scholarly journals Leaving the Victorian Children’s Institution: Aftercare, Friendship and Support

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 94-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Soares
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Institutional Staff ◽  
Peripheral Position ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Performance Examining ◽  
Former Inmates

Abstract This article explores the needs of young people leaving residential care and the provision of aftercare support in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Young people’s discharge, aftercare and post-institutional experiences occupy a peripheral position in scholarship on institutional care. This essay broadens interpretations of aftercare, which have been presented as inadequate inspections that monitored employment performance. Examining the formal and informal systems that aimed to enhance care-leavers’ welfare and wellbeing, the essay offers new understandings of the ongoing provision of practical and emotional support to young people, and the importance of sustained contact and affective ties between former inmates and institutional staff.

Experiences of Young People Early in the Transition From Residential Care in Lagos State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-100
Author(s):  
Belema Sekibo
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Lagos State ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Transitional Outcomes

This article examines the aftercare experiences of young people who have recently left a residential care institution in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted a phenomenological qualitative research design with 20 care leavers, and data collected were analyzed using Attride-Stirling’s thematic networks analytical tool. The young care leavers’ aftercare experiences were marked by many challenges with employment, finances, living and surviving alone, accommodation, and social integration. These challenges were due to inadequate preparation for independent living, as well as their orphan and care backgrounds. However, care leavers were filled with resilient optimism, in terms of personal and social factors. Personal factors related to hope of a brighter future, persistence, fear of failing, and engagement in menial jobs and savings, while social factors included formal and informal support systems care leavers mobilized for improved transitional outcomes. Recommendations for policy, research, and practice are made in light of these findings.

‘I remember thinking, why isn’t there someone to help me? Why isn’t there someone who can help me make sense of what I’m going through?’

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Youth Transitions

Recent years have seen a shift away from youth transitions being understood as a linear progression towards conventional goals. Instead, it is now argued that youth transitions tend to be highly chaotic, often involving non-linear and fragmented movement between dependence and independence. This article discusses how young people leaving the state care system are seldom afforded the luxury of a more gradual and non-linear transition. Instead, for them, the possibilities of adult futures remain marked by chronic and continuing exclusion as they move abruptly into ‘instant adulthood’, with no opportunity to return to the child welfare system should they find themselves unable to make it on their own. Drawing from findings of 30 in-depth interviews with young care leavers, social workers and further and higher education institutions in the UK, the article considers the experiences of young people leaving state care, including their perceived lack of ‘care’, and the importance they place on unconditional and emotional support and contact.

scholarly journals QUALIFICAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL: PARA ALÉM DA PROFISSIONALIZAÇÃO, UMA PERSPECTIVA SOCIAL

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Francisca Rejane Bezerra Andrade ◽  
Halana Rodrigues Freire Eloy
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
The World

The purpose of this article is to discuss the implications of the professional qualification for the inclusion of young graduates of residential care in the labor market. Noteworthy is the analysis of professional qualification category, which should also be seen as social, and how this had its planning and execution affected by the metamorphoses of the world of work. Such metamorphoses also had strong repercussions in the insertion of young workers in the labor market. At this juncture will discuss the difficulties and challenges encountered by the worker and the implications of the professional qualification in that process, especially through the experiences and experiences reported by young people interviewed. The study was essentially qualitative, in his methodological approach to conducting a semi-structured interviews with young graduates and employees of the institution, a questionnaire with these young people and literature. Finally, it is stated that there are many challenges to be faced by young people who were in institutional care; these challenges involve several repercussions on the life of this young graduate, among them the inclusion of difficulties in community life and in the labor market. 

11. Care Leavers in Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-268
Author(s):  
Laura Formenti ◽  
Andrea Galimberti ◽  
Mirella Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Relative Utility ◽  
Care System

Laura Formenti, Andrea Galimberti and Mirella Ferrari use data from their study of young people leaving the residential care system on reaching adulthood. They discuss the discourses around ‘care’ before offering three different ways to present narrative accounts. Each researcher demonstrates a distinctive approach – through realism, by focusing on a facet of interest, by fictionalizing the interview in order to go beyond it. Including the stories in full enables the reader to decide their relative utility.

scholarly journals Realizing person-centred care in residential care facilities for young adults with complex and chronic disabilities: the understanding, perception and beliefs of workers

