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Insights from young people on leaving care in albania, the czech republic, finland, and poland when-care-ends

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…

How do we promote the resilience of young people leaving care, a group identified in the international literature as among the most excluded young people in society? In exploring this question the present article will begin by defining resilience and summarising the factors associated with the resilience of young people from disadvantaged family backgrounds. This…

Review of policy and program approaches in Australia and overseas uccypf-young-people-transitiioning-from-oohc-to-adulthood

Today we face the situation that five million young people under the age of 25 cannot find a job. Many of them will miss opportunities because they lack the right qualifications or experience. Others will be forced to accept precarious positions in the labour market or short-term contracts that offer few opportunities to advance on…

Australian research indicates that young people transitioning from out-of-home care (foster, kinship, and residential) to independence have diminished life outcomes compared with those of the general population (McDowall, 2009; Mendes, Johnson, & Moslehuddin, 2011; Stein, 2012). This report aims to explore and identify the success factors that aid the transition process and to understand the…