Authentically engaging youth with foster care experience
Definitions and recommended strategies from youth and staff
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12600282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy M Salazar (0000-0002-5392-6275, Washington State University, corresponding author), Sara S Spiers (Washington State University), Francis R Pfister (Washington State University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1015-1032 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13676261.2020.1792863 |
| OpenAlex | W3042975189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 20 |
Child welfare service providers in the United States are increasingly acknowledging the importance of engaging youth with foster care experience in case planning, policy advocacy, and practice change. However, evidence for how to do this well is still quite limited. This study aims to answer two research questions: a) How do youth and staff/professionals define/conceptualize authentic youth engagement (AYE)? and b) What are youths’ and staff/professionals’ recommended strategies for authentically engaging youth? Thirty stakeholder interviews (15 youth, 15 staff/professionals) and 81 surveys (46 youth, 35 staff/professionals) were completed. Four themes emerged regarding conceptualizations of authentic youth engagement, while three themes emerged regarding recommendations for authentically engaging youth. These perspectives offer valuable insight into overcoming barriers related to authentically engaging youth in service provision, policy, and practice
Business · Developmental psychology · Foster care · Political science · Positive Youth Development · Public relations · Service (business · Service provider · Stakeholder · Stakeholder engagement · Youth engagement · Youth studies · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support
Helping Youth in Foster Care Develop Life Skills
Organizational Capacity for Youth Engagement
The Transition-Age Youth Special Interest Group
Scoping Review of Worker Characteristics and Competencies That Support Youth Engagement in Child Welfare Case Planning
Post‐Secondary Educational Aspirations Among Young Adults With Foster Care Experience
Independent Living Coordinators’ Effects on Intangible Domains in an Independent Living Program
Youth Receiving Child Welfare Services and their Preferred Relationships With Their Service Providers
Care leavers’ employment experiences and outcomes
Youth in foster care
The perceived adultism scale
Empowering transition age youth through trauma-informed, strengths-based, youth-centered, and anti-racist practices
Fostering Higher Education
Creating conditions that encourage youth engagement in family child welfare case planning meetings
Reflection, connection, and creative expression
Post‐secondary vocational education for youth leaving care
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings
Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems
Children's Participation
Disruptions in foster care
Psychological Empowerment and the Pursuit of Social Change
Personal resilience and identity capital among young people leaving care
Pawns or power players
A conceptual mapping of three anti-adultist approaches to youth work
Youth participation in foster youth advisory boards
Strategies for engaging foster care youth in permanency planning family team conferences
Youth participation in policy advocacy
My Life
Providing age-appropriate activities for youth in foster care
Preventing youth violence through the promotion of community engagement and membership
Is extracurricular participation associated with beneficial outcomes? Concurrent and longitudinal relations
Positive Youth Development in the United States
Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |