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Youth Transitions Out of State Care

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Youth Transitions Out of State Care: Being Recognized as Worthy of Care, Respect, and Support

by

Natalie Glynn

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the memory of Christian (pseudonym), a young man with much promise and ambition who generously shared his life with me throughout the year before his untimely death in 2018.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

No man is an island, entire of itself.

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less,

As well as if a promontory were,

As well as if a manor of thy friends

Or of thine own were.

Any man's death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind.

And, therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.

— John Donne

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About the Author

Natalie Glynn is a Lecturer and Research Officer in the Comparative Public Policy Research Group at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen. She was a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar for the Irish Research Council from 2016 to 2019. She has also worked as an Evaluation Fellow at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Prior to entering research, she was a sixth-grade science teacher at Todd County Middle School in Mission, South Dakota on the Rosebud Reservation, where she developed a passion for working with young people.

Acknowledgments

First, I would like to acknowledge the young women and men who participated in this study, without whom this work would not be possible. You shared your lives and stories with me, for which I am honored and appreciative. I would also like to thank the numerous professionals who gave of their time and supported me in making contact with the participants. Their efforts may often feel unseen, but I will forever remember their good works.

Second, there are many colleagues and academic sources of support that helped this book come to fruition. My doctoral supervisor, Dr. Paula Mayock, who took on a novice researcher from another continent with not much more to go on than an email, saw promise in me and my ideas, for which I am forever grateful. My current supervisor, Dr. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser saw fit to support me in publishing this work as a book, giving advice and encouragement throughout the proposal stage and writing process. I am also indebted to the careful reading, kind words, and thoughtful conversations of many friends at 30 Anglesea Street. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the funding that made this research possible. The School of Social Work and Social Policy first invested in my ideas through a studentship. Then, the Irish Research Council also saw merit in the work, funding the final three years.

Last, but certainly not least, I must acknowledge the loving support of my partner, Paul Wix. Having met on the beach of Inis Mór in the early days of my doctoral studies, our relationship has been a bulwark for me through the ebbs and flows of writing this book. I can say with certainty that without you I would not have finished, and I will be forever grateful for your companionship and care.