Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care International Resea
This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and prac
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Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care International Research, Policy and Practice
Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care
Philip Mendes • Pamela Snow Editors
Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care International Research, Policy and Practice
Editors Philip Mendes Monash University Victoria, Australia
Pamela Snow Rural Health School La Trobe University Bendigo, Australia
ISBN 978-1-137-55638-7 ISBN 978-1-137-55639-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55639-4
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Foreword
This book makes an important contribution to one of the most significant challenges facing all those responsible for child welfare—how to improve the lives of young people moving on from care. A body of international research has shown that outcomes for children living in care are poor in comparison to those of other children, and this often casts a long shadow on their adult lives. Those making the journey from care to adulthood have more accelerated and compressed transitions than their peers, and are more likely to be disadvantaged in respect to their main pathways to adulthood: education, training and employment, accommodation and health and well-being. It was these findings, which, in 2003, led to the setting up of the International Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC), bringing together, for the first time, researchers from Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Canada and the USA. This resulted in an initial mapping exer
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