title: [Taking care of outreach workers who intervene with marginal youths : Part       2].
abstract: Outreach work with youths in a precarious situation raises emotions and questions in       workers while confronting them with their own suffering and fragility. In order to help them       help as well as counter the risk of vicarious traumatisation, spaces for talking and       exchanging with a third party have been created in various intervention settings. The       objective is to allow them to elaborate on what their work makes them feel and thus preserve       their stability and their ability to think. Through group or individual clinical discussions,       these exchanges favor distancing and allow new perspectives on their work. That is why peer       support appeared as an essential element for psychologists and therapists who support not only       youths but the workers who help them. The setting up of our outreach meetings-a result of our       observation, allows keeping the flame alive without risking being burned. In this article, the       issue of marginality in professionals working with homeless youths-as well as our own-is       raised. It sometimes translates in the absence of a fixed location for a meeting symbolizing       traditional stability, sometimes in the necessary flexibility of a framework to reach this       population, sometimes in the openness to otherness and more precisely to a difference that       disturbs when anxiety that this disaffiliated being raises, could well be our very self! Is it       really marginality or a particular positioning aiming at constructive denunciation of       stigmatization, unjust exclusion that youths with mental health and addiction problems sustain       that place them at risk of homelessness? Neither missionaries, nor saviors are needed, but       only hopeful facilitators working alongside people who want to stand up and take their place       in society.
authors.affiliation: Dans la rue.
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aubin
authors.forename: Amal
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abdel-Baki
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baret
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cadieux
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Glaize
authors.forename: Terri
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lafortune
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Létourneau
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Monast
authors.forename: Candice
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tiberghien
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health