Re: tracking foster kids

[Dderezotes@xxxxxxx]

There are a couple of resources I thought of after reading the request for 
information regarding homeless youth. There are two studies I immediately 
thought of, one national, one in Wisconsin, that deal with the issue of youth 
in foster care aging out. Each of them tracks the youth for some time after 
they leave. While the foster parents aren't the focus of the studies, the 
information could be helpful as they use primary contacts for finding the 
youth once they've left. The two studies are:

Cook, R.J.(1997). Are we helping foster cre youth prepare for their future? 
In J.D. Berrick, R.P. Barth, and N. Gilbert (Eds.), Child Welfare Research 
Review, Vol. 11. (pp. 201-218). New York: Columbia University Press.

and

Courtney, M.E., Piliavin, I., Grogan-Kaylor, A., & Nesmith, A. (1998). Foster 
youth transitions to adulthood: Outcomes 12 to 18 months after leaving 
out-of-home care. [On-line] Available: 
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/socwork/foster/index.html


Dennette M. Derezotes
Assistant Director
Children and Family Research Center
School of Social Work
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Telephone #773/465-0515