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This report analyses 1,804 care leaver responses collected in 21 English local authorities between 2017 and 2019.
Over the past five years, the authors have collected over 10,000 care-experienced voices through the Your Life Beyond Care and the Your Life, Your Care surveys. Children in care and care leavers expressed how they felt about their lives and what they have shared gives an unprecedented insight into their subjective well-being.
Since the analysis for this report, understanding well-being has become ever more important. Although care leavers’ responses were collected before the…
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Purpose: This study examines whether former foster youth are more likely to stop out of a 4-year university than low-income, first-generation students who did not experience out-of-home care. Method: Data were from a stratified random sample of 803 students enrolled at a large, public 4-year university in the Midwest over a 10-year period, including 438 former wards of the court who were identified on the Federal Application for Student Aid and a comparison group of 365 low-income, first-generation college students who did not identify as court…
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The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting communities worldwide, with direct effects of illness and mortality, and indirect effects on economies, workplaces, schools/daycares, and social life. However, we understand very little about the effects of this pandemic on families of young children. We used a risk and resilience model to evaluate the effects of the pandemic on mental health in diverse caregivers (N = 286) with children ages birth to 5. We evaluated the hypotheses that (a) pandemic stress and caregiver-reported child psychosocial concerns correlate with caregivers…
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Background
Children involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) have been shown to have lower academic achievement. It is unclear whether certain qualities of the home environment can optimize academic achievement in this vulnerable population.
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This study sought to determine whether home environments with higher levels of emotional support and cognitive stimulation predict later academic achievement and whether this relationship is moderated by placement type (i.e. biological/adoptive parent care, kinship care, or non-kinship foster care).
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Homeless young adults (HYA) with and without a history in foster care in the United States experience lower high school graduation rates than young adults in the general population. Few studies examine the risk and resilience factors that promote positive educational outcomes for these subpopulations. This study explores the factors that are associated with positive educational outcomes for HYA with and without a foster care history. This study uses data from a 3-city cross-sectional study of HYA, which included quantitative interviews of HYA between the ages of 18 and 24 (N…
This brief article from Student Affairs Today highlights some of the lessons learned by student affairs professionals regarding foster care support programs at higher education institutions in the United States in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
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The school environment can be a haven for treatment foster children to build social connections, develop academic skills, and experience measures of achievement that promote confidence and efficacy. In order to better attain positive school outcomes foster parents and school agents must value their respective roles and intentionally collaborate within the guidelines of federal policy.
The existent literature tends to focus minimally on the role of treatment foster parents in promoting school success for foster children even though federal legislation provides a robust…
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Education and Training Vouchers (ETVs) and campus support programs (CSPs) are two interventions designed to support postsecondary education persistence for college students with foster care backgrounds. The federal ETV program provides foster youth up to $5,000 per year for college expenses, while CSPs provide an array of on-the-ground services to foster youth enrolled in a college. The ETV program and CSPs have existed for nearly two decades, yet little research has evaluated their impacts on postsecondary education outcomes. This study draws on data from the [STUDY] and the…
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This case explores the complex ways unaccompanied Latinx Indigenous minors experience the intersection of immigration policies and U.S. school policies and practices and the implications this has for school leaders. As such, we present three critical incidents that center three students’ experience with and through U.S. schooling—from enrollment, to navigating schooling linguistic support, and then finally the ways in which disciplinary policies heighten the consequences of immigration reform. Through the critical incidents, readers will meet Santiago, Manuel, and Cristian…
As communities around the world respond to the rapidly evolving situation around COVID-19, psychologists across the breadth of the field are providing critical guidance and support.
This free collection includes relevant psychological research published across the APA Journals portfolio. The list will be updated on an ongoing basis.
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