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Aging Out of the Foster System: Youth's Perspectives provides a crucial and important narrative of the lived experiences of young people leaving foster care.
List of contents
1. Introduction to Aging Out: What do we know, and whose stories shape our knowing? 2. A. Martínez: My story isn't finished 3. Brenden: Resisting labels and reforming systems 4. Cid: Looking back on aging out 5. Hannah: Aging out in just one day 6. No Day: "I share my experiences with foster care on the daily" 7. Oliver: The emphasis was on getting foster youth to the house 8. Tony: You never age out entirely 9. Conclusion
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About the author
Miranda Mosier-Puentes is Assistant Professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing from education, social work, and gender studies, and her publications focus on youth aging out of the foster system, social class and educational access, and the relational experiences of first-generation college students.
Marcelo Diversi is Professor of Human Development at Washington State University Vancouver. He is the co-author, with Claudio Moreira, of Betweener Autoethnographies: A Path Towards Social Justice (2018), which was awarded the 2019 Best Book Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communications Association. He has authored dozens of articles in leading qualitative inquiry journals focusing on issues of marginalization, oppression, exclusion, social justice, decolonialization, and critical inquiry.
Summary
Aging Out of the Foster System: Youth’s Perspectives provides a crucial and important narrative of the lived experiences of young people leaving foster care.
