Young People Transitioning from Out-Of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice

Foreword; Mike Stein.- Introduction; Philip Mendes and Pamela Snow.- Part I. Particularly vulnerable groups of care leavers. - Chapter 1. The Double-Bind - Looked After Children and Youth Justice; Nicola Carr and Siobhan McAlister.- Chapter 2. Young People Transitioning from Out-of-home Care in Victoria, Australia: Strengthening Support Services for Dual Clients of Child Protection and Youth Justice; Philip Mendes, Pamela C. Snow and Susan Baidawi.- Chapter 3. Supporting young people with an intellectual disability transitioning from out-of-home care to adult life in Queensland, Australia; Sarah McDonald, Kathleen Ellem and Jill Wilson.- Chapter 4. A comparison of young people with a disability transitioning from out-of-home care in Australia and Northern Ireland; Pamela C. Snow, Berni Kelly, Philip Mendes and Delia O'Donohue.- Part II. Pathways to Educational Success.- Chapter 5. Comparisons of policy and practice assisting care leavers into higher education in different jurisdictions/countries, and the role of international benchmarking; Andrew Harvey, Patricia McNamara and Lisa Andrewartha.- Chapter 6. I want to be someone, I want to make a difference: Young care leavers preparing for the future in South Australia; Dee Michell and Claudine Scalzi.- Chapter 7. Muddling Upwards: The Unexpected, Unpredictable and Strange on the Path from Care to High Achievement; Jacqueline Z Wilson and Frank Golding.- Chapter 8. The contribution of a key scenario to care leavers' transition to adulthood in Israel; Yifat Mor-Salwo and Anat Zeira.- Chapter 9. The drawback of getting by - Implicit imbalances in the educational support of young people in and leaving care in Germany; Stefan Kongeter, Wolfgang Schroer and Maren Zeller.- Part III. Comparative policy and practice in different jurisdictions.- Chapter 10. Legislation, policy and practice: Developments in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia; Emily R. Munro, Anne-Kirstine M lholt and Katie Hollingworth.- Chapter 11. Involving peer researchers in studies of young people in and leaving care - Reflections from research in England, Northern Ireland and Argentina; Berni Kelly, Jo Dixon and Mariana Incarnato.- Chapter 12. Researching care leavers in an ethical manner in Switzerland, Germany, Israel and China; Samuel Keller, Benjamin Strahl, Tehila Refaeli and Claire (Ting) Zhao.- Part IV. An analysis of policy and practice in specific jurisdictions.- Chapter 13. Young people transitioning from care in Australia - a critical but neglected area of policy development; Toni Beauchamp.- Chapter 14. CREATE's advocacy for young people transitioning from care in Australia; Joseph J. McDowall.- Chapter 15. Journeys of Exclusion: Unpacking the experience of adolescent care leavers in New Zealand; Nicola Atwool.- Chapter 16. Transitioning from care in Vietnam: Policy context and practice strategies; Mary Elizabeth Collins and B齺 Thị Thanh Tuyền.- Chapter 17. Young People Transitioning from Care in South Africa: Welfare Contexts, Research and Practice; Adrian Van Breda and Lisa Dickens.- Chapter 18. Improving institutional care to enhance outcomes for care leavers in Russia; Evgenia Stepanova and Simon Hackett.- Chapter 19. Cast out and Punished, the experiences of care leavers in Jordan; Rawan Ibrahim.- Chapter 20. The role of informal leaving care peer support networks in Romania; Gabriela Dima and John Pinkerton.