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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Philip Mendes, Bernadette Saunders, Susan Baidawi - International Indigenous Policy Journal,

This article investigates the current leaving care and post-care supports that are available to Indigenous care leavers in Australia.  

Priya Anaokar, Kathi-Ann Thomas, Joan Thomas, Ceceile Minott, Marva Campbell and Julie Meeks Gardner - Global Perspectives,

This chapter from the book Global Perspectives discusses the challenges young people in Jamaica face as they age out of care.  The researchers review three Jamaican studies, which highlight challenges for young people, service providers and policy makers.  The reviews found that while there are state mechanisms in place, more needs to be done to ensure these mechanisms are followed.

Miguel Melendro Estefanía - El Centro Reina Sofía sobre Adolescencia y Juventud y la FAD,

La presente investigación trata de los jóvenes sin tiempo y cómo trabajar, con ellos y ellas, en un tránsito inclusivo a la vida adulta, especialmente jóvenes que han pasado una parte importante de sus vidas en recursos residenciales del sistema de protección y que cuando son mayores de edad deben dejarlos para salir a la vida adulta, en un tránsito cargado de complejidades.

Monica Campo and Joanne Commerford - Child Family Community Australia information exchange, Australian Institute of Family Studies,

This paper examines international and Australian literature to identify the key areas of support that may help young people to successfully transition from care.

Anita Schrader-McMillan; Elsa Herrera - Journal of Children's Services; Vol. 11 Iss: 3,

This is a 15 month qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with families and boys at three stages: preparing for return, in the first three months of reintegration and successfully reintegrated.

Gayle Rice - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care ,

Due to the high instances of young people in care becoming homeless after leaving care, this study explored how an intervention could be co-designed to support young people and leaving care workers (LCWs) to share and elicit views about where a young person could live when they leave care.

Fostering Change,

This series of reports offers important new insights into the economic consequences and issues for youth aging out of care in British Columbia, Canada.

Marvin Shaffer, Lynell Anderson, Allison Nelson - Fostering Change,

The purpose of this phase 1 report is to document what is known about the resulting educational attainment, economic, social and wellness outcomes for youth aging out of care as compared to the general population in British Columbia, Canada.

Mooly M. Wong - The Open Family Studies Journal,

This study revealed, through their narrations, the changes in the lived experiences of children who resided in residential childcare services regarding the going home process in a Chinese context. 

Rawan W. Ibrahim - Global Perspectives,

This study is a retrospective discussion of the experiences faced by young Jordanian adults who grew up in residential care before entering adult life.  These young adults use their life experiences to demonstrate the challenges that people exiting residential care face. Per this chapter, post-care experience is influenced by in-care experience.