I’m very pleased to present the 2017 research outputs of ANCR members. We have 19 publications, masters or doctoral dissertations and conference papers, coming from Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. This is a great accomplishment, increasing the Africa footprint in international research on care-leaving.

A complete list of publications from Africa is available under the Literature link.

1. Bond, S. (2017). Developing the possible-selves of young people leaving care as contributors to resilience: The role of the child and youth care community. Paper presented at the Pathways to Resilience IV Conference, Cape Town, RSA.
2. Bond, S. (2017). The development of possible selves and resilience in youth transitioning out of care. Doctoral thesis, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, RSA.
3. Dickens, L. F. (2017). One year outcomes of youth leaving residential care in South Africa. Paper presented at the Social Work Conference 2017, Johannesburg, RSA.
4. Dickens, L. F. (2017 online). One-year outcomes of youth exiting a residential care facility in South Africa. Child & Family Social Work. doi: 10.1111/cfs.12411
5. Dziro, C. (2017). The protection of children in neoliberal Zimbabwe: A comparative study of kinship based foster care and institutional care for orphans and other vulnerable children. Paper presented at the Social Work Conference 2017, Johannesburg, RSA.
6. Frimpong-Manso, K. (2017). Building and utilizing community resilience: Experiences of young people leaving care out-of-home care in Ghana. Paper presented at the Pathways to Resilience IV Conference, Cape Town, RSA.
7. Frimpong-Manso, K. A. (2017). The social support networks of care leavers from a children’s village in Ghana: Formal and informal supports. Child & Family Social Work, 22(1), 195-202. doi: 10.1111/cfs.12218
8. Hlungwani, J. (2017). Young women’s journey towards successful independent living after leaving residential care. Masters dissertation, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, RSA.
9. Jacobs, G., & Edwards, M. (2017). Young people moving out and moving on: What it takes to support young people leaving care? Paper presented at the Pathways to Resilience IV Conference, Cape Town, RSA.
10. Marx, P., & Dickens, L. F. (2017). Leaving care: The challenges of preparation. Paper presented at the NACCW 21th Biennial Conference, Kimberly, RSA.
11. Mhongera, P. B., & Lombard, A. (2017). Who is there for me? Evaluating the social support received by adolescent girls transitioning from institutional care in Zimbabwe. Practice, 29(1), 19-35. doi: 10.1080/09503153.2016.1185515
12. Mmusi, F. I., & Van Breda, A. D. (2017). Care-leavers’ transfer of social skills from care into independent living in South Africa. Children and Youth Services Review, 81, 350-357.
13. Moodley, R. (2017). Deliberating ethical issues and structural factors influencing services appropriate for youth transitioning out of care: An Afrocentric perspective. Paper presented at the Social Work Conference 2017, Johannesburg, RSA.
14. Takele, A. M. (2017). Transitioning to adulthood: Examining aging out of care experiences of adolescent girls in Addis Ababa: The case of Kechene Female Children and Youth Institutional Child Care and Rehabilitation Center. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
15. Van Breda, A. D. (2017). Care-leaving research in Africa. Paper presented at the INTRAC Meeting, Oslo, Norway.
16. Van Breda, A. D. (2017). Grounded theory methods for insights into resilience processes: The case of a young person transitioning out of residential care. Paper presented at the Pathways to Resilience IV Conference, Cape Town, RSA.
17. Van Breda, A. D. (2017). Pathways out of care: Comparisons between Africa and the Global North. Paper presented at the Social Work Conference 2017, Johannesburg, RSA.
18. Van Breda, A. D. (2017). The Youth Ecological-Resilience Scale: A partial validation. Research on Social Work Practice, 27(2), 248-257. doi: 10.1177/1049731516651731
19. Van Breda, A. D., & Dickens, L. F. (2017). The contribution of resilience to one-year independent living outcomes of care-leavers in South Africa. Children and Youth Services Review, 83, 264-273.