When youth age out of care - where to from there?

Staff in the two communities in which the project has taken place worked over the course of several months to identify and refer eligible youth to the project; in one of these communities, the MCFD office was made available to us, which greatly facilitated our contacting and meeting with participants. [...] Children or youth living “in care”1 may Youth Officer’s and the BC Provincial Health Officer’s Joint be placed in one of the following options or living Report (2006) on the health and well-being of children arrangements: in care, in 2005 approximately 680 children in care in BC were age 18 and thus “aged out” of care in 2006, and n foster home; approximately 700 were age 17, and would “age out” n [...] The project was sponsored by the number of children reported to be living in care the School of Social Work, University of Victoria, and in BC went from 10,450 in 2002, to 9,080 in 2005 received funding from the Crime Prevention Partnership (Farris-Manning & Zandstra, 2003; Child and Youth Program of the National Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC), Officer for BC, 2006). [...] Section 3 describes the support during the process of transitioning out of research process including the design of the project and care. [...] As an aspect of the research, the project explored whether and how the provision of This report primarily addresses findings in relation to “peer support” made a difference to youth following the first two project objectives; findings in relation to their exit from care.