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Ready to Succeed:
Changing Systems to Give California’s Foster Children the
Opportunities They Deserve to be Ready for and Succeed in
School.
Recommendations and Implementation Strategies
from
The California Education Collaborative for Children in Foster Care, The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning and
Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. (2008)
Summarizes status of students in foster care, including grade, ethnicity, gender, retention rates, achievement test scores, and other relevant data.
The book provides a modular 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.
Improving Educational Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care: Perspectives from Judges and Program Specialists, National
Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Reno, Nevada (2002)
Presents current practices aimed at addressing the educational needs of youth in care and areas needing improvement.
Non-Regulatory Guidance to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, Amended July 2004 The act ensures that children are entitled to continued enrollment in their home school or immediate enrollment in a new school. It also provides a stream of federal funding for an array of supports including, but not limited to, tutoring, transportation and cash assistance. Communities nationwide have applied McKinney-Vento eligibility to young people who have run away from a foster home, group home or other placement and to children in a number of temporary living arrangements including shelter, foster homes, group homes and evaluation centers.
McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act: Tips for Accessing Educational Supports for Youth in Out-of-Home Care, Child Welfare League of America
Tips for Accessing Educational Supports for Youth in Out-of-Home Care is a two-page summary and overview of the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act with links to a complete copy of the legislation and the latest guidance from the Department of Education.
Asking the Right Questions: A Judicial Checklist to Ensure That the Educational Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care Are Being Addressed, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Reno, Nevada. (2005)
Provides a field-tested checklist that judges can use to make inquiries regarding the educational needs of children and youth under their jurisdiction with the goal of positively impacting their educational outcomes and preparing them for adulthood.
The Vera Institute of Justice, Foster Children and Education: How You Can Create a Positive Educational Experience for the Foster Child
When it comes to succeeding in school, foster children face unique challenges and obstacles that have them lagging behind their peers. The Vera Institute has developed this kit, for use by caseworkers and educators. It offers some simple, inexpensive lessons and tools that can enhance the educational experience of children in foster care.
Marni Finkelstein, Mark Wamsley, and Doreen Miranda, What Keeps Children in Foster Care from Succeeding in School? Views of Early Adolescents and the Adults in Their Lives, The Vera Institute of Justice (July 2002)
As a group, children in foster care struggle academically. Researchers interviewed 25 foster children and 54 of the adults in their lives to better understand how being in foster care affects a child's education, and how adults can help them succeed in school.
Dylan Conger and Alison Rebeck, How Children's Foster Care Experiences Affect Their Education, The Vera Institute (December 2001)
Using a combined database of school and child welfare records for more than 16,000 foster children, researchers considered the impact of such factors as length of stay in care, type of foster home, history of running away, and reason for entering foster care on children's educational experiences. Foster care had a strong effect on children's attendance and school transfers but only minor effects on their reading and math test scores.
Kathleen McNaught and Lauren Onkeles, Improving Outcomes for Older Youth
What Judges and Attorneys Need to Know, National Resource Center for Youth Development (2004)
The National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development in conjunction with American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law have released a new publication for use by judges, attorneys, and youth advocates around the country. The guide covers issues in housing, health, education, employment, undocumented youth, parenting youth, and tribal youth, among others.
Guide to Special Education Advocacy for Resource Families, Casey Family Programs (2001)This 20-page guide, produced in 2001, outlines those benefits provided under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. In addition, it offers practical tips for effective advocacy, reviews the functions of caretakers acting as parents for a child, summarizes the principal procedural protections in IDEA, and provides a review of the processes for dispute resolution.
Interagency Agreement Between the School Board of Broward County, Florida, and the Department of Children and Families, District 10, Evaluation Report, 2002-03
School Board of Broward County, Florida. Florida. Dept. of Children and Families. District 10.
Technical Report
Pam and Pete Wright, From Emotions to Advocacy, 2d ed. (Harbor House Law Press 2006)
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