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All posts tagged "foster care education project"
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayWe Must Change the Narrative About College With Youth Who Have Experienced Foster Care
While many high school seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges across the country this spring, young people who have experienced foster care...
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3.2KNewsLGBTQ Youth in Foster Care See Higher Roadblocks Than Others in System
Foster youth who identify as LGBTQ face significantly more hurdles in their educational path, experiencing harassment, homelessness and depression at higher rates,...
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayRight Relationships Crucial to Help Foster Youth Get Into, Through College
Having relationships with resourceful, knowledgeable individuals is important for the college success of young people with foster care histories. Put more simply,...
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13.6KNewsAs More Schools Aid Foster Students, Data on Results Needed, Researchers Say
Youth in foster care face a multitude of barriers when it comes to higher education. How will they pay for room, board,...
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24.4KGuest Opinion EssayYouth Aging Out of Foster Care Need a Runway, Not a Cliff
Toni should be celebrating. She’s part of a rarified group — the 10 percent of students at four-year public colleges who graduate...
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4.1KNewsFormer Foster Youth Working at Louisiana Legislature Help Promote Extending Care
Move over oil and gas power brokers. Take a seat, criminal justice advocates. The most influential lobbyists in Louisiana’s statehouse may be...
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2.4KNewsFoster Students Struggle to Get Financial Aid, Advice for College
“I view myself as a lone wolf. You can be around people but still feel very much alone,” said Gianni Cuevas, who...
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7.5KGuest Opinion EssayYouth in Foster Care Need More Support in Transition to College
Going through the foster care system isn’t easy, but what happens to youth as they begin to transition into life outside foster...
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4.4KGuest Opinion EssayCalifornia Legislation Eases Access to Financial Aid, Support for Foster Students
Young people from foster care face significant challenges when it comes to transitioning into independent adulthood. Research shows that foster youth take...
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayWe Can Close Poor Students’ Gap With Better Trauma-informed Education
The New York Foundling has been protecting children and strengthening families for nearly 150 years and is now one of oldest and...
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12.7KNewsCalifornia Foster Students Get Patchwork of College Support
The shops are beginning to come alive on a Monday morning as Yamina Inzunza arrives at a coffee shop popular with college...
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3.6KNewsApprenticeships For Youth Now Have National Momentum
Da’Sean Harrison, 22, has ambitions to be a general contractor, a master of all trades. Now working on a construction job in...
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4.5KNewsWashington State Leader in Paying for Apprenticeships for Youth in Foster Care
What many consider routine and the direct path to college can be a quagmire for traumatized youth in foster care.
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3.6KGuest Opinion EssayHigher Education for Youth in Care Must Be A Higher Priority for Child Welfare
In an op-ed of mine Youth Today published in March, I challenged the child welfare community to think more expansively about our...
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10.7KNewsWhat’s Hindering Most Youth in Foster Care From Studying After High School?
Early on, many youth in foster care develop a certain resourcefulness that allows them to navigate thorny situations and push through layers...
