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Total Pages : 98 pages
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Download or read book Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annika Olson
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Total Pages : 86 pages
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Download or read book The Impact of Independent Living Services on Education and Employment for Youth Aging-Out of Foster Care written by Annika Olson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For youth aging-out of foster care, independent living services may serve as a useful tool in preparing them for future social, physical, and economic success. The current study aims to understand which independent living services provided to youth in foster care are associated with their educational and employment outcomes at age 19. Using the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD), this study will attempt to understand how both the specific type of service, as well as the number of services youths receive, act as predictors of educational attainment and employment. This information would be helpful in identifying how independent living services are impacting the future success of foster youth in regard to academics and employment.
Download or read book Coming of Age written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Brianna Farina
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ISBN 13 : 9781085630153
Total Pages : 86 pages
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Download or read book Fostering Employment: An Evaluation of AB 12 and Its Effectiveness in Improving the Employment Outcomes of Foster Youth Exiting Care written by Katherine Brianna Farina and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to adulthood can be daunting, particularly for youth exiting the foster care system. Foster youth face unique challenges in this transition and have been found to experience negative outcomes across a variety of domains, especially employment. A key piece of legislation in California, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, also known as AB 12 or Extended Foster Care (EFC), was enacted to improve the outcomes of foster youth by extending foster care until age 21. The current study evaluated AB 12's effectiveness in improving employment outcomes for foster youth exiting care in California. This study conducted a policy analysis of the AB 12 legislation and examined data from the California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) regarding employment outcomes. The study investigated trends in employment rates of foster youth exiting care. The results indicated that employment rates of foster youth exiting care have increased, particularly following the enactment of AB 12. However, youth exiting foster care at a younger age (18 or 19) had lower employment rates. Also, the receipt of Independent Living Program (ILP) services was associated with higher rates of employment for foster youth exiting care. The important conclusion of this study was that AB 12 had a favorable impact on the employment rates of foster youth exiting care.
Author : Sixto Cancel
Publisher : Think of Us
ISBN 13 : 0578288001
Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book Aged Out: How We're Failing Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care written by Sixto Cancel and published by Think of Us. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country, far too many young people age out of foster care into appalling circumstances. “Aging out” occurs when youth under the state’s custody are still in the foster care system when they reach either the age of majority or the end of extended foster care. Aging out refers to the moment in time when child welfare is no longer legally responsible for the youth, and the system abruptly stops providing services–usually when the youth turns either 18 or 21. Each year, thousands of youth age out of foster care, essentially legal orphans with no legal connection to family or a supportive network. Unfortunately, foster youth who go through the experience of aging out of foster care have statistically poor life prospects. Longitudinal studies across the country show very high rates of homelessness, incarceration, unemployment, and lack of access to health care among youth who aged out of foster care. These outcomes are disproportionately worse for Black, Native, and Brown youth, as well as queer and trans youth. This study is designed to understand the experiences of transition-age youth in their transition out of foster care and investigate: Why do poor outcomes for youth who age out of care persist? What are the current lived experiences of youth who age out of care? In what ways does child welfare continue to fall short for youth who age out of care?
Author : Chun Liu (Ph. D.)
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Total Pages : 190 pages
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Download or read book Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Successful Independent Living Outcomes in a National Sample of Youth Aging Out of Foster Care written by Chun Liu (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a crucial period in a young person’s life. Youth aging out of foster care normally face multiple disadvantages in terms of educational attainment, employment outcomes, housing, financial stability, and life skills compared with their peers in the general population. To overcome these challenges, the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP) was established; it assists youth in making the transition from foster care to self-sufficiency by providing funding to states. This study aims to examine the risk and protective factors contributing to independent living outcomes using a national sample of youth aging out of the foster care system. By merging the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) datasets, this study provides an overview of independent living outcomes of youth aging out of foster care. By utilizing a growth curve modeling method, this study suggests there is a high prevalence of negative outcomes among this population as they transition from adolescence to adulthood. It shows that several risk factors are associated with key domains of independent living outcomes, including placement stability, current placement setting, and previous adverse experience. Having a connection between 17 and 21 with an adult and remaining in foster care after 18 are both substantial protective factors of successful life outcomes. The findings of this study also have implications for policy and practice. Policymakers and practitioners should work together to develop evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions that better help this vulnerable population, with an emphasis on achieving relational permanency. Future Independent Living Programs should be tailored to meet the specific needs of youth in foster care, and child welfare workers should be aware of the risks and protective factors that impact youth development
Author : Cheryl Stankiewicz Davis
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ISBN 13 : 9781124906850
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Download or read book What are They Doing Now written by Cheryl Stankiewicz Davis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior research has consistently demonstrated that foster youth emancipated from care experienced tremendous challenges and poor outcomes in their transition to adulthood and independent living. Using administrative data from the child welfare, unemployment insurance, and public welfare information systems, this study examined whether youth who emancipated from care in Sacramento County, CA in 2006 and participated in federally legislated enhanced supportive services had better outcomes at age 22 than those emancipated youth who did not receive those services. Consistent with previous research, many of the emancipated foster youth in this study experienced poor employment outcomes on several measures. At age 22, the former foster youth followed four patterns for sources of income: no income, relying on public assistance solely, combining work and public assistance to make ends meet, and working. While this study joins previous research in finding no relationship between Independent Living Program and employment development services with employment outcomes, the findings do appear to follow new emerging research showing the importance of permanency in family relationships as a predictor of post-foster care outcomes (Avery, 2010). Securing more permanent and stable placement with relatives is associated with greater connection to the workforce and higher wages, which in turn, should help these young persons more successfully transition to adulthood.
