Issue 2 / 2010

Cover article

This is issue is devoted to the Conference Care Matters: Transforming Lives – Improving Outcomes Conference, incorporating the 8^th International Looking After Children Conference (7-9 July 2008, Keble College, Oxford UK)

Content

Leaving state residential Care in Bucharest: what supports and hinders the transition

authors: Roxana Anghel

keywords: leaving care, early outcomes, preparation

Aftercare in a Norwegian context

authors: Elisabeth Backe-Hansen

keywords: services, outcomes, aftercare

Formative and Summative Evaluation of a Program to Facilitate Transition from Care in Israel

authors: Rami Benbenishty, Anat Zeira, and Alexandra Magnus

keywords: israel, leaving care

Improving transitions to adulthood of young people leaving care in Romania

authors: Gabriela Dima, Dr. Caroline Skehill

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Transition to adulthood for young Swedish care leavers

authors: Ingrid Höjer and Yvonne Sjöblom

keywords: care leavers, welfare model, family, support

Transitioning out of residential care in Jordan: pathways and outcomes. Emerging findings and recommendations from a doctoral research study in progress

authors: Rawan W. Ibrahim. Supervisors: Dr. Jonathan Dickens, Prof. David Howe

keywords: Stigma, Jordan, care leavers

Pregnant pathways

authors: Bruce Leslie

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Identity exploration in emerging adulthood: how does it apply to at-risk youths?

authors: Julie Marcotte

keywords: adjustment, services

State care as a pathway to homelessness: implications for the transition to adulthood

authors: Paula Mayock and Nicola Carr

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A structural analysis of young people leaving state care in Victoria, Australia

authors: Philip Mendes and Badal Moslehuddin

keywords: affirmative action, leaving care, structural disadvantage

Transition to adulthood: the Equip program

authors: Véronique Noël, Martin Goyette, Marie-Noële Royer and Geneviève Chénier

keywords: adulthood, transition

How do the child welfare services in Norway work with young people leaving care?

authors: Inger Oterholm

keywords: leaving care, child welfare

Building a future together: issues and outcomes for transition aged youth

authors: Carrie Reid and Peter Dudding

keywords: youth transitions, child welfare

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": the self-reliant identity as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of foster care

authors: Gina Miranda Samuels

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New transitions to employment – a biographical approach to forms of cooperation between rearing support services and employment promotion agents

authors: Wolfgang Schröer, . Stefan Köngeter, Maren Zeller

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Islington Career Start: how Islington’s employment scheme has improved the transitions to adulthood for looked after young people and care leavers

authors: Nikki Smith

keywords: progression, economic wellbeing

The transition to adulthood for young people leaving public care: international comparisons and perspectives

authors: Mike Stein and Emily R. Munro

keywords: comparative research, transitions, young people

Exit from care - developing a perspective

authors: Jan Storø

keywords: young people, construction, leaving care, transition

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