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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Research Memo Summaries


Alona Ebo
Due: March 30, 2012
Ms. McKoy- 1
Research Memo Summaries
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, Volume 14, Number 1 - SpringerLink
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  • Educating Children in Residential and Foster Care
    tandfonline.com

    • First Article: Don’t Neglect Foster Youth
    The topic of discussion is whether the State should continue funding Foster Youth Services. The state of California is planning to cut a program that is helping more than 40,000 youth to navigate through school without traditional school and parenting support.  The $15 million dollar program helps track the progress of foster youth and help keep them from disciplinary and expulsion problems. Steinberg’s AB490 program allow foster youth to still continue school after moving placements; the programs track school credentials they have already earned and obtains immunization, transcripts, and school uniforms.
    Second Article: Educating Youth in Residential and Foster Care
                    Most children looked after by local authorities, low educational achievement probably has the most serious consequential for their future life chances. Children in residential and foster care fall behind and leave school with few qualifications. Recently local authorities have shown little interest in our foster youth. Studies show that the present foster care system may place more additional obstacles in their way to compensate for their other disadvantages. New approaches at different levels such as structural, attitudinal, and practical have been suggested to local authorities to make sure the youth receive just as much education as a child in their own home.
    Third Article: What Happens to Foster Kids
                    When youth age out of foster care they are adults from the ages of 18- 21, one question that still remains is what happened to them? Compared to a regular parent, results show that the youth would be more likely to drop out of school and not get their GED. Foster care high school receives little to no money from their parents or guardians. Changing schools, the foster youth say, causes more disruption and educational problens. 
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