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Informationen zum Autor Philip Mendes is Associate Professor and Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work at Monash University, Australia. Pamela Snow is Professor and Head of the Rural Health School at La Trobe University, Australia. Klappentext This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role of advocacy groups, ethical challenges and cultural factors. In doing so it demonstrates that, whilst young people are universally a vulnerable group, there are vast differences in their experiences of out-of-home care and transitions from care, and their shorter and longer-term outcomes. Equally, there are significant variations between jurisdictions in terms of the legislative, policy and practice supports and opportunities made available to them. This significant edited collection is essential reading for all those who work with young people from care, including social workers, counsellors, and youth and community practitioners, as well as for students and scholars of child welfare. Zusammenfassung This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role of advocacy groups, ethical challenges and cultural factors. In doing so it demonstrates that, whilst young people are universally a vulnerable group, there are vast differences in their experiences of out-of-home care and transitions from care, and their shorter and longer-term outcomes. Equally, there are significant variations between jurisdictions in terms of the legislative, policy and practice supports and opportunities made available to them. This significant edited collection is essential reading for all those who work with young people from care, including social workers, counsellors, and youth and community practitioners, as well as for students and scholars of child welfare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Mike Stein.- Introduction; Philip Mendes and Pamela Snow.- Part I. Particularly vulnerable groups of care leavers. – Chapter 1. The Double-Bind – Looked After Children and Youth Justice; Nicola Carr and Siobhan McAlister.- Chapter 2. Young People Transitioning from Out-of-home Care in Victoria, Australia: Strengthening Support Services for Dual Clients of Child Protection and Youth Justice; Philip Mendes, Pamela C. Snow and Susan Baidawi.- Chapter 3. Supporting young people with an intellectual disability transitioning from out-of-home care to adult life in Queensland, Australia; Sarah McDonald, Kathleen Ellem and Jill Wilson.- Chapter 4. A comparison of young people with a disability transitioning from out-of-home care in Australia and Northern Ireland; Pamela C. Snow, Berni Kelly, Philip Mendes and Delia O’Donohue.- Part II. Pathways to Educational Success.- Chapter 5. Comparisons of policy and practice assisting care leavers into higher education in different jurisdictions/countries, and the role of international benchmarking; Andrew Harvey, Patricia McNamara and Lisa Andrewartha.- Chapter 6. I want to be someone, I want to make a difference: Young care leavers preparing for the future in South Australia; Dee Michell and Claudine Scalzi.- Chapter 7. Muddling Upwards: The Unexpected, Unpredictable and Strange on the ...
