Former Foster Youth
Barriers to Post-Secondary Enrollment for Former Foster Youth
... Former foster youth do not have family resources like their college ...in foster care to not enroll in college (Wolanin, ...cause foster youth to believe they just cannot afford ...
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Laboratory-Diagnosed Sexually Transmitted Infections in Former Foster Youth Compared With Peers
... of youth currently in foster care rather than those with retrospec- tive reports of foster care ...in foster care and may be at the root of this increased STI risk and to evaluate race as a ...
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Supporting Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care - Education Programs
... target youth in foster ...of Foster Youth Programs, the research team is not aware of any education-focused programs targeting youth in foster care that have been subjected to a ...
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Health Outcomes in Young Adults From Foster Care and Economically Diverse Backgrounds
... these youth receive (and lack), the con- tinuity and quality of provider relation- ships they experience, and the degree to which they receive evidence-based care for chronic medical conditions during adolescence ...
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Examining the Help Seeking Experiences of Youth in Extended Care: A Narrative Ethnography Study
... including foster youth, and recognize there are significant unmet student needs including lack of academic preparedness, lack of mental health services, and difficulties securing financial ...especially ...
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Supporting Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care - Employment Programs
... from former youth in foster care at different ages present equally concerning employment ...of Former Foster Youth (Midwest Study) finds that youth previously in ...
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Development and piloting of a treatment foster care program for older youth with psychiatric problems
... taining youth in community settings (out of locked settings), changes in youths’ mental health symptoms over the course of the study, and progress on functional indicators such as employment and school ...
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RCT of a Mentoring and Skills Group Program: Placement and Permanency Outcomes for Foster Youth
... The study recruited 91% of all eligible children in participating counties, and only 1 participant was lost at follow-up. The study was not, however, without limitations. As stated earlier, because each of the placement ...
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Perspectives on Informed Consent Practices for Minimal-Risk Research Involving Foster Youth
... for foster youth participation in research, with appropriate safeguards on a local, state, and national ...exclude foster youth to simplify recruitment and ...for foster youth by ...
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Vulnerable Youth and the COVID-19 Pandemic
... (including youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and/or questioning [LGBTQ]; homeless; maltreated; in foster care; and struggling with substance use disorders) warrant particular ...
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A Phenomenological Study of Youth Experiences in Residential Foster Care and their Recommendations for Change
... Seven is a twenty-three year old African American woman. Although she described herself as “socially awkward,” laughing periodically during the interview, it was quite pleasant to visit with her. One of nine children, ...
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Impact Of The Future Project On Student Motivation: Meeting Basic Psychological Needs To Improve Academic Dispositions
... positive youth development is to support youth thriving as an investment in their long-term well-being, only one article reviewed in this chapter tracked youth into adulthood (Sulimani-Aiden, ...
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The Role of Former Combatants in Preventing Youth Involvement in Terrorism in Northern Ireland: A Framework for Assessing Former Islamic State Combatants
... of former combatants and the older generation. Indeed, the former combatants began to recognise that what was a means to de-legitimise violence in the current context was having the opposite effect, thus ...
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The effect of foster care experience and characterisitcs on academic achievement
... EOC testing is mandatory for all North Carolina youth in public schools. Student EOC scores are used in the computation of school growth and performance composites mandated by the state’s ABC’s Education ...
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Health Care Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care and Kinship Care
... in foster care love and worry about their birth parents, even if they feel safer in foster care, and they also love and care about their foster and kinship ...
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House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number CBP08249, 26 October 2018: Support for care leavers
... In terms of drawing up a “Pathway plan”, the DfE notes that: The 1989 [Children] Act [as amended] requires that a pathway plan must be prepared for all eligible children and continued for all relevant and former ...
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Moving on from Care : The Need for, and Purpose of, Mentoring and Coaching Relationships with Supportive Adults: An Annotated Bibliography
... compulsory supervision order, but without a requirement to be placed in a particular setting (such as kinship care, foster care, residential care, etc). This type of legal supervision order is unique to the ...
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"Home is always home" : (former) street youth in Blantyre, Malawi, and the fluidity of constructing home
... Street youth who attempt to construct their home on the streets are challenged while doing so and the same holds for (former) street youth who, after their stay at Samaritan, attempt to construct ...
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"Home is always home". (Former) Street Youth in Blantyre, Malawi, and the Fluidity of Constructing Home
... Towards the end of his book Bauman, in quoting Maffesoli, states that ‘the world we all inhabit nowadays is a ‘floating territory’ in which ‘fragile individuals’ meet ‘porous reality’’ (2012 [2000]: 209, emphasis in ...
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The politics of exclusion: Engaging the voices of systems youths.
... momentarily, calls for former systems youths to help in any way that we can so we can bring attention to the plight of systems youths. I was extremely lucky as I experienced only two placements, both in family ...
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