Educational Opportunities for Youth in Foster Care

寄养青少年的教育机会

• 批准号: 6993091
• 负责人: William Vincent Griffin
• 金额: $ 65.75万
• 依托单位: INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-20 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6993091
• 关键词: DVD /CD ROM; Internet; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; caregivers; child foster care /adoption; clinical research; education cost /financing; education evaluation /planning; educational resource design /development; focus groups; goal oriented behavior; handbook; human subject; interactive multimedia; motivation; questionnaires; rural area; urban area; DVD /CD ROM; Internet; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; caregivers; child foster care /adoption; clinical research; education cost /financing; education evaluation /planning; educational resource design /development; focus groups; goal oriented behavior; handbook; human subject; interactive multimedia; motivation; questionnaires; rural area; urban area

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this project is to produce, test, and evaluate the use of a multimedia program for foster youths and adults who care for them. The program will connect foster and group home residents (youths), foster and group home parents, other caregivers, and youth serving professionals with information and resources to make post secondary educational opportunities for foster youths more attainable. Early access to information and resources will serve to raise expectations among foster youths and adults surrounding them that some form of post-secondary education (education after high school) is an achievable goal. We will organize content in two major areas, national and state specific, and seven basic topic areas. Youths and adults will receive information by using an On Your Way CD-Rom, DVD and Guidebook, and comprehensive informational databases through the On Your Way.org website. In Phase I, we developed the On Your Way CD-Rom, two introductory videos, and framework design for the DVD and Guidebook, and On Your Way.org website. The On Your Way program prototype was built on a CD-Rom (version 1.0). Participants in the feasibility and evaluation studies showed that foster care youths from 13-23 were very interested and excited about the design and concept for the completed program. We were also able to determine significant rates of access and use of Internet technologies among participants in the study. In Phase II, we will fully develop the On Your Way CD-Rom, DVD and Guide, and website. The evaluation study will focus on all three aspects of the multimedia package. Several objectives have been developed to guide our research activities: 1. Raise awareness among foster care youths and their caregivers/parents regarding the accessibility and affordability of education after high school; 2. Disseminate currently fragmented information regarding types of schools, admissions, housing, school supports, scholarship and loan information (financial aid), available to foster youths; 3. Develop and evaluate effectiveness of multimedia programming in reaching foster care youths and their caregivers/parents in both rural and urban and family and group settings; 4. Gather data over time to determine the educational value of the materials and motivation of users to develop or extend post secondary education plans.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目的是生产，测试和评估用于照顾他们的寄养青年和成年人的多媒体计划。该计划将连接寄养和小组居民（青年），寄养和家庭父母，其他护理人员以及为专业人士提供信息和资源的年轻人，为寄养青年提供二级教育机会。尽早获取信息和资源将有助于提高培育年轻人和成年人的期望，这些年轻人和成年人围绕某种形式的专上教育（高中毕业后的教育）是一个可实现的目标。我们将在国家和州特定的两个主要领域以及七个基本主题领域中组织内容。年轻人和成人将通过使用您的cd-rom，DVD和指南，以及通过您的way.org网站的全面信息数据库来接收信息。 在第一阶段，我们开发了DVD和GuideBook以及您的Way.org网站的CD-ROM，两个介绍性视频以及框架设计。在您的途中，程序原型是在CD-ROM（1.0版）上构建的。可行性和评估研究的参与者表明，13-23岁的寄养青年对完成计划的设计和概念非常感兴趣和兴奋。我们还能够确定研究参与者中互联网技术的大量访问率。 在第二阶段，我们将充分开发您的CD-ROM，DVD和指南以及网站。评估研究将重点关注多媒体软件包的所有三个方面。已经开发了一些目标来指导我们的研究活动： 1。提高寄养年轻人及其父母/父母对高中毕业后的教育的可及性和负担能力的认识； 2。传播有关学校，招生，住房，学校支持，奖学金和贷款信息（经济援助）的目前分散的信息，可用于寄养青年； 3。发展和评估多媒体节目在农村，城市，家庭以及团体环境中及其照料年轻人及其父母的有效性； 4.随着时间的推移收集数据，以确定用户制定或扩展中学后教育计划的材料的教育价值和动力。