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Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education: Reaching Higher de Jacob P. Gross

Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education: Reaching Higher

Autor Jacob P. Gross Contribuţii de Jennifer Geiger, Ellen Bara Stolzenberg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 mai 2019
This book examines the attainment gap between foster youth and their peers. Specifically focusing on post-secondary access and success for foster youth, Gross points out the challenges foster youth face in the primary and secondary school context, such as being less likely to complete high school. These barriers to former foster youth continue once enrolled in post-secondary education, and can manifest as lack of institutional support, financial barriers, and limited to no familial support. The author discusses what policy makers and practitioners need to know to better support the educational attainment of former foster youth. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319994581
ISBN-10: 3319994581
Pagini: 146
Ilustrații: XVIII, 168 p. 13 illus., 9 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. Benefits of and Barriers to Higher Education.- 3. An Overview: Foster Care and Policies Designed to Support Youth in Care.- 4. Transitions out of Care.- 5. College Readiness and Enrollment Among Baccalaureate Degree Seekers.- 6. How Former Foster Youth Finance Higher Education.- 7. Campus Based Support Programs.- 8. Conclusion.- 

Notă biografică

Jacob P. Gross is Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration at the University of Louisville, USA.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

“College access, affordability, and completion are critical issues facing American higher education today—especially for students who have been in the foster care system. Based on sound data and smart policy analysis, this book will help high school counselors, social workers, and student affairs professionals better support current and former foster youths. It also identifies promising ways policymakers and college leaders can leverage their influence to equalize educational opportunity.”
—Nicholas Hillman, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
“By examining the lives and postsecondary experiences of foster youth, the author sheds light on a marginalized population. As a scholar-practitioner myself, this book is a much needed primer for those who work with college-going foster youth. His work highlights the nuanced and complicated experiences of foster youth when navigating higher education: it unpacks the various challenges they face, the supportive systems that exist, and the necessary work that still needs to be done. As someone who emancipated from the foster care system, I appreciate this work; it is a call to action to (re)shape the discourse of foster youth that is anti-deficit and data driven. This textbook is useful for students and practitioners in higher education, student affairs, and social work.”
—Kenyon Lee Whitman, Program Director, Guardian Scholars Program, University of California, Riverside, USA

Caracteristici

Provides broader context for understanding how the foster care systems works, the demographics of foster youth, trends in foster care, and outcomes for former foster youth Fills gap in support for practitioners in post-secondary education lacking resources of support for former foster youth Original analysis intersecting child welfare and higher education