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Clemens, Elysia V.; Sheesley, Alison P. – Online Submission, 2019
Fostering Opportunities is an innovative student engagement program for middle school and high school students who have experienced foster care. The goal of the program is to help youth who have experienced foster care be successful in school and ultimately earn a high school credential. Fostering Opportunities was developed because of the clear…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Foster Care, Graduation Rate
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Gavazzi, Stephen M.; And Others – Family Relations, 1996
Describes a culturally specific rites of passage program designed for African American youth in foster care as an adjunct to an independent living program. Presents preliminary evaluative data on this program. Discusses future directions in culturally specific programs. (SNR)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Blacks, Ethnicity, Family (Sociological Unit)
Rosenau, Nancy, Ed. – 1990
This paper recounts the Macomb-Oakland (Michigan) Regional Center's 17-year successful experience in eliminating institutional care for children with developmental disabilities (many of them with severe disabilities) and providing all such children with specialized foster home placements. A paper by the Center's director, Gerald Provencal,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Costs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
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Calame, Robert; Parker, Kim – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2003
Aggression Replacement Training (ART) has been introduced and adopted with youth and families at Batshaw Youth and Family Centres in Montreal, Canada. The Batshaw philosophy of "Family Centered Practice" has generated a program which includes parents and significant others in what we call "Family ART" groups. Within the Batshaw…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Community Programs, Foreign Countries, Foster Care