What is it about?
In the past few decades, the number of children requiring out-of-home care in the developing world has risen sharply. Many children end up in institutions where they make a transition to adulthood. Little is however known about the social support available to young people during and after they leave care. This study examines the sources and kinds of support as well as the barriers to social support for a group of care leavers
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Why is it important?
Care leavers use a combination of formal and informal sources for their support needs.The formal sources provided mostly financial and practical support, whereas the informal sources offered emotional and informational support. The barriers to access included the attitude of the staff and limited cultural skills of the care leavers.
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I hope this article helps practitioners in low-income countries who work with care leavers identify resources that this group of young people need more easily
Dr Kwabena Frimpong-Manso
University of Ghana
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This page is a summary of: The social support networks of care leavers from a children's village in Ghana: formal and informal supports, Child & Family Social Work, February 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12218.
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