Initiative to Improve Educational Outcomes With Foster Children

Input Measures of Capacity and Resources
• Provide services to 100 individual advocacy cases each year
• Involve 200 professionals in at least annual systems training opportunities each year
• Convene at least quarterly policy development meetings
• Successfully implement data collection in at least five of the targeted baseline data sets


Desired Effect and Impact on Dependent Children
• Decrease in the number of school transfers
• Decrease in the number of high school dropouts
• Increase in the number of dependent children who go on to college or vocational training after high school
• Decrease suspensions and expulsions from school
• Decrease in repeating a grade

Quality Measures
• Successfully conclude 75% of the advocacy cases
• Earn an Above Average rating in training evaluations from 60% of the participants
• 100% of the policies developed will be accepted by system authorities
• Produce annual reports and analysis of baseline data and include in project evaluation