Development of a pre-college program for foster youth: Opportunities and challenges of program implementation

MS Jackson, AD Colvin, AN Bullock - Child and Adolescent Social Work …, 2020 - Springer
The research on the challenges experienced by youth transitioning from foster care to
college has expanded exponentially over the last 10 years. More recently, the growth of …

Stopping the cycle of child abuse and neglect: A call to action to focus on pregnant and parenting youth in and aging out of the foster care system

JM Geiger, LA Schelbe - Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Each year, a significant number of adolescents become pregnant in the United States, with
more than half of these pregnancies resulting in live births. Adolescent parenting is …

Relationship types and contraceptive use within young adult dating relationships

J Manlove, K Welti, E Wildsmith… - Perspectives on Sexual …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
CONTEXT Although expanding research has found that relationship characteristics can
shape contraceptive use among young adults, limited research has examined how …

Ideals and reality: Perceptions of healthy and unhealthy relationships among foster youth

B Forenza, A Bermea, B Rogers - Child and Adolescent Social Work …, 2018 - Springer
Exploring romantic relationships is a hallmark of adolescence. As dating relationships are
often new during this development trajectory, learning how to be in a relationship (eg …

The cycle of child protection services involvement: A cohort study of adolescent mothers

E Wall-Wieler, M Brownell, D Singal, N Nickel… - Pediatrics, 2018 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES: To determine if adolescent mothers who were in the care of child protection
services (CPS) when they gave birth to their first child are more likely to have that child taken …

Resiliency and adolescent motherhood in the context of residential foster care

AM Bermea, B Forenza, HA Rueda… - Child and Adolescent …, 2019 - Springer
The purpose of the current study was to explore how adolescent mothers experienced
pregnancy and parenthood within the context of residential foster care. Adolescent mothers …

Infant birth weight and maltreatment of adolescent mothers

JA Cederbaum, E Putnam-Hornstein, B King… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Emerging literature suggests that maternal exposure to stress and adversity
throughout the life course may have health consequences for offspring. Purpose To examine …

Bridging the divide between child welfare and home visiting systems to address the needs of pregnant and parenting youth in care

A Dworsky, ER Gitlow, K Ethier - Social Service Review, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article presents findings from an implementation study of a pilot project that connected
pregnant and parenting youth in care with home visiting services. It draws primarily on …

Narratives of women's retrospective experiences of teen pregnancy, motherhood, and school engagement while placed in foster care

SK Ohene, A Garcia - Children and Youth Services Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Pregnant and Parenting Teens (PPTs) in foster care experience, among many
setbacks, more academic difficulties, than their peers who are not in foster care. The …

Adolescent mothers in foster care: Relational ethics, depressive symptoms and health problems through a contextual therapy lens

KL Wilson, T Glebova, S Davis, G Seshadri - Contemporary family therapy, 2017 - Springer
This is the first study that provides empirical support for the importance of contextual theory
notions of relational ethics for the well-being of adolescent mothers in the foster care system …