Author : D. Wayne Osgood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226637859
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Your Own without a Net written by D. Wayne Osgood and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade after high school, young people continue to rely on their families in many ways-sometimes for financial support, sometimes for help with childcare, and sometimes for continued shelter. But what about those young people who confront special difficulties during this period, many of whom can count on little help from their families? On Your Own Without a Net documents the special challenges facing seven vulnerable populations during the transition to adulthood: former foster care youth, youth formerly involved in the juvenile justice system, youth in the criminal justice system, runaway and homeless youth, former special education students, young people in the mental health system, and youth with physical disabilities. During adolescence, government programs have been a major part of their lives, yet eligibility for most programs typically ends between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one. This critical volume shows the unfortunate repercussions of this termination of support and points out the issues that must be addressed to improve these young people's chances of becoming successful adults.
Author : Tom Hilliard
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fostering Careers written by Tom Hilliard and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City has never been a particularly easy place for teenagers and young adults to break into the workforce. Even during the boom years of the 2000s, the city's unemployment rate for teens between the ages of 16 and 19 hovered just under 20 percent. By the end of 2010, it had risen to 40 percent. As shocking as these numbers are, however, young people aging out of the city's foster care system appear to be faring even worse. Based on dozens of interviews with child welfare practitioners across the five boroughs, it is estimated that no more than half of the young people who have recently left the foster care system have jobs at any given time. With nearly 1,000 foster youth aging out of the system every year, that means that close to 500 young people each year are failing to connect with the world of work. This report shows that not enough is being done to help foster youth connect to jobs and careers. While there is a lot that is right with the child welfare system today, neither the city agencies that oversee the child welfare system nor the private foster care agencies that provide direct services to foster youth are adequately equipped to help young people who are aging out of the system to succeed as adults. And the greatest shortcomings are with assisting foster youth to prepare for the workforce. This study takes an in-depth look at the challenges foster youth have in getting and keeping jobs as adults and examines what the various players in the city's foster care and workforce development systems are--and aren't--doing to help young people transition from foster care into adulthood. It offers a range of recommendations on what could be done to improve employment and educational outcomes of young people aging out of the system. (Contains 2 tables, 8 charts, and 35 endnotes.) [Additional funding was provided by the Child Welfare Fund.].
Author : Richard A. Settersten Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226748928
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book On the Frontier of Adulthood written by Richard A. Settersten Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Frontier of Adulthood reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development. Pathways into and through adulthood have become much less linear and predictable, and these changes carry tremendous social and cultural significance, especially as institutions and policies aimed at supporting young adults have not kept pace with these changes. This volume considers the nature and consequences of changes in early adulthood by drawing upon a wide variety of historical and contemporary data from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Especially dramatic shifts have occurred in the conventional markers of adulthood—leaving home, finishing school, getting a job, getting married, and having children—and in how these experiences are configured as a set. These accounts reveal how the process of becoming an adult has changed over the past century, the challenges faced by young people today, and what societies can do to smooth the transition to adulthood. "This book is the most thorough, wide-reaching, and insightful analysis of the new life stage of early adulthood."—Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University "From West to East, young people today enter adulthood in widely diverse ways that affect their life chances. This book provides a rich portrait of this journey-an essential font of knowledge for all who care about the younger generation."—Glen H. Elder Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "On the Frontier of Adulthood adds considerably to our knowledge about the transition from adolescence to adulthood. . . . It will indeed be the definitive resource for researchers for years to come. Anyone working in the area—whether in demography, sociology, economics, or developmental psychology—will wish to make use of what is gathered here."—John Modell, Brown University "This is a must-read for scholars and policymakers who are concerned with the future of today's youth and will become a touchpoint for an emerging field of inquiry focused on adult transitions."—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University
