This section includes:

• Introduction: Foster Care Point of Contact Toolkit

• Program Overview

• Educational Stability for Foster Care Youth in Region 2

• Resources

This section includes:

• History and Overview

• Foster Care Provisions:

  • Collaboration

  • School Placement Best Interest Determinations

  • Immediate Enrollment and Record Transfers

  • Transportation

  • LEA Foster Care Point of Contact

• Resources

This section includes:

• Early Childhood

• Special Education

• Residential Treatment Facilities

• Foster Care and Homelessness

• Transitioning Out of Foster Care

• Foster Care to College

• School Placement Disputes

• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

• Pennsylvania's Act 1

• Child Accounting

This section includes:

• Educational Rights for Foster Students in Charter Schools

• Tips for Collaboration: Charter Schools and School Districts

• Sample Foster Care Procedures for Cyber Charter Schools

• ChildTrends. (2023, April). State-level data for understanding child welfare in the United States. 

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/state-level-data-for-understanding-child-welfare-in-the-united-states 

• Child Welfare League of America. (n.d.). ABA releases national education-child welfare data sheet for 2022. 

https://www.cwla.org/aba-releases-national-education-child-welfare-data-sheet-for-2022/#:~:text=For%20instance%2C%2030%25%2D50,are%20not%20in%20foster%20care 

• Education Law Center. (2023, August). Fact sheet: Rights of students in foster care. 

https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rights-of-Students-in-Foster-Care-2023.pdf 

• Federal Student Aid. (n.d.). At any time since you turned age 13, were both your parents deceased, were you in foster care, or were you a dependent or ward of the court? [Online image]. 2024-2025 FAFSA Help. https://studentaid.gov/2223/help/orphan-foster-ward-court 

• National Foster Youth Institute. (n.d.). Housing & homelessness. https://nfyi.org/issues/homelessness/#:~:text=The%20child%20welfare%20system%20is,spent%20time%20in%20foster%20care. 

• National Foster Youth Institute. (n.d.). 51 useful aging out of foster care statistics | Social race media. https://nfyi.org/51-useful-aging-out-of-foster-care-statistics-social-race-media/ 

• Johnson, V. (2022, November). Foster care & homelessness. Pathways to Housing PA. https://pathwaystohousingpa.org/news/foster-care-homelessness 

• Pennsylvania Department of Education. (n.d.). Act 1 of 2022: Supporting graduation for students experiencing education instability. https://www.education.pa.gov/K-12/Pages/Act1of2022.aspx 

• Pennsylvania Department of Education. (2014, July). Surrogate parents. https://www.education.pa.gov/Policy-Funding/BECS/uscode/Pages/SurrogateParents.asx 

• The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, and Research. (n.d.). Foster care to college (FC2C). https://fieldcenteratpenn.org/projects/current-projects/foster-care-to-college/ 

• U.S. Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services. (2016, June). Non-regulatory guidance: Ensuring educational stability for children in foster care. https://oese.ed.gov/files/2020/09/Non-Regulatory-Guidance_06-23-2016.pdf 

• U.S. Department of Education. (2014, May). Uninterrupted Scholars Act. https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/sites/default/files/resource_document/file/uninterrupted-scholars-act-guidance.pdf 

• U.S. Department of Education. (2016, May). Foster care transition toolkit. https://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/foster-care/youth-transition-toolkit.pdf 

• Youth topics: Homelessness and housing instability. (n.d.). Youth.gov. https://youth.gov/youth-topics/homelessness-and-housing-instability#_ftn1