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Cross-over Youth as Adults• Cross-over Youth
– 50% experienced period of extreme poverty
– 66% had jail stay compared to 25% child welfare only
– 18% with adult probation– Highest rate of inpatient
and outpatient health services care
• Juvenile Justice Youth– 25% experienced
period of extreme poverty
– 50% had jail stay– 18% with adult
probation
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Cross-over Youth
• Cross-over Youth• 40% enrolled in
community college• 10% utilized
outpatient mental health services
• Juvenile Justice Youth• 2% received AA
degree• 3% met transfer
requirements to 4 year college
• Less than 1% enrolled in 4 year school
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Table Talk
• What should we consider in light of this information?
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Impact of Foster Care
• View of youth as a separate member of family
• Attachment, grief and family privilege
• Constant themes of loss
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Foster Care Survivalist• Former foster youth
demonstrate PTSD rates up to twice as high as U.S. war veterans
• Foster youth compared with others with maltreatment background but not placed report more severe/frequent mental health and behavioral problems
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Foster Care Survivalist
• Premature conferral of adult status and independence
• Growing up without parents: learning to take care of oneself
• Disavowal of dependence: making meaning of loss and hardship
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Youth perceive themselves as their most valuable advocate and source of hope while
also viewing themselves as greatest enemy and threat to survival.
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Resilience in Transitioning Youth
• Resilience: developmental course characteristic of healthy adjustment despite the circumstance of considerable hardship
• Majority demonstrated resilience across multiple domains with female gender, older age at exit, less global stress and higher support significant for higher degrees of resilience
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Complex Trauma• Combination of early and late-onset, multiple,
and sometimes highly invasive traumatic events, usually of an ongoing interpersonal nature.
• Often includes exposure to repetitive childhood sexual, physical and/or psychological abuse which may occur within the context of emotional neglect and
• Harmful social environments, including poverty, racism, sexism, violence ridden neighborhoods, as an example
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Impact of Complex Trauma
• Attachment• Biology• Affect regulation• Dissociation• Behavioral regulation• Cognition
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Adolescent Behaviors and Complex Trauma
• Tension reducing behaviors– Suicidal behavior– Intentional but
nonsuicidal self-injury
– Major substance abuse
– Eating disorders
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Adolescent Behaviors and Complex Trauma
– Dysfunctional sexual behavior
– Excessive risk-taking
– Physical altercations
– PTSD– Revictimization
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Placement Stability• Nearly 1 in 3 failed to
achieve any placement stability
• Placement stability strongly associated with behavioral outcomes
• Unstable placements had twice the odds of having behavior problems
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Trauma Informed Practice Foci
• Safety• Self regulation• Self-reflective
information processing• Traumatic experiences
integration• Relational engagement • Positive affect
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Developing Decision Making
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Non-minor Dependent Rights
• Non-minor dependents retain all of his or her legal decision making authority as an adult (WIC 303(d)
• The decision about remaining in extended foster care is one of the first that they will make
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Talking About Extended Foster Care
• Utilize the practice principles you have developed throughout the day
• Use the flyer on extended foster care
• Practice a brief conversation about extended foster care
• What will you emphasize?
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Jurisdictional Status• May remain under
delinquency jurisdiction• If have met rehabilitative
goal, may move to Transition Jurisdiction
• May move to non-minor dependent status under dependency jurisdiction through 241.1 amended county protocol
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Last hearing Before Age 18• Report must include:
– Plan to remain non-minor dependent
– ICWA participation– SSI and SIJS info– Transition Jurisdiction
recommendation– DPO efforts– Documents and information
provided to youth– TILP outlining planned
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Transition Jurisdiction
• Age and placement
• Ward or dependent status
• Rehabilitative status
• Reunification status
• Intent to participate
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Opt Out
• Youth elects to exit foster care
• Must create the 90 day transition plan
• Youth must be informed about right to re-entry
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Transitional Independent Living Case Plan and Transitional Independent Living Plan
• Submitted with court report 10 calendar days before hearing
• Must include:– Plan to meet criteria & placement– Alternative plan
• Housing• Education• Employment• Support system
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Findings• Specific criteria to be satisfied• TILCP includes alternative plan• For ICWA eligible:
– Youth intends or does NOT intend to be considered Indian child
• Status of Supplemental Security application• Legal residency status• Information, documents and services required
391(e)• Understands rights• Continuance
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Orders• If the youth is entering
extended foster care:– court must set a review
hearing within six months of current hearing
• If opting out:– Set hearing for date within
1 month after turns 18– Set 366.21, 366.22,
366.25 or 366.3 as dependent
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Effects of Legal Adult Status
• Hearings can be attended only by those invited by youth WIC 295
• No protective custody warrants WIC 303(d)
• Court cannot order psychotropic medication WIC 303 (d)
• No caregiver consent for medical/education decisions WIC 303 (d)
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Effects of Legal Adult Status
• NMD has privacy rights about medical information
• No discussion of educational limits on parents
• Personal rights of foster children DO apply (WIC 16001.9)
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What Next?
• Mutual agreement
• Placement
• Eligibility documentation
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Mutual Agreements
• Non-minor dependents must sign a mutual agreement within 6 months of turning 18 if they intend to remain in care
• Signed agreement is not a prerequisite to payment for placement
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Placement Considerations
• Non-minor dependent youth are adults• Placements should be least restrictive• Encourage independence• Developmental needs and readiness for
independence• Decisions are made in conversation with
youth
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Group Homes• Youth in extended foster care can remain in
group homes for a brief period if:– The placement is voluntary; and– Staying in the group home will help the youth complete
high school or obtain a GED; and– The youth plans to leave the group home care after
completing high school, obtaining a GED or turning age 19 whichever comes first.
OR– The group home provides treatment for a medical or
mental health condition that interferes the youth’s ability to meet any of the other participation conditions.
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After Adolescence: Now What?
• Less than 50% of young adults graduate from college in 4 years
• Antidepressant use is highest among 21-32 years
• 40% of young adults 18-35 years are overly dependent on parents for financial, emotional, physical support
• 58% of 21-24 year olds live at home or have returned home in the last 2 years
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A New Stage of Development
• Age range from 18 to 25 years
• Reflects changes prevalent in industrialized nations
• Time that is least structured and more heterogeneous
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Emerging Adults
• A phase rather than a stage that overlaps with adolescence and early adulthood
• Five features are more common but not exclusively required
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Emerging Adults
• Age of identity exploration
• Age of Instability• Self-focused age• Age of feeling in-
between• Age of possibilities
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Emerging Adulthood
• Peak age period of behaviors that most try to discourage–Binge drinking– Illegal drug use–Risky sexual
behavior
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Missouri Longitudinal Study• Majority of youth left by
age 19• Those who left earlier
tended to return to family and then to independent living situation
• Those who remained in care transitioned rapidly from group care to independent living situation
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Why Youth Chose to Leave• 39% disliked or were
frustrated with the “system”
• 28% desire for independence
• 21% failure of Children’s Division to provide services
• 22% desired change in circumstances
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Who Decided
• 45.8% youth’s idea• 35.4% social worker’s
idea• 9.9% judge’s idea• 4/2% family’s idea• 1.4% didn’t know• 3.3% someone else’s
idea
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Table Talk
What does Missouri’s experience suggest to us?