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Aging Out of the Foster System : Youths' Perspectives - Miranda Mosier-Puentes

Aging Out of the Foster System

Youths' Perspectives

By: Miranda Mosier-Puentes, Marcelo Diversi

Hardcover | 12 November 2024

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Decades of demographic studies and applied efforts have convinced scholars, students, and social workers that young people coming of age and transitioning out of the foster care system face great challenges in health, education, income, and general well-being. Despite the wealth of research on these outcomes, we know much less about the lived experiences of young people leaving foster care.

Aging Out of the Foster System: Youth's Perspectives adds to this narrative the personal experiences of young people who are aging out or have aged out of their child welfare placement. The authors center the stories of these young people and apply critical ethnographic methods to frame their accounts with attention to the encounters within which they were produced, including power imbalances, institutional contexts, and relational dynamics.

By centering the experiences of youths in these contexts and attending to the larger forces at work, this book helps connect the dots between youth aging out of the foster care system, social workers in Independent Living Programs, and the professors and scholars teaching the next generations of professionals working to support the aging out process.

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"The powerful stories of seven much different youth transitioning out of foster care at 18 into life on their own. Told mostly through youth's own words, these stories allow us to listen to how each experienced, struggled and navigated the stresses and challenges of a cold world. A must read for students and all in the helping professions."
Reed W. Larson, Professor in the Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Never underestimate the power of individual stories to bring policy and research to life, as these authors have done. Drawing on the experiences of seven former foster youths, this book confirms and also potentially transforms our understanding of the experience of aging out of the child welfare system. This is an affirming read for anyone with foster care experience and a 'must-read' for current and future professionals."
Katharine Cahn, Professor of Practice Emerita, School of Social Work Portland State University.

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