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Johnson, Royel M.; Strayhorn, Terrell L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2019
Foster youth are among some of the nation's most underserved students in higher education. Of the more than 430,000 youth in the foster care system, only about 50% will graduate from high school and as little as 3% will ever earn a bachelor's degree (Pecora, 2012; Wolanin, 2005). While critically important for smoothing students' transition from…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Youth Programs, Outreach Programs, At Risk Persons
Potochnik, Tracie; Romans, Angela N.; Thompson, Joanne – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2016
Promesa Boyle Heights, a neighborhood-level collaborative in Los Angeles, works to deliberately develop relationships, coordination, and alignment across multiple partners to benefit young people and families--with positive, measurable results. One unique aspect of Promesa is the substantive engagement of parents, youth, and residents as key…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Educational Practices, Partnerships in Education, Governance
Potochnik, Tracie; Romans, Angela N.; Thompson, Joanne – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2016
Promesa Boyle Heights, a neighborhood-level collaborative in Los Angeles, works to deliberately develop relationships, coordination, and alignment across multiple partners to benefit young people and families--with positive, measurable results. One unique aspect of Promesa is the substantive engagement of parents, youth, and residents as key…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Educational Practices, Partnerships in Education, Governance
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1981
The major objectives, current and future activities, evaluation findings, and problems of the Outreach Mobile Delivery System of the New York City Public Schools are discussed in this annual report. The purpose of outreach project was to inform parents with handicapped children about ancillary services available to reduce the severity of unmet…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Health