Easing the Transition: The Role of Foster Parents The advocacy project Morgan Simpson and I completed took a closer look at the transitory period foster youth face when they age out of the foster care system. Upon their eighteenth birthday‚ unless they sign a Continuing Residential Support (CARS) Agreement or join the LINKS program‚ foster youth are considered legal adults no longer under the care of the State. This means that all the services they were receiving—housing‚ medical‚ mental health
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------------------------------------------------- VIETNAM – Transition throughout the years Background: Vietnam was conquered by France in 1884 and became part of French Indochina in 1887. It was declared independent after World War II‚ but still ruled by France until 1954; eventually dividing into Communist North and anti-Communist South (led by the Americans). Planned Economy: In 1975 North Vietnam overran the South‚ and reuniting Vietnam under the Communist rule. This is technically the first transition of the economy. The
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Transitions to Democracy: An Analysis of Romania in Linz and Stepan’s "Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation" Linz and Stepan’s chapter on Romania in their book‚ "Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation" is a complete and well done analysis of the transition of the Romanian government after the death of Ceausescu and the effects of Ceausescu’s sultanistic reign on that transition. Throughout the chapter‚ Linz and Stepan attempt to answer the question they postulate in
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by a lack of fertility in addition to the low death rate and increasingly elder population the US has become one of the only few to be a part of stage four in the traditional demographic transition model developed by Warren Thompson in 1929. A large part to being in stage four of the DTM‚ or demographic transition model‚ can be related back to the baby boomer generation‚ increased healthcare‚ and new technology widely available to the public of all demographics in the United States population. Highly
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TRANSITIONS A transition is any significant stage or experience in the life of a child or young person that has a bearing on their behaviour and/or development. TRANSITONS: Emotional Intellectual Physiological Physical Children and young people naturally pass through a number of stages as they grow and develop. Often being expected to be able cope with these changes. Some children may have to face very particular and personal transitions not necessarily shared or understood by their
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Military to Civilian Transition Its six months before your military retirement date. You have made several preparations for your transition into the civilian world. The one thing you want to do is make sure you have all the checks in the block so that you have a smooth transition where you do not have to worry about anything after you have gone on terminal leave. Even though through the leadership and management styles picked up through a military career‚ you think you are ready to step out in
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for women to know what menopause is and what to expect when it happens. When a women knows what to expect it may help her in coping with the transitions of menopause. There are many season of life and menopause has been associated with aging and growing old. Another way to look at the “change of life” is as a time of growth and ripening. Life Transition of Menopause One of the most common fears in woman today is the fear of aging. Our society has come up with various ways of trying to stay
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and 1997 changed in 2004 creating a few amendments. These transitions assessments were affected by several changes which increased the accountability of districts and states by changing the definition of transition services to coordinated set of activities “designed within a results-oriented” process. The change from “outcome-oriented” to “results-oriented” stressed the importance of identifying the postsecondary results of transition services and activities at the secondary level. Another significant
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including transitions‚ which may affect development. 3 Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development 3.1 Identify the transitions experienced by most children and young people: Transition could either be a stage or an experience that can affect the behavior or development of a child or young person. Every child experience transitions at various stages of their life. Listed below are some of the transitions experience
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case of hunting and gathering societies like the Inuit or !Kung San hunters‚ a “great bulk of food supplies and other energy resources had to be obtained from the immediate local environment”‚ (Pelto et al.‚ 1983: 354). In Barry Popkin’s Nutrition Transition model‚ these groups would be represented by the first stage: collecting food. The populations represented in this stage of Popkin’s nutritional framework are characterized by their hunting and gathering methods of subsistence. Since hunting in local
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