Director of Student Services Bonita Unified School District Danielle Tenner Education Program Attorney Alliance for Childrens Rights Toolkit for Foster Youth Education Success Enrolling Foster Youth ID: 275209
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Mark Rodgers
Director of Student Services
Bonita Unified School District
Danielle Tenner
Education Program AttorneyAlliance for Children’s Rights
Toolkit for Foster Youth Education
SuccessEnrolling Foster Youth
September 17, 2015Slide2
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Presentation materials and the Foster Youth Education Toolkit can be found at:
kids-alliance.org/edtoolkit
Technical DetailsSlide3
Why are you here?
You’ll Learn:
Enrollment rights of foster youth. Best practices for identifying and enrolling foster youth. NOTE: When we refer to foster youth, that includes both foster youth with open dependency court cases and probation youth with open delinquency court cases. Slide4
Youth Experience Slide5Slide6
Students in District: approximately 10,000Foster Youth included in LCFF norm 2014: approximately 150
Foster Youth enrolling in 2014: about 500Three large group homes account for nearly 50% of foster youth.District investment in Foster Youth Program
Bonita Unified School DistrictSlide7
PartnershipSlide8
Enrollment Challenges
Do not know who all foster youth are
Lack of advanced notice of enrollmentDo not know who holds education rights
Lack of records/paperwork Students are credit deficient
Students are academically behindStudents have significant mental health needsStudents have come from across the countySlide9
Enrollment Strategies
Change enrollment paperwork
Focus on finding Education Rights HoldersTrain local school staff Rely on Education Rights Holders to make decisions about alternative school options
Hire interns to facilitate record gathering and placement discussionsImprove lines of communications with local group homes, child welfare agency, and probation department
Work with county office of education and local child welfare agency to improve data matchingSlide10
Enrolling Foster YouthSlide11
Enrolling Foster Youth
Sean, a 16 year old foster youth, walks into the front office of your local comprehensive high school with his grandma Jeannie to enroll in school. He is more than 2 years off track for graduation. Slide12
Enrolling Foster Youth
Andrea, an employee at a local group home, calls the local high school to enroll Calvin, who was placed in the group home over the weekend. Calvin has some significant mental health and behavioral needs and Andrea asks about putting him in a smaller school. Slide13
Enrolling Foster Youth
Mr. Rivas, the dean of discipline at the middle school where you serve as the AB 490 foster youth liaison, is fed up with Jimmy. Jimmy is a foster youth who can’t seem to control his anger and has been suspended a few times this year. Mr. Rivas wants you to send him to the community day school. Slide14
Enrolling Foster Youth
Jessica and her aunt Sue walk into the front office of your elementary school. Sue fills out the enrollment paperwork, including the foster youth screening questions. She answers “yes” that Jessica lives with someone other than her parents. You ask if the youth is in foster care, and Sue replies “No, I don’t think so.Slide15
Mark Rodgers
Director of Student Services
Bonita Unified School District
rodgers@bonita.k12.ca.us909-971-8200
Danielle Tenner
Education Program Attorneyd.tenner@kids-alliance.org
213.368.6010
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