LEGAL CENTER ON FOSTER CARE AND EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
Blueprint for Change
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The Blueprint for Change is a tool for change. The 8 Goals for Youth and Benchmarks for each goal indicating progress toward achieving education success are a framework for both direct case advocacy and system reform efforts. Following each goal are National, State, and Local Examples of policies, practices, programs, and resources that exist to improve educational outcomes for children in foster care. The Legal Center for Foster Care and Education has just released the Second Edition of the Blueprint for Change, which includes many more Examples as well as a new “All Goals” section. To download the newest version of the Blueprint, the corresponding insert card, and the tools developed for educators, judges, attorneys, and caseworkers about Goals 1 and 2 of the Blueprint for Change, please click here. |
Question and Answer Factsheets Archive
The Legal Center for Foster Care and Education Develops monthly facthsheets about critical issues related to the education of children in out-of-home care.
To access all the factsheets, please click here.
School Stability and Continuity
For children in out-of-home care, school mobility is a barrier to their educational needs. Federal laws and state laws exist to improve the school stability of children in foster care.
Please click here to learn more about the McKinney-Vento Act and “Awaiting Foster Care Placement”
Please click here to learn about other state and federal laws that provide school stability and continuity.
Please click here to learn about the Fostering Connections Act.
Special Education Decisionmaking
The Legal Center for Foster Care and Education has developed a series of materials about special education decisionmaking for children in foster care. The series includes two articles, as well as individual factsheets for educators, caseworkers, attorneys, judges, foster parents, and youth.
To access the series, please click here.
Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008
On October 7, 2008, the Fostering Connections Act was signed into law. This law amends parts B and E of Title IV of the Social Security Act. Among its provisions to address the nneeds of children and youth in foster care, it seeks to promote education stability for foster children.
To access the text of the Act, as well as factsheets and resources about the education provisions of the Act, please click here.
Data and Information Sharing
The Legal Center continues to provide technical assistance around data and information sharing related to the education needs of children in foster care. A new publication, Solving the Data Puzzle: A How To Guide on Collecting and Sharing Information to Improve Educational Outcomes for Children in Out-of-Home Care, includes a manual as well as tools to assist jurisdictions.
Please click here to download the publication.
