Prevention without school-based infrastructure: A critical autoethnographic policy analysis of Quebec's interministerial plan to end homelessness and educational policy.
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Children's Book Series

The Everyone Deserves a Home Series

A public education children's book series beginning with a first release on housing, dignity, belonging, and the idea that everyone deserves a home.

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Battista, A. (2026). The Everyone Deserves a Home series [Children's book series]. Amazon.
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Research

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