Extended care: Global dialogue on policy, practice and research

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Internal conversations, self-reliance and social support in emerging adults transitioning from out-of-home care: An interpretative phenomenological study

“…Transition services (including ‘extended care’) for care-leavers have gradually emerged in some jurisdictions, but there is a need for more interdisciplinary and international research into psychosocial need in order to generate evidence-based practice ( van Breda et al, 2020 ). A recent international review of transition services policy notes: ‘The overwhelming majority of youth in the transition from care to adulthood in the countries in our sample are left to survive on their own at age 18 or younger, even when legislation makes provisions for them to stay in care longer’ ( Strahl et al, 2021 ).…”

Editorial: Transitions from care to adulthood—Persistent issues across time and place

“…All countries represented in this Special Issue now have legislation and policy specifically aimed at supporting care leavers through the transition to adulthood, including recent developments in ‘extended care’ (van Breda et al, 2020). However, while there has been considerable progress, numerous concerns remain.…”

Housing after care: understanding security and stability in the transition out of care through the lenses of liminality, recognition and precarity

“…The Irish context: contingent aftercare supports and a housing market in crisis Ireland, like most European countries, has a policy of aftercare supports rather than care extension (Glynn and Mayock 2019;Tusla 2017b). While some jurisdictions permit the extension of care placements up to the age of 21 (or older), it is more common, internationally, for the state to provide aftercare support such as education and/or housing assistance than to grant rights to placement extension, which is also not typically granted to those in residential care (van Breda et al 2020). To a large extent, aftercare provision in Ireland necessitates an abrupt transfer to adult welfare services with some limited tailored services (such as having a designated aftercare worker), which is generally comparable to provisions in other jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and most of the states within the United States (Boddy et al 2019;Peters, Sherraden, and Kuchinski 2016;van Breda et al 2020).…”