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Schwamm, Jeffrey B. – Children and Youth Services Review, 1988
The article describes critical factors in the organization and delivery of services to students-in-transition with severe to profound mental retardation. The extent of need for transition services is reviewed; a framework for transition case management in Philadelphia is described; and the roles of communications, capability, and disposition in…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
English, Diana J.; And Others – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Reviews data on the skill level and readiness for independence of adolescents who are placed in the substitute care system in Washington State. Findings suggest that many of these youth do well in terms of skill learning and performance, and are prepared for independence upon emancipation. Nevertheless, remedial training is suggested to better…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Foster Care
Iglehart, Alfreda P. – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Responsibility, self-care, supportive environment, and employment were analyzed as significant indicators of readiness for independent living for adolescents in foster care. Results indicated that school performance, mental health problems, hours worked per week, total number of placements, contact with father, ethnicity, and caretaker perceptions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Foster Care
Waldinger, Gloria; Furman, Walter M. – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Compares two models for delivering emancipation preparation services to foster youths on pragmatic, structural, and client outcomes dimensions. The models differ primarily on the extent of caseworker involvement. Suggests that a model which incorporates both skill-building programs and an intensive and integrated case management function holds…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Foster Care
Hahn, Andrew – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Examines whether some of the most common assessment tools used in foster care programs are capable of identifying young peoples' competencies, strengths, and weakness. Describes the limited role assessment presently plays in foster care and its potential as a policy tool to promote accountability and interest in the independent living skills of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Diagnostic Tests
Mech, Edmund V. – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Introduces articles presenting a cross section of current research activity on preparing foster youth for adulthood. Suggests it is vital to develop a knowledge-building agenda; that research efforts be prospective and programmatic rather than ex post facto, occasional, or sporadic; and that attention be directed toward testing and evaluating…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Foster Care
Cook, Ronna J. – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Summarizes findings from the National Evaluation of Title IV-E Independent Living Programs for Youth in Foster Care. With respect to education completion, young parenthood, and use of public assistance, discharged foster care youth more closely resemble 18- to 24-year-olds living below the poverty level than 18- to 24-year-olds in the general…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Foster Care
Mech, Edmund V.; And Others – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Assessed life-skills knowledge levels among older foster adolescents in foster family homes, group homes/institutions, and apartments. Results suggest a need to improve life-skills preparation in group home/institutional settings, to target minority males for life-skills enhancement in all placement settings, and to utilize apartment placements to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Foster Care
Aldgate, Jane – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Outlines the social and practical problems faced by foster care graduates and discusses these issues in the light of recent research in England and Wales. Offers ideas on how these problems may be ameliorated in general and outlines the way the new British child care law has provided a framework for action by practitioners. (AA)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Foreign Countries