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Fostering Success

Fostering Success. Presented by: Amanda Metivier, MSW Youth Education Coordinator. Overview. Outcomes Education and Training Voucher Program Student Panel Get Involved. Life After Foster care. 30 % experience homelessness during the first year post foster care (Covenant House Alaska).

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Fostering Success

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  1. Fostering Success Presented by: Amanda Metivier, MSW Youth Education Coordinator

  2. Overview • Outcomes • Education and Training Voucher Program • Student Panel • Get Involved

  3. Life After Foster care • 30% experience homelessness during the first year post foster care (Covenant House Alaska). • 30% of foster care alumni are incarcerated for some period of time after leaving foster care. • Nearly 80% report a lifelong reliance on behavioral health services. • 2.5 times more likely to become pregnant before age 19. 50% of females and 30% of males become parents before age 19.

  4. Educational Outcomes • The rate of GED acquisition by alumni is 6 times the national rate. • Nearly 58% of youth in foster care graduate high school by age19, compared to 87% of the general population. • 78% of foster youth (seniors) in the Anchorage School district are on track to graduate in May 2014. • Students in foster care score16 to 20 percentile points below others in statewide standardized test(Washington State study). • Only about 3%-11% obtain a bachelor's degree within a few years of emancipation. • The Casey National Alumni Study reported college completion rates of 9% (at any age) compared to the general population rate of 24%

  5. Efforts to IMPROVE • Foster Care Extended to 21 • Foster Care Re-entry • Foster Youth Mentoring Program • Foster Youth Housing Coupons • Crisis Housing Funds • Additional Transition Staff • School Transportation Funds • Increased Efforts to Achieve Permanency • Expanded ETV Program • University Presidential Tuition Waiver

  6. Etv • ETV offers financial assistance to eligible current and former foster youth to attend an accredited college, university, vocational or technical college. • The maximum ETV award is $5,000. Awards are unique to each student and are based on the cost of attendance formula established by their college of choice.

  7. Child welfare academy • Collaboration with the Office of Children’s Services to provide post-secondary education and training support to current and former foster youth ages 16-23 throughout the state. • Manage ETV & Tuition Waiver Funds • Outreach to foster youth eligible for higher education funding support • Provide post-secondary education prep & exploration to high school students • Provide case management to current University of Alaska students

  8. 2013-2014 Student Demographics

  9. 2013-2014 Student Demographics

  10. 2013-2014 Student Demographics

  11. 2013-2014 Student Demographics

  12. Persistence Fall to spring

  13. Fall GPA 2012-2013 2013-2014

  14. Student Perspectives • Gary Lose • AhnieLoncle • Neveah Ingham • Slade Martin

  15. Contacts Amanda Metivier Youth Education Coordinator Child Welfare Academy almetivier@uaa.alaska.edu 907-786-6732 Shawnalee Whitney Associate Professor of Communication Special Assistant to the Director, Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence sawhitney@uaa.alaska.edu 907-786-4393 voice

  16. Resources • National Workgroup on Foster Care and Education http://www.casey.org/Resources/Initiatives/NationalWorkingGroup • ABA Center on Children and the Law http://www.americanbar.org/groups/child_law.html • Casey Family Programs, Foster Care by the Numbers http://www.casey.org/Newsroom/MediaKit/pdf/FosterCareByTheNumbers.pdf • Alaskan Foster Care Alumni Study http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/swep/upload/ak_foster_care_alumni_study.pdf • State of Alaska Division of Health, Section of Women Children’s, and Family Health Lexi.prunella@alaska.gov • Covenant House Alaska, Youth in Crisis Final Report 2010 http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/Publications/CovenantHouse_final100304.pdf Anchorage School District Child in Transition Program Dexter_barb@asdk12.org • Child Welfare Academy, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 Academic Year

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