Inside the Diverse Transitions to Adulthood

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Keyword(s):  
Transitions To Adulthood

Overview of a Pilot Health-focused Reentry Program for Racial/Ethnic Minority Probationers ages 18 to 26 in Southern California

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110137
Author(s):  
Victoria D. Ojeda ◽  
Emily Berliant ◽  
Tamara Parker ◽  
Maurice Lyles ◽  
Todd M. Edwards ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Nutrition Assistance ◽  
Racial Ethnic

There is a significant gap in reentry programming that is tailored to the needs of young adults ages 18 to 26 who are in a unique developmental life stage that involves ongoing maturity in their neurobiology, cognitive development, and social and financial transitions to adulthood and independence. This article describes the structure and approach of a 6-month health-focused reentry program designed for racial/ethnic minority young adult (YA) probationers in Southern California. The UCSD RELINK program includes service navigation and an optional psychoeducation health coaching program to build health literacy, problem-solving, and executive functioning skills relevant across multiple life domains. We describe participant characteristics and service needs at intake. Between 2017 and 2019, 122 YA probationers ages 18 to 26 responded to interviewer-administered baseline surveys. Participants needed basic services including housing, nutrition assistance, employment, and educational/vocational training. Depression and anxiety symptoms, Adverse Childhood Events, trauma, and unmet physical and mental health care needs were pervasive. Given the dearth of research on reentry programming for YA, this article documents the approaches taken in this multi-pronged health-focused reentry program to ensure that the program was tailored to YA reentrants’ comprehensive needs. These data serve to concretely illustrate the range of needs and how YA reentrants view their own health and social needs in the context of multiple competing demands; such data may be useful for program planners and policymakers seeking to advance service delivery for YA minority reentrants.

Youth Studies, Housing Transitions and the ‘Missing Middle’: Time for a Rethink?

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Lack Of Fit ◽  
Youth Research ◽  
Communal Living ◽  
Missing Middle ◽  
Determining Factor

A recent but growing trend in studies of young people's lives has been to highlight that there is a ‘missing middle’ in the youth studies research agenda. It has been argued that much youth research focuses on either successful or very troubled transitions to adulthood, with the lives of those who might simply be ‘getting by’ representing an empirical absence. Building on previous work that has addressed how such a missing middle can add to our understanding of educational experience and attainment, labour market engagement and participation, and issues of identity, this paper pays attention to the housing transitions, careers and aspirations of a group of ‘ordinary’ and apparently unproblematic working class young men. Because they do not represent groups that have been of especial interest in youth studies to date, their experiences problematize the on-going utility of dominant conceptual frameworks used to explain housing transitions. In addition to their ‘lack of fit’ with ideal type typologies, the young men also reveal the shifting nature of attitudes towards communal living ‘which is traditionally associated with middle class students’ in combination with the continuing role of social resources as a determining factor in their housing transition.

Mid-Life Parental Support for Adult Children in New Zealand

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hillcoat-Nallétamby ◽  
A. Dharmalingam
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Mature Adult ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Ageing Parents

Research often focuses on exchanges of help between mature adult children and ageing parents, but not between young adults and parents. As transitions to adulthood become more complex, and mid-life is increasingly associated with competing roles, this article examines factors influencing the likelihood that a mid-life parent continues to support an adult child who has left home. Empirical analysis uses data from New Zealand's 1997 `Transactions in the Mid-life Family' survey. Parents continue to support their child, but the factors influencing the flow of help vary by type of help. A child's, but not a parent's age, and the gender of both, have a significant influence on the provision of help, and although infrequent contact and long distances make exchanges more difficult, they do not completely inhibit them.

‘I Am Doing a Double Thing. It Is For Me and It Is For Her’

Young ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Dimitri Selimos
Keyword(s):  
General Situation ◽  
New Host ◽  
Refugee Youth ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Migration Narratives ◽  
Future Selves ◽  
Intergenerational Links ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

This article draws on 30 interviews conducted with newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in Canada to explore how they make sense of their migration and the consequences these meanings have on how they imagine their future selves. The article is based on the understanding that a key task of any immigrant is to negotiate the experiences of continuity and change indicative of the migration experience—a task that takes on unique contours for young immigrants who are simultaneously negotiating their transitions to adulthood. Analysis of the migration narratives of newcomer youth demonstrates that in making sense of their migration, young migrants draw on the general situation of their country of descent, their experiences of emigration and poignant intergenerational links to construct meaning of their lives in their new country of residence. These meanings orient their social actions and animate their life projects in their new host society.

scholarly journals Transitions to adulthood among young entrepreneurs in the informal mobile telephony sector in Accra, Ghana

Geoforum ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 290-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Afutu-Kotey ◽  
Katherine V. Gough ◽  
Paul W.K. Yankson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Young Entrepreneurs

scholarly journals Transitions to adulthood in flux. Assessing coming of age through an historical lens in Finland and France

Sociologija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-185
Author(s):  
Aurelie Mary
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post War

According to youth experts, a significant number of contemporary young people in Western societies reach adulthood at a later age than previous generations. This phenomenon is generally perceived as a temporary misstep on the path to default patterns of transition established in the 1950s and 1960s. Given the current societal context, should the transition to adulthood today really conform to that model? This paper provides an historical analysis of transitions to adulthood to enquire whether the post-war model can still be considered a meaningful reference today. Were routes of transition similar or different in earlier times, or has the model always existed? To answer this question, the paper looks at demographics in two case countries, Finland and France, in three periods: the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the 1950s-1970s, and the early twenty-first century. The paper argues that the post-war generation?s rapid patterns of transition w ere unique, resulting from a sustained period of economic growth in developed societies. This has generated new pathways of transition and a model of adulthood still used as a standard point today, even though the current socio-economic context has changed. Transitions to adulthood are not static. They have always evolved, mirroring the wider historical context within which individuals operate.

scholarly journals How to Talk about Mental Health: Addressing Misunderstandings about Mental Health in the Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Golden ◽  
Joel Danforth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
The Media

This tip sheet was developed as a collaboration between the Massachusetts Statewide Youth Advisory Council (SYAC) and the Learning and Working Center at the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research (TACR) to clear up some common misunderstandings about mental health conditions and to share strategies to talk about mental health in a more accurate and more helpful way! Read on to learn more about mental health.

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