Housing and Social Support for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: State of the Research Literature and Directions for Future Inquiry
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- 作者：Susanna R. Curry ; Laura S. Abrams
- 关键词：Transitional age youth ; Youth homelessness ; Housing ; Social support ; Emancipation ; Self ; sufficiency
- 刊名：Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：April 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：32
- 期：2
- 页码：143-153
- 全文大小：238 KB
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- 刊物主题：Psychology
Personality and Social Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Sociology - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-2797
文摘
Youth who age out of the foster care system often experience a difficult transition to adulthood in several important domains, including housing. Although high rates of homelessness are well documented, scant research has examined how youth navigate housing and living arrangements in the immediate years following emancipation. In addition, little is known about the relationship between social support and housing stability for this population. In this paper, we argue that in policy and practice regarding emancipated foster youth there is a central tension between the goal of “self-sufficiency-and the practical need to maintain and create supportive social connections. We suggest that programs for emancipated youth could benefit from more research and policy attention on this tension and how it may play a role in housing outcomes. In building our argument, we first review the literature on housing and emancipated foster youth in the transition to adulthood period. Next, we discuss the body of research literature exploring the role and function of social support for youth who have aged out of care. We highlight how policies appear to favor the development of self-sufficiency for aged-out youth over the development of a social support network and suggest key directions for future research, policy and practice concerning emancipated foster youth and housing.