Leaving Alternative Care and Reintegration

It is important to support children who are preparing to leave care.  This includes helping young people as they ‘age out’ of the care system and transition to independent living, as well as children planning to return home and reintegrate with their families.  In either case, leaving care should be a gradual and supervised process that involves careful preparation and follow-up support to children and families.

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Heike Drotbohm - Ethnography,

This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other.

Adrian D. van Breda - Children Australia,

This paper serves to illustrate challenges in research on care-leavers and the various ways that research results can be interpreted by drawing on data from a study being conducted in a residential care programme in South Africa.

Amanda Nurcombe‐Thorne, Varoshini Nadesan, Adrian DuPlessis van Breda - Child & Family Social Work,

This article examines the care experiences of former looked‐after children from a residential care setting in South Africa.

Lisa Schelbe - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study used ethnographic data to examine a program providing subsidized apartments to youth aging out.

Transform Alliance Africa,

This video features interviews and presentations from a seminar that took place in Nairobi, Kenya in March 2018 which brought together orphanage directors to discuss the importance of children growing up in safe and loving families and the need to transition models of care.

Rebecca Rebbe, Paula S. Nurius, PhD, Mark E. Courtney, Kym R. Ahrens - Academic Pediatrics,

This paper uses person-centered latent class analysis (LCA) methods to examine the relationship between different profiles of ACE exposures and divergent health trajectories amongst this high-risk population.

Denise Healy - CARL,

This is a small-scale study examining the experiences of Aged-Out Unaccompanied Minors (UAMs) who transition from foster care into Direct Provision (DP) in Ireland.

Yafit Sulimani-Aidan - Children and Youth Services Review,

The goal of this study was to explore the assets and pathways in pursuing the future goals of 25 care leavers in Israel.

Rita Gradaille, Carme Montserrat, Lluís Ballester - Children and Youth Services Review,

The goal of the article is to analyze the characteristics and experiences of youths when they leave care and their first years in transition from foster care to adulthood.

Jan P. Basiaga, Anna Róg, Beata Zięba‐Kołodziej - Child & Family Social Work,

This study examined the extent to which professional foster families fulfil their tasks to reintegrate families, what attitudes professional foster families assume towards the idea of reintegration, and to what extent and how professional foster families support a child separated from his or her family and parents in the process of reintegration.