Child Welfare and the Transition to Adulthood: Investigating Placement Status and Subsequent Arrests.

Mental Health Service Utilization for Transition Age Youth in the Child Welfare System:

Executive Summary Introduction For transition age youth in the child welfare system who are also being served by the public mental health system, the transition out of state care and into adulthood occurs during a critical developmental period. Research suggests that this developmental stage, often characterized as " emerging adulthood, " constitutes an important time period for learning adapti...

Approaching the Transition to Adulthood: Distinctive Profiles of Adolescents Aging out of the Child Welfare System.

The transition to adulthood is marked by new roles and responsibilities in such interrelated domains as education, employment, and family formation. This study investigates the capacity of adolescents on the verge of emancipation from the child welfare system to navigate this transition. To explore heterogeneity in adolescents' preparation for independent living, person-oriented methods are app...

Supporting Youth in Transition to Adulthood: Lessons Learned from Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice

Substitute care in child welfare and the risk of arrest: does the reason for placement matter?

This study sought to investigate whether the reason for placement was associated with the subsequent risk of arrest. The author has focused on youth entering care for reasons of maltreatment and for child behavioral problems. The author stratified the sample based on a history of juvenile delinquency. The sample was diverse and included youth between 8 and 16 years of age with at least one epis...

Foster youth transitions to adulthood: a longitudinal view of youth leaving care.

The well-being of youths who age out of the out-of-home care system in the U.S. has long been of great interest to child welfare practitioners and policymakers. In spite of this interest, however, very little is known about how these youths fare when they must make the transition to independence. The Foster Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study is tracking the experiences of 141 young adults who...