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A Roadmap for Learning: Improving Educational Outcomes in Foster Care
January 15, 2014
A Road Map for Learning is a guide for everyone working towards successful educational outcomes for youth in foster care or out-of-home care. The book provides a framework for achieving collaboration across the federal, state, and local legal, educational, and child welfare systems. Emphasizing the needs of K–12 students, it contains resources for parents, caregivers, teachers, and child welfare professionals.
Type: Resource
TAG: Using Data
promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education
channels: Expanded Learning Time
SOURCE: Casey Family Programs
Supporting Success: Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Students from Foster Care (2.0)
January 15, 2014
College provides an opportunity for young people to secure good jobs, advance in their careers, achieve economic independence and build important social networks. For youth from foster care, college can mean freedom from their past and the ability to choose a future rich with possibilities.
Type: Resource
TAG: Special Populations, Youth Involvement
promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education
channels: College & Career, Thriving, Youth Involvement
SOURCE: Casey Family Programs
It’s My Life: Employment
January 15, 2014
Career and employment success for young people from foster care is part of a journey connecting parents, caregivers, friends, mentors, advocates, communities, schools, and employers. Specific tools and strategies can help. This practical, concise handbook is intended for child welfare professionals and others responsible for helping young people prepare for transition to adulthood and the workplace. It provides benchmarks for career exploration (by age group) and techniques for job seeking and lets young people describe their successes in their own words.
Type: Resource
promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education
channels: College & Career
SOURCE: Casey Family Programs