RE: Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

[Shradha Tibrewal <STibrewal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 [mailto: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 presentation
next year at SSWR. I 
was looking to see if there was any interest in putting together a symposium
on 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