Aged Out: How We're Failing Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

Aged Out: How We're Failing Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

Author: Sixto Cancel

Publisher: Think of Us

Published: 2022-05-05

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 0578288001

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Across the country, far too many young people age out of foster care into appalling circumstances. “Aging out” occurs when youth under the state’s custody are still in the foster care system when they reach either the age of majority or the end of extended foster care. Aging out refers to the moment in time when child welfare is no longer legally responsible for the youth, and the system abruptly stops providing services–usually when the youth turns either 18 or 21. Each year, thousands of youth age out of foster care, essentially legal orphans with no legal connection to family or a supportive network. Unfortunately, foster youth who go through the experience of aging out of foster care have statistically poor life prospects. Longitudinal studies across the country show very high rates of homelessness, incarceration, unemployment, and lack of access to health care among youth who aged out of foster care. These outcomes are disproportionately worse for Black, Native, and Brown youth, as well as queer and trans youth. This study is designed to understand the experiences of transition-age youth in their transition out of foster care and investigate: Why do poor outcomes for youth who age out of care persist? What are the current lived experiences of youth who age out of care? In what ways does child welfare continue to fall short for youth who age out of care?


Aged Out

Aged Out

Author: Dr. Lanetta N. Greer

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2020-04-26

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1480879991

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Owning and operating a nonprofit, group home for teenage girls has given Dr. Lanetta N. Greer a keen understanding of the challenges that they face. Home 4 the Heart, her facility, has helped almost two hundred girls over ten years. But assisting, supporting, and advocating for the girls that live at its three facilities has required lots of creativity. While Child Protective Services wants children to do well, the youth that they place in out-of-home care often have negative life outcomes. The lack of daily intimate contact with a caregiver causes somewhat of a constant disconnect—and normal daily relationships and activities with supportive caregivers are not always possible for youth in out-of-home care. In this qualitative study of young women who aged out of out-of-home care, the author describes family life, growing up in out-of-home care, and life after aging out. The results of the study will better inform service providers working with youth in foster/group homes, schools, juvenile justice placements, and community programs. The study’s findings and insights offer more effective ways of assisting, supporting, and advocating for youth to ensure a more successful transition to independence after aging out.


Aged Out

Aged Out

Author: Patrice Nussbaum

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-10-18

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1662441371

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Naia lives in a world where people are “aged out” at age seventy, and Naia has just turned sixty-nine! Aged Out is a dystopian thriller with social, religious, and modern political overtones. In Naia Gold’s world, no one wants for any material needs; the ruling class government provides all necessities for everyone. But individual sacrifices must be made for society’s betterment. The evolution of this ideology gave rise to the long-accepted mandate of eliminating citizens at age seventy, thereby efficiently dealing with the costly realities of aging. Naia has just turned sixty-nine, and she’s desperate to find a way to stay alive! Her society requires her to be aged out one month after she turns seventy! Will she comply like so many others? Or will she battle for survival in a world whose primary ethical value is forced compliance in order to implement total equality? Naia encounters a myriad of characters as she goes through her journey to survive being aged out. Some want to help her; others have their own agendas that conflict with Naia’s goals. Ultimately, Naia pursues and achieves an outcome that might be real or the product of a fevered mind, but when death comes, the reader must decide if Naia has been quietly aged out or has died a hero’s death that changes the world! Aged Out combines the sociopolitical issues of Atlas Shrugged and 1984 with the suspense of Brave New World and Logan’s Run, the mania of A Clockwork Orange and the science fiction creativity of Star Trek. The reader will be constantly caught off guard throughout!


Aging Out a True Story

Aging Out a True Story

Author: Alton Carter

Publisher: Roadrunner Press

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781937054281

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A true story about the perils of turning eighteen and aging out of the foster care system--written by the man who lived it.


Lifespan

Lifespan

Author: David A. Sinclair

Publisher: Atria Books

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1501191977

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant and enthralling.”​ —The Wall Street Journal A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people. It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold new theory for why we age. As he writes: “Aging is a disease, and that disease is treatable.” This eye-opening and provocative work takes us to the frontlines of research that is pushing the boundaries on our perceived scientific limitations, revealing incredible breakthroughs—many from Dr. David Sinclair’s own lab at Harvard—that demonstrate how we can slow down, or even reverse, aging. The key is activating newly discovered vitality genes, the descendants of an ancient genetic survival circuit that is both the cause of aging and the key to reversing it. Recent experiments in genetic reprogramming suggest that in the near future we may not just be able to feel younger, but actually become younger. Through a page-turning narrative, Dr. Sinclair invites you into the process of scientific discovery and reveals the emerging technologies and simple lifestyle changes—such as intermittent fasting, cold exposure, exercising with the right intensity, and eating less meat—that have been shown to help us live younger and healthier for longer. At once a roadmap for taking charge of our own health destiny and a bold new vision for the future of humankind, Lifespan will forever change the way we think about why we age and what we can do about it.


This Chair Rocks

This Chair Rocks

Author: Ashton Applewhite

Publisher: Celadon Books

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1250297249

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Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author


On Their Own

On Their Own

Author: Martha Shirk

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2006-08-08

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0786722029

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Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count on. What does it mean to be eighteen and on your own, without the family support and personal connections that most young people rely on? For many youth raised in foster care, it means largely unhappy endings, including sudden homelessness, unemployment, dead-end jobs, loneliness, and despair. On Their Own tells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who face economic and social barriers stemming from the disruptions of foster care. This book calls for action to provide youth in foster care the same opportunities on the road to adulthood that most of our youth take for granted-access to higher education, vocational training, medical care, housing, and relationships within their communities. On Their Own is meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to all Americans who care about the futures of our young people.


Protecting Children

Protecting Children

Author: Kathleen Kufeldt

Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1773382551

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Focusing on children who are subject to welfare intervention, Protecting Children addresses the challenges and issues of the child welfare system and provides foundational knowledge on the theoretical and practical aspects of the field. This edited collection begins with a review of key concepts, including child development, attachment, and resilience theories; social policies; family law; and ethics. Highlighting the translation of theory into practice, the contributors discuss current services and the search for best practice internationally, as well as explore Indigenous child welfare and offer conclusions and recommendations to promote positive outcomes for children and families involved in the system. Scholars, researchers, and practitioners from across the globe provide insight on a wide range of timely issues, such as the risk of reductionism, limits to predictability, pragmatic issues, as well as the disproportional presence in the care system of minority groups, including Indigenous children, children of new immigrants and refugees, children in LGBTQ communities, and children of the poor. This foundational volume is an important resource for courses in social work and child welfare. FEATURES - includes contributions from researchers, practitioners, and scholars from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States - highlights Indigenous authors and personal stories of service users, and includes figures and tables throughout the text, as well as section introductions and conclusions to situate main theories and concepts for students