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Civic engagement among youth aging out of foster care
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Civic engagement among youth aging out of foster care
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processes and outcomes of a statewide initiative
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Forenza
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Bradley Anton
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1982-
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Bradley Forenza
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Peterson
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N. Andrew
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N. Andrew Peterson
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Simmel
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Cassandra
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Cassandra Simmel
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Advisory Committee
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internal member
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Windsor
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Liliane Cambraia
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Liliane Cambraia Windsor
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Advisory Committee
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Christens
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Brian D.
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Brian D. Christens
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outside member
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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2014-10
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2014
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Youth aging out of foster care constitute a vulnerable and understudied population, for whom civic engagement opportunities are rare. In spite of evidence that suggests civic engagement may be an empowering, developmental process for youth in the general population, few empirical studies have investigated these phenomena among youth aging out of care. This research utilized a qualitative approach to study the intersection of aging out and civic engagement for the betterment of primary prevention services and policy. Utilizing a targeted engagement initiative (Youth Advisory Board) for youth aging out of care in New Jersey, this research analyzed: (1) in-depth interviews/survey data from Youth Advisory Board leaders (who are themselves somewhere in the process of aging out of foster care), (2) in-depth interviews/survey data from civic youth workers (who are paid adults/employees of a local, nonprofit vendor agency that performs work in the area of child welfare), and (3) non-participant observation of Youth Advisory Board meetings, which occurred at five regional memberships throughout the state. Emergent themes revealed that (1) service and activism were discussed and approached in silo, even though both are dimensions of civic engagement; (2) youth reported very high levels of connection to their civic youth workers (adult coordinators who are also professional employees of a local nonprofit), though adults did not report similarly high levels; (3) perceptions of access to, and opportunity derived from, the New Jersey Department of Children and Families were also discussed, in tandem with the notion that (4) youth in this study perceived the Department positively, which may be attributed to the fact that youth in this study had personal connections to departmental officials and administrators. The final emergent theme (5) pertained to the professional goals of this youth sample, whereby activist-oriented and helping profession careers comprised future aspirations.
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Social Work
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Foster children--United States
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Foster home care--United States
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vii, 81 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Bradley Anton Forenza
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Forenza
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Bradley
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Anton
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2014-07-15 14:30:23
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Bradley Forenza
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2014-10-31
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2015-10-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 31st, 2015.
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