- Title Pages
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Series Foreword
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Contributors
- Introduction
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1 How Can I Be a Real Adult?
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2 Social Networks and Social Support in the Transition to Adulthood
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3 Resilience, Transitions, and Youth Leaving Care
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4 Reflections on Upholding the Rights of Youth Leaving Out-of-Home Care
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5 Policy as Social Ecological Resilience Scaffolding for Leaving Care
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6 The Transition to Adulthood from Care
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7 The Benefits of Extending State Care to Young Adults
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8 The Experiences of Indigenous Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care in Victoria, Australia
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9 Stay or Leave?
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10 Foster Care as a Support System for Early Leavers
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11 The Longer Term Contributions of Formal and Informal Support
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12 Indigenous Youth Leaving Care in Canada
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13 Mental Health and Suicide Concerns
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14 Caring Adults “R” Everywhere (CARE)
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15 Care Leaving and the Transition Jungle in Germany
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16 Earning a Hoodie, Voyager Capital
- Afterword
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Index
Policy as Social Ecological Resilience Scaffolding for Leaving Care
Policy as Social Ecological Resilience Scaffolding for Leaving Care
A Case Study of South Africa
This chapter’s authors argue that social policy on leaving care is a critical resilience process for promoting care leavers’ successful transition toward emerging adulthood. Care leaving literature has given limited attention to the wider policy contexts in which care leavers make this transition. This chapter argues for a better understanding of how these contexts can bolster the social ecology of care leaving by providing a policy scaffolding to the support and services required by care leavers. South Africa is used to illustrate the argument, capitalizing on the heightened political sensibilities of a society still grappling with the legacy of apartheid and committed to developmental social welfare as a strategic policy direction. The chapter concludes that the South African case study not only highlights the need to address the policy context of youth transitioning from out-of-home care, but also demonstrates the benefits of cross-national reflection on policy and practice development and implementation.
Keywords: resilience, South Africa, youth transitions, out-of-home care, leaving care, social development
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- Title Pages
-
Series Foreword
-
Foreword
-
Acknowledgments
-
Contributors
- Introduction
-
1 How Can I Be a Real Adult?
-
2 Social Networks and Social Support in the Transition to Adulthood
-
3 Resilience, Transitions, and Youth Leaving Care
-
4 Reflections on Upholding the Rights of Youth Leaving Out-of-Home Care
-
5 Policy as Social Ecological Resilience Scaffolding for Leaving Care
-
6 The Transition to Adulthood from Care
-
7 The Benefits of Extending State Care to Young Adults
-
8 The Experiences of Indigenous Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care in Victoria, Australia
-
9 Stay or Leave?
-
10 Foster Care as a Support System for Early Leavers
-
11 The Longer Term Contributions of Formal and Informal Support
-
12 Indigenous Youth Leaving Care in Canada
-
13 Mental Health and Suicide Concerns
-
14 Caring Adults “R” Everywhere (CARE)
-
15 Care Leaving and the Transition Jungle in Germany
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16 Earning a Hoodie, Voyager Capital
- Afterword
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Index
