Poor education and employment outcomes have long been associated with care experienced young people transitioning into independence, even after adjusting for prior disadvantage. In the United Kingdom, such young people are generally referred to as care leavers. Policies that aim to reduce the gap between care leavers and non-care experienced young people's success transitioning to employment and independence have had limited success. This paper draws on a qualitative methodology that utilized theories of resilience, to glean a range of perspectives from both care leavers and their employers. All the participants were engaged in a U.K. local authority's initiative to support care leavers into employment. Drawing on resilience theory, resilience was found to be located in a complex interaction between a resilience enabling environment and, crucially, emotionally supportive networks. Uniquely, we argue that emotional support, drawn from such networks, is the key factor that facilitates young people navigating towards such resources, leading to successful outcomes. Previous studies have underplayed this aspect in favour of more tangible resources. Attention to strengthening emotional support networks is thus identified as a significant factor that supports transition to employment and successful independence for care leavers.

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工作和适应力：护理人员在就业和独立方面的经验

长期以来，即使在调整了先前的劣势之后，糟糕的教育和就业结果也与经历过护理的年轻人过渡到独立有关。在英国，这些年轻人通常被称为护理人员。旨在缩小离开护理人员与没有护理经验的年轻人成功过渡到就业和独立之间差距的政策取得了有限的成功。本文借鉴了一种利用弹性理论的定性方法，从护理人员及其雇主那里收集了一系列观点。所有参与者都参与了英国地方当局的一项倡议，以支持护理人员就业。借鉴复原力理论，发现复原力位于复原力有利环境和，至关重要的是，情感支持网络。独特的是，我们认为，从此类网络中获得的情感支持是促进年轻人获取此类资源并取得成功结果的关键因素。以前的研究低估了这方面的影响，而倾向于使用更多有形资源。因此，重视加强情感支持网络被认为是支持护理人员过渡到就业和成功独立的重要因素。