Predictors of Care Leavers’ Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review

Luke Power, Mark Hardy

This systematic review contained studies that were mostly based in the U.S. and had three primary research aims: (1) to identify the key predictors of care leavers’ health; (2) to understand how determinants of health are conceptualised within the literature; and (3) to understand what methods and data sources are used to understand the health outcomes of care leavers.

Inclusion of Children and Youth in Foster Families: Aims, Challenges and Solutions

Mari Rysst

This chapter in the book "Child Welfare and the Value of Family Privacy" addresses aims and challenges in the processes of including children and youth in foster families and suggests a solution inspired by anthropological literature. The author argues that the ‘best interests of the child’ are closely tied to staying in a stable foster home, which emerged in interviews with children in the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWS) and foster parents.

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Coming of Age in a Pandemic Era: The Interdependence of Life Spheres Through the Lens of Social Integration of Care Leavers in Quebec During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Victor Fernandes, Anta Niang, Rosita Vargas Diaz, Martin Goyette

This paper explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected care leavers in Quebec, a social group already facing obstacles to social integration.

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Should Foster Care Replace the Family? Child Welfare and the Value of Family Privacy

Eirik Christopher Gundersen

In this chapter in the book "Child Welfare and the Value of Family Privacy", the author discusses moderate alternatives to address problems of the family by enhancing the presence of state agencies in family life. The author asks if organising families as foster homes is less morally objectionable than raising children in families by examining the child welfare system in Norway.

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Parents Who Inject Drugs: Demographics, Care Arrangements and Correlates for Child Placement in Out-of-Home Care

Jocelyn Chan, Bernadette Ward, Lisa Maher, Sione Crawford, Mark Stoové, Paul Dietze

Children in families affected by substance use disorders are at high risk of being placed in out-of-home care (OOHC). The authors of this Australia-based study aimed to describe the characteristics of parents who inject drugs and identify correlates associated with child placement in OOHC.

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Foster Carers’ Views of the Transition from Foster Care to Adulthood for Young People with Mental Health Problems from a Life-Course Perspective

Ingrid Höjer, Inger Oterholm

This article aims to build knowledge, from a life-course perspective, of foster carers’ views of the transition from care to adulthood for young people with mental health problems by interviewing carers from foster homes in Norway and Sweden.

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