Youth Without Family to Lean On

<p><em>Youth Without Family to Lean On</em> draws together interdisciplinary, global perspectives to provide a comprehensive review of the characteristics, dynamics, and development of youth (aged 15–25) who have no family to lean on, either practically or psychologically.<br><br>In this timely volume, Mozes and Israelashvili bring together leading international experts to present updated knowledge, information on existing interventions, and unanswered questions in relation to youth without family to lean on, in pursuit of fostering these youth’s positive development. The various chapters in this book include discussions on different topics such as social support, developing a sense of belonging, parental involvement, and internalized vs. externalized problems; on populations, including homeless youth, residential care-leavers, refugees, asylum-seekers, young women coming from vulnerable families, and school dropouts; and interventions to promote these youths' mentoring relationships, labor market attainment, out-of-home living placements, use of IT communication, and participation in community-based programs. Additionally, various problems and challenges are presented and elaborated on, such as: Who needs support? Who is qualified to provide support? How should related interventions be developed? The book takes a preventive approach and aims to emphasize steps that can be taken in order to promote young people’s positive development in spite of the absence of a family to rely on in their life and examines the best practices in this context, as well as the international lessons that deserve further dissemination and exploration.</p><p>This book is essential reading for those in psychology, sociology, public health, social work, law, criminology, public policy, economics, and education and is highly enriching for scholars and practitioners, as well as higher education students, who wish to understand and help the gradually increasing number of youth who are forced, too early, to manage their life alone. </p> <p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Foreword</p><p>List of Contributors</p><p><strong>Part I: Foreword</strong></p><p>1. Those who we expect to be "self-made adults"</p><p>Moshe Israelashvili & Shula Mozes</p><p>Part II: Topics</p><p>2. Sources of social support: Improving outcomes for transition-age foster youth</p><p>Loring P. Jones</p><p>3. Finding a Sense of Belonging in the Absence of Family</p><p>Kelly-Ann Allen, Emily Berger, Tim Campbell, Margaret U'Ren, & Michelle L. Andrews</p><p>4. Future orientation: Where there is a will there is a way</p><p><em>Rachel Seginer</em></p><p>5. Family Support and Young Adult Labor Market Attainment</p><p><em>Stacy Bluth & Anna Manzoni</em></p><p>6. The transition to adulthood among young people in residential care: A review of the determinants of emancipation processes in Spain</p><p>Albert Cabellos Vidal, Josep Lluís Oliver Torelló, Jorge Fernández del Valle, & Joan Amer Fernández</p><p>7. Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Care Leavers during the Transition to Adulthood: Contributions and Challenges</p><p>Yafit Sulimani-Aidan</p><p>8. Positive Youth Development: A Platform for a University Training Experience</p><p>Carmen Orte, María Valero de Vicente, Margarita Vives Barceló, Belén Pascual Barrio, & Lidia Sánchez-Prieto</p><p>9. Is there a family to lean on? An intersectional approach to parent involvement in their children’s schooling </p><p>Audrey Addi-Raccah</p><p>10. Who will get the most of the intervention program? <em>Lamerhav's</em> explorations of ways to identify youth in need for further support</p><p>Natan Gelman & Shula Mozes</p><p>Part III: Populations</p><p>11. Residential care-leaving in the Global South: A review of the current literature</p><p>Kwabena Frimpong-Manso</p><p>12. Need-centered support for young refugees in Germany </p><p>Hannes Reinke, Tobias Kärner, & Tobias Ringeisen</p><p>13. The Life of an Island Child – Where are the Parents? </p><p>Janique. N Charles</p><p>14. Homeless Youth in India </p><p>Solomon Ranati & Shreeletha Solomon</p><p>15. An inclusive and Sustainable future life for Young Asylum-Seekers</p><p>Di Maggio Ilaria, Santilli Sara, Ginevra Maria Cristina & Nota Laura</p><p>16. Leaving the Yeshiva High School and Losing Parental Support: The Case of Male Ultra-Orthodox Dropout in Israel</p><p>Itzhaki-Braun, Yael & Yablon, Yacob</p><p>Part IV: Programs</p><p>17. Wraparound: An Adaptable, Promising Intervention to Support Isolated Youth or those At-Risk </p><p>Lucy Rose Lightfoot, Ian de Terte, Kirsty Ross, Richard Etheredge, & Ruth A. Gammon</p><p>18. Young Latin American women with vulnerable families: A program promoting positive development and opportunities</p><p>Dina Krauskopf Roger & Sharling Hernández</p><p>19. IT communication tools and techniques to support the coming of age: A focus on children and youth in childcare </p><p>Andrea Rácz, Ernő Bogács, & Marianna Jonkl</p><p>20. The Foster Youth Success Campaign </p><p>Dione Milan K. Washington</p><p>21. Polish youth with limited family support: Externalizing and internalizing problems</p><p>Krzysztof Ostaszewski, Agnieszka Pisarska, Krzysztof Bobrowski & Jakub Greń</p><p>22. From Welfare Dependence to Independence: Orr-Shalom programs for graduates of out-of-home living placements </p><p>Yair Medalion, Sharon Levin, Yana Kadosh, & Nurit Yirmiya</p><p>23. The ‘Building My Future’ community-based intervention program to promote youth development in adolescents at psychosocial risk </p><p>Chloe García-Poole, Sonia Byrne & María José Rodrigo</p><p>24. "Lamerhav" – an Israeli program for Young Adults without Family Support </p><p>Shula Mozes</p><p><strong>Part V: Afterword </strong></p><p>25. Emerging needs in the context of youth with no family to lean on <em>Shula Mozes & Moshe Israelashvili</em></p><p>Index </p>