Although adolescents are the primary focus of juvenile justice, a significant number of young
people involved with this system are considered transition age youth (ie, 16–25 years of …

Many foster youth do not exit care for a permanency option and remain in foster care until
they age out or are emancipated. Research findings have described the alarming …

An intense appetite for reforming and transforming child welfare services in the United
States is yielding many new initiatives. Vulnerable children and families who become …

Young people who are taken up into the care system (including foster, formal kinship and
residential or group care) traditionally have to leave care at age 18, the generally accepted …

Executive Summary The federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing
Adoptions Act of 2008 (Fostering Connections Act) was, to a large extent, based on the …

Introduction Compared to their peers, youth who leave the foster care system without
permanency experience greater risks for adverse young adult outcomes, including …

The American incarceration rate, though recently stabilized, increased rapidly over the past
half century. Today, compared with the 1970s, more than five times as many people spend …

Most studies on young people aging-out of residential care (care leavers) have examined
their situation in various post-care life domains (eg education, employment), but their …

Introduction Young people aging out of the child welfare system face significant barriers to
their transition into adulthood including issues related to housing, employment, education …

This study uses labeling theory to examine the role that adolescent legal system
involvement may play in initiating a process of social exclusion, leading to higher levels of …