Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Students from Foster Care: Readings, Resources, Program Links
This Supporting Success supplement offers resources for postsecondary education professionals working to support students from foster care.
Education
PBS explores programs that support foster youths’ educational success
One of the most important supports that helps students succeed in school is a deeply involved and caring adult.
How do youth placed in foster care fare once they grow up?
The Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study provided a clearer picture of how alumni were functioning after they left care.
A Declaration of Hope: 2014 Signature Report
The power to build hope rests in the collective will of a community and its families. Because of this, we need to understand the interdependencies among families, neighborhoods, schools, local businesses, law enforcement, churches and nonprofits.
Better support means better outcomes: William C. Bell speaks at a Congressional subcommittee on improving foster care
Casey Family Programs President and CEO William C. Bell testifies at a Congressional subcommittee on improving foster care.
Supporting Success: Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Students from Foster Care
This resource provides professionals and advocates with a powerful tool for improving postsecondary education and training outcomes.
Pacific Lutheran University commencement address: promise of tomorrow
Dr. William C. Bell delivers the commencement address to the Pacific Lutheran University class of 2010.
Courts play a critical role in child safety
Dr. William C. Bell addresses New York’s Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) at the organization’s annual benefit and celebration in 2010.
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act: Improving Lives and Opportunities for Children in Foster Care
This resource explains how the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act benefits young people in care.
The job is not done when foster care ends
Dr. William C. Bell testifies before the California Assembly Select Committee on Foster Care.
