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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

  • Dissertation Defense: It Takes A Village: An Examination of Educational Achievement for Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care

    UCF Health Sciences 1: 335

    Using Catalano and Hawkins’ (1996) Social Development Model as a theoretical framework, this study consists of an examination of the county-level percentage of youth in foster care who demonstrated educational achievement at the age of 18. Ten community-level risk and protective factors derived from the Social Development Model served as the independent variables.  Secondary data for a sample of counties …

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