RE: Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

[JOANNE MILLS <JoanneMills@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Shradha.
I am a CP worker in British Columbia Canada, and would be interested in your findings.  We have failed to conduct these studies within this province and would like to increase interest in examining our practice and would like information from which to begin.
Any assistance you may have would be beneficial.
Joanne Mills.
Caring for First Nations Children Society

----- Original Message -----
From: Shradha Tibrewal <STibrewal@csustan.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:49 am
Subject: RE: Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

> Hi Stephanie,
> We would be interested as well. We just completed a 15 month 6 
> part study
> with foster youth and former foster youth in Stanislaus County, 
> California.This included tracking foster youth over a period of 12-
> 4 months, a process
> evaluation of the ILSP program, perceptions of former foster 
> youth, foster
> parents and service providers regarding foster youth needs as they
> transition to independent living and more. 
> The primary investigator is Dr. John Garcia and he would be the first
> author..
> 
> Shradha
> 
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Shradha Tibrewal, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Masters in Social Work Program
> CSU-Stanislaus
> Turlock, CA 95382
> Phone: (209) 667-3951
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis McMillen [cmcmille@gwbssw.wustl.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:43 AM
> To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
> Cc: Henrika McCoy
> Subject: Re: Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
> 
> Thanks for your initiative. I am interested. We are following a 
> cohort of
> 400 older youth as they leave the foster care system. We plan to 
> submit a
> piece on "How older youth leave the foster care system." Henrika 
> McCoy would
> probably be the first author. 
> 
> 
> Curtis
> 
> 
> 
> Curtis McMillen, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> George Warren Brown School of
>   Social Work
> Associate Director, Center for Mental Health Services Research
> Editor, Journal of Social Service Research
> Washington University 
> Campus Box 1196
> St. Louis MO 63130
> 314.935.7517
> cmcmille@wustl.edu
> 
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> >>> sberzin@uclink.berkeley.edu 02/16/05 01:30PM >>>
> I am a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, 
> and have
> been doing some 
> research on youth aging out of foster care, specfically examining 
> an ILSP
> program in Alameda 
> County, CA.  I was planning to submit a paper on this topic for 
> presentationnext year at SSWR. I 
> was looking to see if there was any interest in putting together a 
> symposiumon this topic. 
> Please contact me if you have any interest or know of anyone putting
> together a symposium on this 
> topic.
> 
> Thank you,
> Stephanie Berzin
> sberzin@berkeley.edu 
> 
>