Journal article
Fostering Higher Education: A postsecondary access and retention intervention for youth with foster care experience
Children and youth services review, Vol.70, pp.46-56
11/2016
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107111
PMCID: PMC5036585
PMID: 27688522
Abstract
Most youth in foster care aspire to obtain higher education, but face daunting obstacles in doing so. While societal interest and effort to support foster youth in achieving higher education has grown, very few supports have evidence to show that they are effective at improving postsecondary outcomes. In an effort to address the dearth of clearly articulated, evidence-based postsecondary support approaches for foster youth, we have developed Fostering Higher Education (FHE), a comprehensive, structured, and evaluable postsecondary access and retention intervention composed of elements (professional educational advocacy, substance abuse prevention, mentoring) that are either evidence based or promising based on the scientific literature and their ability to address the outcomes of interest. This paper describes the development and youth usability and practitioner feasibility testing of the FHE intervention approach, which was developed through funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Youth usability feedback was primarily positive, with the majority of participants indicating they found the FHE activities interesting and useful, and were comfortable participating in them. Practitioner feasibility feedback was also primarily positive, with almost unanimous ratings of the FHE intervention components as very important to provide to youth and that all would be feasible for an organization to implement, though the mentoring components were seen as slightly less feasible than other components. Next steps and implications of this intervention development process are discussed.
•This paper describes the development of Fostering Higher Education (FHE).•FHE is a postsecondary access and retention intervention for youth in foster care.•Youth usability testing found FHE to be interesting to and comfortable for youth.•Practitioner feasibility testing found FHE was perceived as feasible to implement.
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- Title
- Fostering Higher Education: A postsecondary access and retention intervention for youth with foster care experience
- Creators
- Amy M Salazar - Department of Human Development, Washington State University, 14204 Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver, WA 98686-9600, USAKevin P Haggerty - Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, 9725 3rd Ave. NE, Suite 401, Seattle, WA 98115, USAStephanie S Roe - Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, 9725 3rd Ave. NE, Suite 401, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
- Publication Details
- Children and youth services review, Vol.70, pp.46-56
- Academic Unit
- Human Development, Department of
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Identifiers
- 99900546842401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article