GRANT FOCUS: Youth Safety, Sexual Violence, Domestic Violence, Stalking, Higher Education | Amount: Up to $750,000 | Deadline: Feb. 12, 2020
GRANT FOCUS: Youth Well-Being, College, Campus Health, Safety, Higher Education | Amount: $3,500 | Deadline: Feb. 1, 2020
Earlier this year we wrote a column in Youth Today about the barriers faced by college students who had experienced homelessness or...
In the past few years, the pathways and lives of adults with experience in foster care have increasingly been a prominent concern...
The Urban Institute explores the effects and reception of the recent Kansas campus carry legislation by collecting data and speaking with higher...
Two sisters illustrate two different paths through foster care. Melody McLaurin emancipated herself from foster care at 18 and received benefits from...
Julia, 16, a high school senior in Alpharetta, Ga., knows where she wants to go to college: It’s Georgia State University in...
Liz Burns, 22, was in the middle of a crazy-busy time at college. But, for some reason, she couldn’t stop thinking about...
With growing awareness of the challenges young people with experience in foster care face in accessing and completing college, it is more...
More first-generation, low-income students and students of color, including youth in foster care, are enrolling in college than ever before. However, youth...
It has been a long haul for Melvin Lasiloo to get from where he started to attending community college classes in his...
Imagine we could make sure that every young person transitioning out of foster care was able to graduate from high school and...
Owing to increased attention during recent decades, few professionals who are interested in the well-being of youth remain unaware of the challenges...
By the time she turned 6, Jessica Reese had been sexually abused repeatedly. Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services took Reese and...
Students who have experienced foster care or homelessness are often doing it all: managing complicated and ever-changing family situations, carrying out adult-level...
For the past 13 years I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of students who enroll at our university. It...
While many high school seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges across the country this spring, young people who have experienced foster care...
Foster youth who identify as LGBTQ face significantly more hurdles in their educational path, experiencing harassment, homelessness and depression at higher rates,...
Having relationships with resourceful, knowledgeable individuals is important for the college success of young people with foster care histories. Put more simply,...
Youth in foster care face a multitude of barriers when it comes to higher education. How will they pay for room, board,...