FOSTERED

Our demonstration sites involve deep partnerships with local communities. Through them, we facilitate a collective process to build a shared agenda, establish clear metrics that track progress across systems, and implement practices that ensure young people are supported in all the necessary ways in order to succeed. Our team of Education Liaisons, embedded in the local child welfare and education agency, manage this work... Working in close concert with our , we create conditions for scale and state impact by developing and executing a bold policy agenda in each of the states we operate. FosterEd led a coalition of organizations that advocated for the inclusion of foster youth educational stability provisions - including protections for students to remain in their school of origin, be immediately enrolled in school, and receive transportation to school - and data reporting requirements in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed by President Obama in December 2015.....

Primary location: Oakland United States