Young people transitioning from out-of-home care to adulthood
Review of policy and program approaches in Australia and overseas
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Hace 25 años el mundo concibió un compromiso con todos sus niños, niñas y adolescentes: que los Estados, las comunidades y las familias haríamos todo lo que estuviera a nuestro alcance para promover y proteger sus derechos. La Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño plasma un consenso entre los diferentes sistemas jurídicos y las diversas… -
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Young people in care and care leavers want to know that their corporate parents (the local authority, collectively with other relevant services) will care for them and do their best for them. In this, one of the largest peer research studies, we report if, and how, this is being achieved. Our research provides an update… -
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The purpose of this research is to characterise the internal conversations of individual young people in transition from state care, with a goal of supporting practitioners’ approaches to ‘pathway planning’, and contributing to theories of agency in emerging adulthood under conditions of long-term adversity. We used Margaret Archer’s theory of agency, in which internal conversations…
