Mentoring and Social Skills Training: Ensuring Better Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care

Autor/in	Williams, Charles A.
Titel	Mentoring and Social Skills Training: Ensuring Better Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care
Quelle	In: Child Welfare, 90 (2011) 1, S.59-74 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4021
Schlagwörter	Mentors; Family Violence; Placement; Homeless People; At Risk Persons; Foster Care; Adolescents; Child Abuse; Child Neglect; Intervention; Interpersonal Competence; Training; Academic Failure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Risikogruppe; Pflegehilfe; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindesvernachlässigung; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Ausbildung
Abstract	Youth in foster care face significant life challenges that make it more likely that they will face negative outcomes (i.e., school failure, homelessness, and incarceration). While the reason(s) for out-of-home placement (i.e., family violence, abuse, neglect and/or abandonment) provide some context for negative outcomes, such negative outcomes need not be a foregone conclusion. In fact, interventions created to serve at-risk youth could ostensibly address the needs of youth in foster care as well, given that they often face similar social, emotional, and other challenges. Specifically, the author posits that supporting foster care youth through the use of mentoring and social skills training could reduce the negative outcomes far too common for many of these youth. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Child Welfare League of America. P.O. Box 932831, Atlanta, GA 31193-2831. Tel: 800-407-6273; Tel: 770-280-4164; e-mail: order@cwla.org; Web site: http://www.cwla.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10