INTRAC invited its members to create short (5-minutes) videos about themselves and their work, together with keywords that capture the essence of their work. To search this list for videos that are relevant to your work, press Ctrl+F on your keyboard and type a keyword. This will locate the videos with that keyword.
| Name & Link | Country | Key words |
| Alderson, Hayley | UK | Substance misuse, mental health, looked after children, qualitative, behaviour change |
| Bengtsson, Mattias | Sweden | Longitudinal studies, qualitative research, resilience, life course theory, agency |
| Berejena Mhongera, Pamhidzayi | Zimbabwe | institutional care, transitions, livelihood outcomes, adolescent girls |
| Bond, Sue | South Africa | possible selves, future focus, resilience, South Africa, methodology, social work, social work practice, postgraduate, study, student, University of Johannesburg |
| Doucet, Melanie | Canada | social support; relationships; support network; social capital |
| Dubéchot, Patrick James,Samuel Kerivel, Aude Dheilly, Cyril VIPS, Laboratoire Vysotskaya, Volha | France | social capital, foster care, children, children’s village, foster care, research-action |
| García Alba, Laura | Spain | life skills, residential care, intervention |
| Goebbels, Petra | UK | cross-national comparison, suicidal ideation, IPTS, coping, mixed methods |
| Greeson, Johanna | USA | social support; natural mentoring; intervention research; COVID19; pandemic |
| Gullo, Federica | Spain | transition to adulthood from care, residential care, foster care, intervention, care experiences, semi-structured interviews, self-esteem, wellbeing, life skills. |
| Gwenzi, Getrude | South Africa | Zimbabwe, family meanings |
| Gyourko, John | USA | risk and resilience factors impacting transitions from foster care to adulthood; fraud victimization and credit utilization among current and former foster youth; experiences of foster youth during COVID-19; Adult functioning and life outcomes of foster care alumni |
| Incarnato, Mariana Rodriguez, Florencia | Argentina | policies, strategies, actions, transition, residential care system, Latin American countries |
| Keller, Samuel Thomas, Gabriel Werner, Karin Stohler, Renate Brahmann, Jessica | Switzerland | Leaving care research (foster care, residential care, Unaccompanied minors, adoption); Qualitative, narrative approaches (biographical approach, life-course perspective, multiperspective, comparative research, turning points); Ethical methodological reflection; (inter) subjective meaning of transition; implementation of results into policy and practice |
| King-Jordan, Taniko | USA | Alumni foster youth; transitional age foster youth; ethnography |
| Kole, John | Australia | Unaccompanied asylum seeker minors; social welfare; risk and protective factors; resilience; well-being |
| Losantos Velasco, Marcela | Bolivia | transit conditions ; Bolivia |
| Manninen, Marko | Finland | Psychology, researcher, conduct problems, intervention, After reform school study |
| Mendes, Philip | Australia | Extending care, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) care leavers, housing pathways, comparative work |
| Modi, Kiran | India | Care experienced youth, housing, education, interpersonal skills |
| Montserrat, Carme Crous, Gemma | Spain | 25-35 years old; mental health problems; intellectual disabilities; housing program |
| Niang, Anta | Canada | Social psychology; interactional justice; decision making process; transition to adulthood |
| Niiranen, Janette | Finland | Social psychology, PhD student, researcher, agency, reform school |
| Okpych, Nathanael | USA | Foster youth; foster care; higher education; college; social networks; social support |
| Oterholm, Inger | Norway | Foster parents; aftercare; adult vs child services |
| Paul, John | USA | identity capital model, ecomapping, narrative approach, stigma, college, emerging adulthood, mentoring |
| Pedro Gaspar, João | Portugal | Transition; Education; Holistic intervention; Non-profit association; Portugal |
| Perez, Luciana Cassarino | Brazil | residential care; Brazil |
| Purtell, Jade | Australia | care leaver early parenting; relationship-based practice; youth participation; trauma-informed care; extended care; holistic support; inclusive and empowering practice; evidence-informed; co-design and co-implementation; participatory research approaches |
| Reason, Patrick | Brazil | public policies; Brazil |
| Refaeli, Tehila | Israel | resilience, longitudinal, mix-methods, coping, struggle, intimate relationships, parenthood |
| Sala Roca, Josefina | Spain | transition; care leavers; aging out; indicators; employability skills; socioemotional skills |
| Salazar, Amy | Canada | higher education; postsecondary access; postsecondary retention; LGBTQ+; foster care; aging out; evidence-based practice; intervention development; intervention adaptation; program evaluation; trauma; child maltreatment; PTSD |
| Smart, Debbie | UK | edge of care, innovation, intervention |
| Storø, Jan | Norway | Welfare model; History of leaving care; Theory; Interdependence; Transition |
| Strahl, Benjamin | Germany | Leaving care research and practice development, (higher) education, qualitative (narrative) approaches, empowerment and care-leaver (self-)organisations, international comparison of policies and practice, ethical reflections |
| Sulimani-Aidan, Yafit | Israel | at risk young adults, resilience, transition to adulthood, mentoring, future expectations, life skills, coping, hope |
| van Breda, Adrian | South Africa | social ecological resilience; longitudinal methods; mixed methods; care leaving outcomes; crime; employment; NEET; housing; accommodation; health; education |
| Zeller, Maren Hengstler, Pia | Switzerland | Leaving Care Research and Practice Development, Unaccompanied Minors as Care Leavers, Agency, Strengthening Care Leavers’ Rights, Family-Based Support |
If you’d like to add your video to the collection, please prepare your video using the guidelines here and submit it online here: https://forms.gle/um3fteUxvzbbdwRN7
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