Factors Affecting Educational and Vocational Plans of Foster Care Charges

Marzena Ruszkowska & Józefa Matejek - Society. Integration. Education. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference

In this study, the authors analyzed the literature on foster care in Poland and conducted a narrative questionnaire with an educator who simultaneously holds the responsibility for teaching youth in foster care autonomy in order to identify factors that affect educational and vocational plans that foster care charges have.

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Youth of Color in Care: Intersecting Identities and Vulnerabilities

Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Judith C. Scott, Jessica A. K. Matthews - Handbook of Children and Prejudice

Drawing on the extant literature, this chapter will present a multileveled discussion of the experiences of prejudice and bias foster youth face, with a focus on the systemic inequities among diverse youth in foster care, the individual challenges youth with different social identities face, socialization processes that can support these youth, and challenges foster parents face in supporting foster youths’ healthy identity development.

Effects of individual risk and state housing factors on adverse outcomes in a national sample of youth transitioning out of foster care

Dana M. Prince, Sarah Vidal, Nathanael Okpych, Christian M. Connell - Journal of Adolescence

This study estimated the impact of state and individual-level risk and protective factors on adverse 19-year-old outcomes among a cohort of U.S. transition age youth.

The Perceptions of Australian Workers about Caring for Sexually Exploited Children in Residential Care

Gemma McKibbin & Cathy Humphreys - Child Abuse Review

As part of a broader action research project aiming to prevent both harmful sexual behaviour carried out by children and young people and child sexual exploitation (CSE) in out‐of‐home care, four focus groups were undertaken with 17 workers at three Victorian residential houses in 2017.

Transitions Out of Care

Jacob P. Gross - Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education

This chapter from Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education focuses on the transition point when youth begin to age out of care and may move into postsecondary education.