The role of placement instability on employment and educational outcomes among adolescents leaving care. (December 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The role of placement instability on employment and educational outcomes among adolescents leaving care. (December 2021)
- Main Title:
- The role of placement instability on employment and educational outcomes among adolescents leaving care
- Authors:
- Goyette, Martin
Blanchet, Alexandre
Esposito, Tonino
Delaye, Ashleigh - Abstract:
- Highlights: We use data from interviews with 1136 youth transitioning out of Quebec 's care system. The data is supplemented by information from the administrative records of all youth. Placement instability is linked to much higher probability to drop out of school early. Instability is related to a higher probability not to be acquiring work experience. Instability is associated with lower probabilities to receive a high school degree. Abstract: Placement instability negatively impacts the lives of youth placed in out-of-home care, and research on the topic indicates that it is related to negative long-term outcomes for youth in care. This study uses information gathered from two waves of interviews conducted with a representative sample of 1136 Quebec youths who were first met at around 16 years of age when they were still in out of home placement, and at around age 18 when most of them had left placement. The youths' associated administrative child welfare data were also used to examine the relationships between placement instability, education outcomes, and occupational status. We find that youth who experience more placement instability have a much higher probability of dropping out of school early, and not to be acquiring work experience. Our results also indicated that these youths have a much lower probability to receive a high school degree.
- Is Part Of:
- Children and youth services review. Volume 131(2021)
- Journal:
- Children and youth services review
- Issue:
- Volume 131(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 131, Issue 2021 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 131
- Issue:
- 2021
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0131-2021-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12
- Subjects:
- Placement instability -- Educational attainment -- Occupational status -- Transition to adulthood -- Foster care
Social work with children -- Periodicals
Social work with youth -- Periodicals
Adolescent -- Periodicals
Child Welfare -- Periodicals
Social Work -- Periodicals
Service social aux enfants -- Périodiques
Service social à la jeunesse -- Périodiques
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362.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01907409 ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106264 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0190-7409
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