Jan Storø is an Associate Professor of Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Child Welfare Bachelor Program. He worked with young people and children in care from 1975 to 1999, mostly as a leader of residential units and was leader of The Norwegian Leaving Care Project (1999-2002) and the MST Treatment Unit of Oslo (2002-05). Storø is author of five books on the transition from care to adulthood and social pedagogy and a wide range of articles on topics connected to child welfare.