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Summer Rewind: Supporting Foster Youth on College Campuses

August 12, 2024 • The Imprint

During the month of August, The Imprint Weekly Podcast is re-running some of our most intriguing guest interviews from the early years of the show for listeners who might not have heard them the first time around.

This week we feature two different interviews about the same issue: how to ensure that foster youth succeed once they get to college. In 2022, we talked to Amy Dworsky of Chapin Hall and Judy Havlicek of the University of Illinois about dismal research around community college completion among youth who aged out of foster care. Community college student and former foster youth Matt Schaad joined us to talk about his own path towards a degree.

We also included our 2020 interview with Christopher Scott and Lino Peña-Martinez of Connecticut’s Sun Scholars, a program that supports current and former foster youth on college campuses around the state.