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ABSTRACT
Research has shown that youth aging out of the foster care system experience an increased risk for several adverse adult outcomes (e.g., homelessness, unemployment, low educational attainment). Yet, fewer studies have examined the impact of homelessness on adult outcomes. The current study uses National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) to examine the associations between homelessness and two outcomes, post-secondary education and employment status, for transition-aged foster youth (N = 4,235). This study found that youth who experienced homelessness between 19 and 21 years were less likely to have post-secondary education or full-time employment, controlling for individual and foster care characteristics.
Acknowledgments
The data utilized in this article were made available by the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and were used with permission. Data from the study were originally collected by the Administration for Child and Families.
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This research did not receive any specific grant from a funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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Rachel Rosenberg
Rachel Rosenberg is a Doctoral Candidate at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work. Rachel’s research interest include the experiences of transition age foster youth (16-25) and the challenges/success they face during young adulthood. More specifically her dissertation examines how social networks and social support can help facilitate resilience during the transition to young adulthood.
Youngmi Kim
Youngmi Kim is an Associate Professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work. Her current research interests include asset-building policies and programs, material hardship, and effects of poverty on families and children’s well-being. In related research, she has worked on asset-building social policies and programs evaluation at both national and international levels, including a randomized social experiment Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK) in the U.S. and Hope Plus Savings Accounts program evaluation in Korea. She completed her MSW and PhD at the Brown School of Social Work of Washington University in St. Louis, and she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Social Development in Washington University.