Additional
Resources:
Best
Practices for Increasing Youth Participation in Collaborative
Team Building: Produced by the Research and Training
Center on Family Support and Children’s
Mental Health at Portland State University (PDF, 8 pgs)
Are
We Ignoring Foster Youth With Disabilities?: Success
in school is a critical factor for all students in achieving
positive
adult outcomes; however, it may be especially important for
foster youth who have little else. The Fostering Futures
Project conducted a study to investigate the academic performance
of high school students who are in both foster care and special
education. This article provides an overview of the seven
key findings that indicated that a lack of school success
is
a significant
issue for
foster
youth with disabilities. (PDF, 10 pgs)
IDEA
2004 Provisions for Homeless Children and Youth with
Disabilities: This brief from the National
Center for Homeless Education provides an overview
of the pertinent provisions in IDEA regarding homeless
children and includes
a list of resources. (PDF, 13 pgs)
Youth
with Disabilities in the Foster Care System: Barriers
to Success and Proposed
Policy Solutions: This comprehensive 2008
report from the National
Council on Disability provides
policymakers,
primarily
at the federal and state levels, with information about
youth with disabilities in foster care, so that policymakers
can begin to understand the characteristics of this population;
the challenges they face; how they fare with regard to
safety, permanency, self-determination and self-sufficiency,
enhanced quality of life, and community integration;
and how the complex array of existing programs and services
could be better designed to improve these outcomes. (PDF,
190 pgs)
In
School, The Right School, Finish School: A Guide to
Improving Educational Opportunities for Court-Involved
Youth: A useful guide to major provisions
of all federal laws impacting children and youth, including
education
for the
disadvantaged,
special
education, the educational rights of homeless youth and
youth in the foster care system, vocational and technical
education, education for youth involved with the juvenile
justice
system, and school discipline. A publication of the National
Children's Law Network (PDF, 62 pgs)
Forgotten
Children: A Case for Action for Children and Youth with
Disabilities in Foster Care:
This report, from United
Cerebral Palsy and Children’s
Rights, reveals that at least one-third of the more than
500,000 children and youth in American foster care systems
today may have disabilities. (PDF, 12 pgs)
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