Accessing and achieving higher education can be challenging for foster care alumni, but one factor that can make a big difference is having supportive relationships from caring adults and peers to help them along the way. This webinar will review findings from a higher education access and retention intervention development study to explore some of the ways supportive relationships can make a crucial difference in the postsecondary success of youth transitioning from care.

Amy M. Salazar, MSW, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Human Development Department at Washington State University Vancouver. Her work focuses on developing and testing interventions designed to improve the outcomes of youth in foster care, and especially those transitioning from foster care to adulthood. 

Salazar, A. M., Haggerty, K. P., & Roe, S. S. (November 2016). Fostering Higher Education: A postsecondary access and retention intervention for youth with foster care experience. Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 70. Retrieved from
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740916302766

Salazar, A. M., Roe, S. S., Ullrich, J. S., & Haggerty K. P. (May 2016). Professional and youth perspectives on higher education-focused interventions for youth transitioning from foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 64. Retrieved from
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740916300615