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Direct linkOkpych, Nathanael J.; Park, Sunggeun; Courtney, Mark E. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
Since the late 1990s, the federal government has increased supports that promote college success for foster youth (Okpych, 2012), such as the $5,000 education and training voucher that foster youth can use each year toward college expenses. A key piece of federal legislation supporting foster youth is the 2008 Fostering Connections to Success and…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Postsecondary Education, Enrollment, Academic Persistence
Courtney, Mark E.; Park, Sunggeun; Okpych, Nathanael J. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2017
California is one of the early adopters of extended foster care. The California Fostering Connections Act (AB12) was signed into law on September 30, 2010. The law ensured that, starting January 1, 2012, eligible foster youth had the right to stay in care until their 21st birthday. In addition to having the largest state foster care population in…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Child Welfare, State Legislation, Program Effectiveness
Courtney, Mark E.; Okpych, Nathanael J.; Park, Sunggeun – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2018
Support for the extended care provisions of the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 was, to a large extent, based on the belief that allowing youth in foster care to remain in care past their 18th birthday would improve their outcomes as adults. In a previous memo (see ED597309), the authors reported early…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Postsecondary Education, Enrollment, Academic Persistence
