Aging Out of the Foster System
Youths' Perspectives
- 186 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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: Youths' 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface: Confronting our assumptions about foster youth
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction to aging out: What do we know, and whose stories shape our knowing?
- 2. A. Martínez: My story isn’t finished
- 3. Brenden: Resisting labels and reforming systems
- 4. Cid: Looking back on aging out
- 5. Hannah: Aging out in just one day
- 6. No Day: “I share my experiences with foster care on the daily”
- 7. Oliver: The emphasis was on getting foster youth to the house
- 8. Tony: You never age out entirely
- 9. Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- References
- Index