Research & Evaluation
High School Graduation and Child Welfare: A Description of the Education Status of Older Minnesota Adolescents in the Academic Year After Substantiated Child Maltreatment Findings
Title IV-E Curriculum Module
Selected References
Courtney, M., & Barth, R. (1996) Pathways of older adolescents out of foster care: Implications for independent living services. Social Work, 41, 75-83
Courtney, M., Tereao, S., & Bost, N. (2004) Mid-west evaluation of former foster care youth: Conditions of youth preparing to leave state care. Chicago, IL, Chapin Hall Center for Children.
George, R., Belavie, L., Lee, B.J., Needell, B., Brookhart, A., & Jackman, W. (2002) Employment outcomes for youth aging out of foster care. Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall Center for Children & Bekeley, CA: Center for Social Services Research.
Swanson, C. (2004) Who graduates? Who doesn't? Washington, D.C., Urban Institute.
Wertheimer, R. (2002). Youth who 'age out' of foster care: Troubled lives, troubling prospects. Child Trends, 59. Washington, D.C.
Whiting Blome, W., (1997) What happens to foster kids: Educational experiences of a random sample of foster care youth and a matched group of non-foster care youth. Child and Asolescent Social Work Journal, 14 (1), 41-53.