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College Stability After Homelessness or Foster Care, with Maddy Day

The Imprint Episode 223

On this week’s podcast Maddy Day of Maddy Day and Associates joins to talk about what it takes to provide stability on college campuses for youth who have experienced aging out of foster care, homelessness or both. She is helping to coordinate a Congressional briefing planned for 2026 on the subject. 

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Maddy Day is the founder of Maddy Day and Associates. She co-founded the University of Washington Champions Program, in 2010, and directed the Fostering Success Michigan statewide initiative at Western Michigan University until 2018.

Reading Room

Why Isn’t Community College Working for So Many Foster Youth?https://imprintnews.org/podcast/why-community-college-not-working-so-many-foster-youth

Making my Dream of Attending College Possible

https://imprintnews.org/youth-voice/making-my-dream-of-attending-college-possible/64932

Grieving the Loss of Housing and My Mother While Navigating College as a Foster Youth

https://imprintnews.org/youth-voice/grieving-the-loss-of-housing-and-my-mother-while-navigating-college-as-a-foster-youth/65080

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