Research project
2REST Responsibilities for Resilience Embedded in Street Temporalities: Mapping street youth lived resiliences through analysis of secondary data
2REST analyses global street youth resilience using multisystemic data to inform policies and tools that improve their lives and opportunities

Active
January 2025
March 2026
2REST Responsibilities for Resilience Embedded in Street Temporalities is a two-year project analysing secondary data from Growing up on the Streets using a multisystemic resilience approach and involving international partners including early career researchers and street youth.
2REST will deliver a significant evidence base on the nature of street youth multisystemic resilience and the support required from policy and practice linked to the principles of the United Nations General Comment 21, on the Rights of Children in Street Situations (UNGC21), offering tools and applications for improving the lives and opportunities for street young people across Africa and globally and helping street youth to achieve adult lives they value.
2REST builds capacity through training and analysis, to create impactful, practical outcomes that can be used in policy development and implementation and street youth engagement.

People
Project lead(s)
Professor Lorraine van BlerkProject team
Janine HunterExternal team members
Dr Badru Bukenya, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Lucy Jamieson, School of Child and Adolescent Health, Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Linda C. Theron, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, South Africa