Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care

Foreword; Mike Stein.- Introduction; Philip Mendes and Pamela Snow.- Part I. Particularly vulnerable groups of care leavers. - Chapter 1. The Double-Bind - Looked After Children and Youth Justice; Nicola Carr and Siobhan McAlister.- Chapter 2. Young People Transitioning from Out-of-home Care in Victoria, Australia: Strengthening Support Services for Dual Clients of Child Protection and Youth Justice; Philip Mendes, Pamela C. Snow and Susan Baidawi.- Chapter 3. Supporting young people with an intellectual disability transitioning from out-of-home care to adult life in Queensland, Australia; Sarah McDonald, Kathleen Ellem and Jill Wilson.- Chapter 4. A comparison of young people with a disability transitioning from out-of-home care in Australia and Northern Ireland; Pamela C. Snow, Berni Kelly, Philip Mendes and Delia O'Donohue.- Part II. Pathways to Educational Success.- Chapter 5. Comparisons of policy and practice assisting care leavers into higher education in different jurisdictions/countries, and the role of international benchmarking; Andrew Harvey, Patricia McNamara and Lisa Andrewartha.- Chapter 6. I want to be someone, I want to make a difference: Young care leavers preparing for the future in South Australia; Dee Michell and Claudine Scalzi.- Chapter 7. Muddling Upwards: The Unexpected, Unpredictable and Strange on the Path from Care to High Achievement; Jacqueline Z Wilson and Frank Golding.- Chapter 8. The contribution of a key scenario to care leavers' transition to adulthood in Israel; Yifat Mor-Salwo and Anat Zeira.- Chapter 9. The drawback of getting by - Implicit imbalances in the educational support of young people in and leaving care in Germany; Stefan Kongeter, Wolfgang Schroer and Maren Zeller.- Part III. Comparative policy and practice in different jurisdictions.- Chapter 10. Legislation, policy and practice: Developments in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia; Emily R. Munro, Anne-Kirstine Mølholt and Katie Hollingworth.- Chapter 11. Involving

Philip Mendes is Associate Professor and Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work at Monash University, Australia.
Pamela Snow is Professor and Head of the Rural Health School at La Trobe University, Australia.