Conference: Transitioning into Adulthood: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy
October 25-26, 2007. Victoria BC
This conference featured speakers from Canada, the United States, and New Zealand, and focused on the key issues in making healthy transitions to adulthood, including the influence of residence, family support, gender, and culture on this transition.
Presentations are currently unavailable online; sorry.
Day 1 Presentations
Day 1 of the conference featured a variety of presenters. You can click the names of presenters below for biographical information, and view their presentations in PDF or PPT format by following the appropriate links.
- Gillian Abel: On a Fast-track into adulthood: an exploration of transitions into adulthood for street-based sex workers in New Zealand. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Steve Arnett: Transitions into Adulthood: The NYSA Experience, Past, Present and Future. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Gordon Barnes: Substance Use Trajectories in Youth from Biological and Adoptive Families. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- James Côté: Youth Inclusion/Exclusion in Canada: Estimating Probabilities for At-Risk Transitions to Adulthood. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Lisa Fitzgerald: "I'm on my own now in so many ways": the role of social resources in emerging adulthood for young people who have experienced foster care in New Zealand. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Mikael Jansson: A Different Path to Adulthood: The Case of Street Involved Youth. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Harvey Krahn: Leaving home to become an adult? Ethno-cultural differences in the transition to adulthood. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Bill McCarthy: Youth, Sex, and Crime. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Deb Rutman & Carol Hubberstey: Ageing out of Foster Care: Transition or Expulsion. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- John Schulenberg : Drug Use and the Transition to Adulthood as Moving Targets: Historical and Developmental Trends. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
Day 2 Presentations
Day 2 continued with more presentations by renowned researchers. You can click the names of presenters below for biographical information, and view their presentations in PDF or PPT format by following the appropriate links.
- Elizabeth Banister: Transitioning into Adulthood: Implications for Sexual Health Education. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Frank Floyd: The Transition to Adulthood for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Nancy Galambos: Gender and Trajectories of Anger and Depression in the Transition to Adulthood. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Barbara Mitchell: Gradients of Advantage/ Disadvantage: Gendered Dynamics and Family-Related Transitions to Adulthood. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Indira Prahst: Youth Transitions into Adulthood & Intercultural issues. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
- Annie Smith: What youth have to tell us about healthy transitions to adulthood. View: [.pdf|.ppt]
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