The plan of main measures for implementing the Decade of Childhood until 2027 in Russia provides, among other things, for the development of a system of post-internship support for children left without parental care. At present, due to the lack of a functioning system, the tasks of post-internship support are performed mainly by educational institutions where young people continue their studies. Determining the necessary tools that create the basis for successful social adaptation of graduates is possible by analyzing the systems of post-internship support in different countries, which was the purpose of this study. We chose Sweden, Norway, Great Britain as the states with a developed system of social support for orphans and Romania as a post-Soviet state to evaluate the Western experience; the analysis of the Asian experience is based on the practices of India and China as the countries with the largest number of orphans. The study reveals that the most pronounced obstacles in solving the problem of successful social adaptation include insufficient development of the regulatory and legal framework for post-internship support, lack of effective technologies for long-term work with graduates, lack of interagency cooperation in the activities of services. Western countries focus attention on socio-psychological aspects of leaving care, which is reflected in a developed system of counseling. Countries with a predominant institutional system for children without parental care offer more specific measures of post-internship support. At the same time, the lack of socio-psychological support for graduates and its continuity between social pedagogues in orphanages and staff in educational institutions is a major problem
Keywords
orphans, post-internship support, family life placement, foster family