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Receipt of help acquiring life skills and predictors of help receipt among current and former foster youth

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  • Courtney, Mark E.
  • Lee, JoAnn
  • Perez, Alfred

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US law has long recognized the need to help prepare foster youth for the transition to adulthood and states receive funds specifically intended to provide their foster youth with independent living services. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to whether foster youth in fact receive the services states are supposed to provide using federal funds. This study uses data from the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth to describe the kinds of help foster youth receive in making the transition to adulthood and the factors associated with help receipt. Study findings call for a redoubling of efforts to provide foster youth with the assistance called for in federal law, provide support for the extension of foster care through age 21 in the interest of ensuring that such assistance is provided, highlight the need to involve foster parents more actively in providing youth with life skills training, and call into question whether current efforts to assist foster youth in acquiring independent living skills are well targeted.

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  • Courtney, Mark E. & Lee, JoAnn & Perez, Alfred, 2011. "Receipt of help acquiring life skills and predictors of help receipt among current and former foster youth," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(12), pages 2442-2451.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:33:y:2011:i:12:p:2442-2451
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.08.026
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