%0 Journal Article
%T Patterns of Multisystem Service Use and School Dropout Among Seventh
%A Antonio R. Garcia
%A Chin-Chih Chen
%A Dennis P. Culhane
%A Frank F. Furstenberg
%A Jung Min Park
%A Stephen Metraux
%J The Journal of Early Adolescence
%@ 1552-5449
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0272431617714329
%X 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
%K academic achievement
%K at-risk/high-risk populations
%K deviance/delinquency/truancy
%K education
%K inner city/urban
%K mental health
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272431617714329