Supportive housing in foster care: the views of young people
| Autor: | Minna Kyttälä, Hanna-Maija Sinkkonen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Community and Home Care
Health (social science) Activities of daily living Social work business.industry Social Welfare Pediatrics Education Foster care Nursing Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Health care Needs assessment Developmental and Educational Psychology Medicine Supportive housing ta516 Young adult business |
| Zdroj: | Child Care in Practice. 21(4):408-424 |
| ISSN: | 1357-5279 |
| Popis: | This study investigated Finnish young people's experiences of supportive housing. Supportive housing is an after-care programme that should support the transition from foster care to independent adulthood. It is directed mainly at young people who have been taken into foster care by social workers. The sample consisted of 39 young people (23 males, 16 females) aged 17–26 who had been residents in supportive care in Helsinki for 3–36 months. Their experiences were collected by use of a quantitative questionnaire. The data indicate that most of the participants felt their needs were met in supportive housing. Despite the overall positivity, two important issues should be noted. First, the results reveal some gender differences, indicating that boys had a somewhat more positive experience of supportive housing than girls. The second key issue is that many respondents did not get much support for acquiring hard skills such as managing financial, employment or health care issues, or for planning life after sup... |
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