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Rissanen ◽  
Carolyn Ehrlich ◽  
Elizabeth Kendall ◽  
Heidi Muenchberger
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Residential Care Facilities ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Relationship

Young people living with complex and chronic disabilities who require assistance with health-related needs are rarely receiving the optimum support and care that will enable their full participation in society, or simply to live as they choose. For young people with complex disabling health conditions, this situation may not only be unpleasant, but may have a detrimental impact on their outcomes. In Australia, considerable attention has been paid to the relocation of people from institutional care into community settings within purpose-built apartments. However, it is the service model and the residential workers who articulate that service model into practice that are crucial to stimulate better outcomes for young people.  In this study, a qualitative design was used to identify the major ways in which residential workers understood and articulated person-centred practice for young people with complex disabilities. Data were thematically analysed using an a priori coding framework. The study identified 4 main themes relevant to person-centred practice in this setting, namely: 1) recognition of the person in time and context; 2) recognition of individuality; 3) recognition of the relationship and 4) promotion of autonomy. Importantly, the themes were connected in a broad and multi-level way through communication. The findings indicate that to enact behaviours congruent with person-centredness, residential care workers may need to reframe their professional role, image and values. However, several barriers hindered this process (i.e., system/organisational constraints, time etc.) and participants clearly needed support, education and/or mentoring to improve their capacity to apply person-centred models and also to create meaningful care partnerships.

scholarly journals Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in Young People Leaving Care in England: A Study Profiling the Language, Literacy and Communication Abilities of Young People Transitioning from Care to Independence

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4107
Author(s):  
Judy Clegg ◽  
Ellen Crawford ◽  
Sarah Spencer ◽  
Danielle Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Developmental Language Disorder ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Language Literacy ◽  
Key Staff

Research indicates children and young people in care have a high prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) as part of a complex set of vulnerabilities. This study describes the profile of language, literacy and communication abilities of a cohort of care leavers. The language, literacy and communication abilities of 44 young people leaving care between the ages of 16 and 26 years were assessed using standardized measures. Demographic data about the young people was collected along with a survey to key staff to capture their perceptions and experiences of the language and communication abilities of these young people. Ninety percent of the care leavers’ language abilities were below average and over 60% met criteria for DLD in combination with literacy difficulties, developmental disorders and social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH). The implications of unidentified DLD on the lives of young people leaving care is discussed. Earlier identification of DLD is advocated to enable services to intervene to facilitate more positive outcomes and life chances for this very vulnerable population.

What Does International Research Identify as the Best Practice Housing Pathways for Young People Transitioning from Out of Home Care?

2021 ◽  
pp. 234930032110643
Author(s):  
Jacinta Chavulak ◽  
Philip Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Transition Planning ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Extended Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Housing Pathways

Young people transitioning from out-of-home care (often called care leavers) are globally a disadvantaged group who can be particularly vulnerable to experiences of housing instability and homelessness. This article presents a scoping review of international scholarly literature pertaining to housing pathways for care leavers from 2015–2020. The 15 publications identified were analysed according to location, methodology, sample accessed, key findings regarding housing pathways and outcomes, and recommendations for policy and practice reform. Our findings suggest that good transition planning, continuing support from responsible adults, the availability of safe and affordable housing and extended care till at least 21 years should enable more positive housing transitions.

Institutional Care and Family Reintegration: The Transition Process in the Voices of Young Brazilians

2022 ◽  
pp. 234930032110156
Author(s):  
Marlene Schüssler D’Aroz
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Clinical Method ◽  
Family Reintegration ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Independent Life ◽  
Life Trajectory

This article aims to present reflections on the transition from being institutionalised to autonomous life, from the perspective of deinstitutionalised young Brazilians. Five young adults participated in the pilot study. The Piagetian clinical method was used. Through semi-structured interviews, the following were investigated: causes of institutionalisation, preparation for transition, deinstitutionalisation and perspectives of present and future life. The results indicate that there was no effective preparation for transition from the institution to the family and/or independent life. Biological families have difficulties in achieving (re) integration and overcoming conflicts between parents and children. In conclusion, when leaving institutions, some young people manage to build their own arrangements for a new life trajectory, while others return to contexts of risk and life on the street. Public policies to assist these young people should be prioritised.

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