Lopez Patricia, Allen Patricia Jackson
Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT, USA.
Pediatr Nurs. 2007 Jul-Aug;33(4):345-55.
Adolescents in foster care experience complex health care needs and face multiple barriers in receiving the necessary and appropriate health care services. When the adolescent ages-out of foster care at 18 or 21 years-old they are expected to make a transition to independence with no financial resources, poor access to health care, few personal and family connections and little if any support from the foster care system. This places them at risk for poor physical and mental health status, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and incarceration. No formalized system of transition planning has yet been established to meet the needs of adolescents before discharge from the foster care system.
寄养青少年有复杂的医疗保健需求，在获得必要且适当的医疗服务方面面临多重障碍。当青少年在18岁或21岁脱离寄养系统时，他们要在没有经济来源、难以获得医疗保健、个人及家庭关系薄弱且几乎得不到寄养系统支持的情况下向独立过渡。这使他们面临身心健康状况不佳、贫困、失业、无家可归及入狱的风险。目前尚未建立正式的过渡计划系统来满足寄养青少年在离开寄养系统前的需求。
