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

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）：该项目的目的是为寄养青少年和照顾他们的成年人制作、测试和评估多媒体程序的使用。该计划将为寄养和团体之家的居民（青少年）、寄养和团体之家的家长、其他看护者以及青少年服务专业人员提供信息和资源，使寄养青少年更容易获得高等教育机会。尽早获取信息和资源将有助于提高寄养青少年和周围成年人的期望，即某种形式的高等教育（高中毕业后的教育）是一个可以实现的目标。我们将组织两个主要领域（国家和州特定）和七个基本主题领域的内容。青少年和成人将通过使用 On Your Way CD-ROM、DVD 和指南以及 On Your Way.org 网站的综合信息数据库来获取信息。 在第一阶段，我们开发了On Your Way CD-ROM、两个介绍性视频、DVD和指南的框架设计以及On Your Way.org网站。 On Your Way 程序原型是在 CD-ROM 上构建的（1.0 版）。可行性和评估研究的参与者表明，13-23 岁的寄养青少年对已完成项目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对互联网技术的访问和使用率。 第二阶段将全面开发《On Your Way》光盘、DVD及指南、网站。评估研究将集中于多媒体包的所有三个方面。我们制定了几个目标来指导我们的研究活动： 1. 提高寄养青少年及其照顾者/父母对高中毕业后教育的可及性和负担能力的认识； 2. 传播目前关于学校类型、招生、住房、学校资助、奖学金和贷款信息（经济援助）等零散信息，以培养青少年； 3. 开发和评估多媒体节目在接触农村和城市以及家庭和团体环境中的寄养青少年及其照顾者/父母方面的有效性； 4. 随着时间的推移收集数据，以确定材料的教育价值以及用户制定或扩展中学后教育计划的动机。