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Annie E. Casey Foundation
Fostering Higher Education Webinar
In this webinar, the Annie E. Casey Foundation shares lessons and findings from a college-readiness effort focusing on youth in foster care. The session highlights promising strategies used in pilot programs at the Foundation‘s Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative® sites in Georgia and Iowa.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
How Homelessness and Systems Involvement Affect K–12 Success
The panel focuses on sharing research insight as well as successful practices that support students with foster care experiences in postsecondary education. Remarks address pressing issues facing foster youth during the pandemic and ways for institutions and individuals to advocate and support their specific needs.
A Landscape Scan of Research on the K-12 Education of Young People in the United States Who Experience Foster Care, Incarceration, and/or Homelessness
By Stephanie Malia Krauss, Maddy Day, Thaddeus Ferber, and Danielle Wallis
San Diego State University HIED Forum
Supporting Postsecondary Students with Experiences in Foster Care
The panel focuses on sharing research insight as well as successful practices that support students with foster care experiences in postsecondary education. Remarks address pressing issues facing foster youth during the pandemic and ways for institutions and individuals to advocate and support their specific needs.
The Imprint: Youth and Family News
Nourishment was Scarce in Her Foster Home, but Plentiful at L.A. Kitchen
Democracy’s College
In this episode, OCCRL research assistant Chequita Brown talks with Maddy Day about the Fostering Success Michigan initiative and the impact of campus-based support programming on foster-care collegians' postsecondary access and retention. Maddy Day is a consultant for the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative at the Annie E. Casey Foundation
University of Illinois, Office of Community College Research and Leadership
This article outlines how key federal and state policies and campus-based support programs employing an integrative framework are contributing to addressing the achievement gaps impacting this population
NPR
From Foster Care To Freshman Year
By the time she aged out of foster care, Jasmine Uqdah had spent nearly half her life in the system. On a summer day in 2008, Uqdah grabbed her duffel bag and two small garbage bags, and she stuffed everything she owned inside.
Go Solo
Make it equitable. Make an impact
Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in personal and business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Maddy Day, Owner of Maddy Day LLC & Associates, located in Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
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