Storey, Valerie A Fletcher, Roschanda
Published in
The Journal of school health
It is estimated that approximately 90% of children in foster care have experienced a traumatic event, with nearly half reporting exposure to 4 or more types of traumatic events. Educators must remain alert to indicators suggesting a history of trauma and understand the difficulties foster youth may face regulating their emotions and behavior while ...
Harvey, Brianna Marche'
Black families have historically experienced state sanctioned family separation for decades, originally via the institution of slavery and currently through the present-day child “welfare” or carceral family system. Schools act as an agent of surveillance for this system and report more Black families for suspected child maltreatment than families ...
Ahrens, Kym Udell, Wadiya Albertson, Katie Coatney, Alexis Golub, Sarah A Lowry, Sarah J
Published in
Academic pediatrics
Foster youth are at increased risk for negative sexual health outcomes and rarely receive the information or social/familial support needed to reduce risks. Foster and kinship caregivers report lacking the information and skills needed to effectively talk to youth in their care about sexual health. In a sample of caregivers from 2 large urban juris...
Jackson, M Sebrena Dozier, Krystal Colvin, Alex D Bullock, Angela N
Published in
Child abuse & neglect
Youth transitioning from foster care to college face multiple obstacles. Pre-college programs can promote college access for underrepresented students. The research on pre-college programs that prepare foster youth for college is limited. There is a paucity of research that illuminates youth voices in pre-college programs. This article reviews key ...
Cazares-Minero, Mayra
Research indicates that the majority of youth aging out of foster care, or former foster youth, aspire to earn a college degree, yet various studies demonstrate that only between 9.9 percent and 12 percent do so. In addition, to former foster youth are also significantly less likely to be currently enrolled in higher education compared to young peo...
Goldfarb, Deborah Tashjian, Sarah M Goodman, Gail S Bederian-Gardner, Daniel Hobbs, Sue D Cordón, Ingrid M Ogle, Christin M Bakanosky, Sarah Narr, Rachel K Chae, Yoojin
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Published in
Journal of interpersonal violence
Once social services steps in to protect children from violence and neglect in their homes, many youth become wards of the specialized juvenile or family court that assists in child protection (e.g., the dependency court). Some of these children will be ordered into foster care. Within this "dependency system," such children often feel a lack of vo...
Camarena-Prieto, Cristina
This study explores resiliency among former foster youth enrolled in four-year universities and seeks to understand what makes this unique population resilient enough to achieve and maintain academic success despite remaining underserved and largely absent from educational discourse (Johnson, 2020). The qualitative approach of this study involved a...
Kothari, Brianne H. Blakeslee, Jennifer Miller, Rebecca
Published in
Children and youth services review
Risk reduction and strength enhancement are both necessary strategies to improve outcomes for youth in foster care who have experienced adversity. Decades of research have articulated the negative long-term outcomes of youth in foster care, but less is known about youth-level modifiable protective factors that can be nurtured through intervention t...
Yoshioka-Maxwell, Amanda Rice, Eric
Published in
Children and youth services review
Introduction: Recent research has begun to demonstrate high rates of poor behavioral health outcomes among homeless former foster, but with relatively little attention in the scientific literature. Because social networks have been shown to impact behavioral health outcomes, we need to better understand the network characteristics of homeless young...
Espeleta, Hannah C Bakula, Dana M Sharkey, Christina M Reinink, Jennifer Cherry, Amanda Lees, Julie Shropshire, Deborah Mullins, Larry L Gillaspy, Stephen R
Published in
Clinical pediatrics
This article provides recommendations for adapting the pediatric medical home (PMH) model for health care needs of youth in foster care. Recommendations are based on key informant interviews regarding experiences at an established PMH for youth in foster care. Major clinic recommendations include expanding the PMH framework to include proficiency i...
