McCauley Erin
323 Uris Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Department of Sociology, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University.
Child Youth Serv Rev. 2021 Dec;131. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106293. Epub 2021 Nov 10.
This study examines how disability is associated with risk during the transition to adulthood for youth who age out of foster care and considers how experiences in the child welfare system contribute to these associations.
The transition to adulthood is important for later socioeconomic standing, health, and wellbeing. Youth who age out of foster care with disabilities may require a high level of support during this transition yet may lack support.
This study employs linear probability models to estimate the association between disability and incarceration, homelessness, childbearing, and substance abuse between ages 17 and 21 using linked administrative data from the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (N=5,221).
Having a physical or sensory disability is associated with lower risk in the transition to adulthood. Alternatively, having an emotional or mental related disability is associated with increased risk of incarceration and homelessness, but the association with homelessness is accounted for by child welfare experiences.
Due to the importance of foster care and child protective histories in explaining some risky outcomes for youth with emotional and mental disabilities, policy makers and practitioners should include those early stages of care when seeking it improve outcomes in the transition to adulthood for youth with disabilities who age out of foster care.
本研究探讨了寄养儿童成年过渡期间残疾与风险之间的关联，并考虑了儿童福利系统中的经历如何促成这些关联。
成年过渡对后期的社会经济地位、健康和幸福至关重要。残疾的寄养儿童在这一过渡期间可能需要高水平的支持，但可能缺乏支持。
本研究采用线性概率模型，利用来自国家虐待与忽视儿童数据档案库的关联行政数据（N = 5221），估计17至21岁之间残疾与监禁、无家可归、生育和药物滥用之间的关联。
身体或感官残疾与成年过渡期间较低的风险相关。相反，患有情感或精神相关残疾与监禁和无家可归风险增加相关，但与无家可归的关联可由儿童福利经历解释。
由于寄养照料和儿童保护历史在解释患有情感和精神残疾青年的一些风险结果方面的重要性，政策制定者和从业者在寻求改善从寄养照料中成年过渡的残疾青年的结果时，应纳入这些早期照料阶段。
