This month we are focusing on youth returning to school successfully.
The stress of always being in a new situation is overwhelmingly challenging for youth in foster care.
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Returning to School Successfully
CASAs make a profound difference in individual student achievement at school by ensuring stability, promoting school attendance, preventing serious behavior problems, and meeting a child’s special education needs.
Children who change schools frequently make less academic progress than their peers, and each time they change schools, they fall farther and farther behind.
Youth in foster care are more likely to receive special education services than their non-foster care peers. A right to a quality education is critical to any youth’s future success.
Youth in foster care experience school suspensions and expulsions at higher rates. Failure to address trauma in foster kids, can lead to behavioral problems at school.
Children who enter foster care have often missed a substantial number of school days, and once in care have higher school absence rates than their non-foster care peers.
As early as age 18, youth need to advocate for their basic personal needs; manage their finances, health options; pursue higher education; find employment; obtain housing; and access transportation.
Seemingly overnight, youth in foster care are required to independently make important decisions, without having access to their family, friends, or a supportive network of caring adults.
