Abstract
Youth who receive services from public mental health, child welfare and delinquency, and homeless systems are often exposed to a number of overlapping child, family, school, and community risk factors. Minimal research, however, has focused on the extent to which single- or multiple-system involvement influences school dropout. Relying on an integrated data set, the associations between single- and multiple-system utilization and risk for dropping out, or actually dropping out of school, among youth in Grades 7 through 9 were examined. Results showed dropout rates more than doubled among public youth system users compared with those in the overall sample. With a few exceptions, use of combinations of services systems translated into somewhat higher likelihoods of dropping out of school when compared with single-system use. Future research is warranted to identify the underlying processes by which single- and multiple-system involvement influences school dropout rates.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1041-1073 |
Number of pages | 33 |
Journal | Journal of Early Adolescence |
Volume | 38 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2017.
Keywords
- academic achievement
- at-risk/high-risk populations
- deviance/delinquency/truancy
- education
- inner city/urban
- mental health
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science
- Life-span and Life-course Studies