1. FOSTERING SUCCESS Presented by: Amanda Metivier, MSW Youth Education Coordinator

2. OVERVIEW  Outcomes  Education and Training Voucher Program  Student Panel  Get Involved

4. LIFE AFTER FOSTER CARE  30% experience homelessness during the first year post foster care (Covenant House Alaska).  30% of foster care alumni are incarcerated for some period of time after leaving foster care.  Nearly 80% report a lifelong reliance on behavioral health services.  2.5 times more likely to become pregnant before age 19. 50% of females and 30% of males become parents before age 19.

5. EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES  The rate of GED acquisition by alumni is 6 times the national rate.  Nearly 58% of youth in foster care graduate high school by age19, compared to 87% of the general population.  78% of foster youth (seniors) in the Anchorage School district are on track to graduate in May 2014.  Students in foster care score16 to 20 percentile points below others in statewide standardized test(Washington State study).  Only about 3%-11% obtain a bachelor's degree within a few years of emancipation.  The Casey National Alumni Study reported college completion rates of 9% (at any age) compared to the general population rate of 24%

6. EFFORTS TO IMPROVE  Foster Care Extended to 21  Foster Care Re-entry  Foster Youth Mentoring Program  Foster Youth Housing Coupons  Crisis Housing Funds  Additional Transition Staff  School Transportation Funds  Increased Efforts to Achieve Permanency  Expanded ETV Program  University Presidential Tuition Waiver

7. ETV  ETV offers financial assistance to eligible current and former foster youth to attend an accredited college, university, vocational or technical college.  The maximum ETV award is $5,000. Awards are unique to each student and are based on the cost of attendance formula established by their college of choice.

8. CHILD WELFARE ACADEMY  Collaboration with the Office of Children’s Services to provide post- secondary education and training support to current and former foster youth ages 16-23 throughout the state.  Manage ETV & Tuition Waiver Funds  Outreach to foster youth eligible for higher education funding support  Provide post-secondary education prep & exploration to high school students  Provide case management to current University of Alaska students

9. 2013-2014 STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS

13. PERSISTENCE FALL TO SPRING

14. FALL GPA 2012-20132013-2014

15. STUDENT PERSPECTIVES  Gary Lose  Ahnie Loncle  Neveah Ingham  Slade Martin

17. CONTACTS Amanda Metivier Youth Education Coordinator Child Welfare Academy almetivier@uaa.alaska.edu 907-786-6732 Shawnalee Whitney Associate Professor of Communication Special Assistant to the Director, Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence sawhitney@uaa.alaska.edu 907-786-4393 voice

18. RESOURCES  National Workgroup on Foster Care and Education http://www.casey.org/Resources/Initiatives/NationalWorkingGroup  ABA Center on Children and the Law http://www.americanbar.org/groups/child_law.html  Casey Family Programs, Foster Care by the Numbers http://www.casey.org/Newsroom/MediaKit/pdf/FosterCareByTheNumbers.pdf  Alaskan Foster Care Alumni Study http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/swep/upload/ak_foster_care_alumni_study.pdf  State of Alaska Division of Health, Section of Women Children’s, and Family Health Lexi.prunella@alaska.gov  Covenant House Alaska, Youth in Crisis Final Report 2010 http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/Publications/CovenantHouse_final100304.pdf Anchorage School District Child in Transition Program Dexter_barb@asdk12.org  Child Welfare Academy, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 Academic Year