Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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11 Foster Care, Welfare Services, and Services for Homeless Young Adults
11 Foster Care, Welfare Services, and Services for Homeless Young Adults
Pages 95-102
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A variety of public systems exist to assist vulnerable populations, including populations of young adults. This chapter summarizes presentations on three of those systems: services for homeless young adults, foster care, and welfare services.
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Homelessness typically results from a "constellation of challenges," said Courtney. Research has shown that homeless populations tend to have strained or nonexistent relations with family, high self-reported rates of parental maltreatment, and disproportionate involvement with the foster care system and the juvenile and adult justice systems.
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"Usually we want attachment to happen in infancy." Former foster youth tend to have poor outcomes in several key domains, Samuels observed. About one-quarter of former foster youth ages 2 TheFoster Care Independence Act of 1999, Public Law 106-169, 42 U.S.C.
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Neuroscience research also indicates that relationships during adolescence can either correct and restore neurological growth or deeply reinforce earlier disruptions caused by negative relational histories, Samuels said. Recent results about brain plasticity "provide both hope and some worry about what we are doing and not doing during adolescence." Finally, grief work and narrative construction can directly address maltreatment, losses, and relational disruptions.
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to seven places since the last time I talked to them, a lot of what they describe are relational issues that impair their ability to deal with a difficult boss, or whatever it may be." • What are the other risk and protective factors beyond those of the individual, such as familial, societal, policy, and practice factors, and how do all of these factors interact as dynamic intersecting processes? Maltreatment and foster care are two distinct factors that can independently shape outcomes among foster youth, said Samuels.
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But many young adults are neither in school nor employed, and these rates are especially high among vulnerable groups. The safety net in the United States varies greatly by family status.
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Welfare programs and youth programs tend to be separated and not communicate with each other, even when someone is eligible to participate in both. (In the discussion session, Courtney and Samuels both pointed to some states and counties that have made progress in coordinating programs, including some states that have extended foster care to age 21 to better integrate education, workforce development, and health and mental health services.)
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