Foster Care with the Mockingbird ProgramOur systems are failing the potential and future of young people who experience foster care or homelessness. The Mockingbird Society is working to change that. Using its youth-adult partnership model, Mockingbird develops young people who have experienced foster care or homelessness into leaders and advocates who develop and advance policy reforms. Mockingbird’s youth advocates safely share their experiences as they advocate passionately for a brighter future on behalf of each and every foster and homeless youth in Washington. Mockingbird also created and is implementing MOCKINGBIRD FAMILYTM around the world. This empowerment-based approach to delivering foster care has been proven to be more effective at supporting foster parents and providing significantly more stability for youth than traditional systems.
Taken Into Foster Care, Through the Eyes of a ChildFrom Kansas City Star: Before she was an inmate, Michelle Voorhees was a kid in foster care. Painting a vivid picture, Voorhees asks you to imagine the harrowing, disconcerting experience of being removed from your own home.
The Storyboard Project: Former foster youth in the 5% of college graduatesFrom The Storyboard Project: In this series of videos about youth with a lived foster care experience, they share their journey and experiences that lead to where they are now. Produced and directed by: Mira Zimet. It was a college prep high school that encouraged this former foster youth to get a secondary education.
ABC News Report: Aging out of the foster care systemFrom ABC News: Charell Star and Jeanette Rivera speak about the challenges young people have been facing during the pandemic. More support is needed for young people aging out of the foster care system.
Foster Youth Face Extreme Barriers to College. Here is One Program That's HelpingFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education: Great Expectations, an 11-year-old effort at Virginia’s community colleges, has developed a program focused on building trust and support to get foster youth to college and help them succeed. Based on recommendations from the Casey Family Programs, an advocacy group for children, and funded by the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and other sponsors, the program has coaches at 21 Virginia community colleges. We spent two days on campus at Virginia Highlands with Deborah Ledford, the campus’s Great Expectations coach, to observe the program firsthand.
Recommended Databases
Chaffey College students, faculty, and staff can access the databases and articles below using your MyChaffey ID and Password.
Access to full-text scholarly journals from a wide variety of fields. Contains the full archive of most journals, except for the current 1-5 years. Watch the How to Use JSTOR video.
Extensive list of sample topics on front page leading to gateways of full-text resources including: book chapters, viewpoint essays, news, magazine and academic journal articles as well as some statistical data. Watch the How to Use Opposing Viewpoints video.
