Study protocol for leaving care-A comparison study of implementation, change mechanisms and effectiveness of transition services for youth.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Youth placed in out-of-home care is a large and highly vulnerable group at high risk of negative developmental outcomes. Given the size and extent of negative developmental outcomes for youth placed in out-of-home care, interventions to help this vulnerable group navigate successfully towards independent living and promote wellbeing across a spectrum of outcome areas are needed. To date, there is a lack of such interventions, particularly in Sweden. Importing interventions from other societies and cultures is associated with difficulties. The aim of the research project is to implement, test, and evaluate interventions that have been recently developed in Swedish practice to close this gap.

Methods

The project has an ambitious and complex data collection and ana

SUBMITTER: Skoog T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10852220 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature