A practical resource hub for foster youth education in Ohio
Fostering Potential helps Ohio make school, graduation, and opportunity more stable and reachable for foster youth by turning legal knowledge, lived experience, and expert guidance into practical tools.
Start with your role. Find plain-language information, trusted resources, role-specific tools, and learning materials designed to help people ask better questions and take the next practical step.
When school changes, people need a clear place to begin.
When a young person in foster care changes homes or schools, the people around them may need to make decisions quickly. Young people may be trying to protect relationships and stay on track. Caregivers may be sorting through enrollment, records, transportation, credits, or communication. School and child welfare professionals may be working across systems with different responsibilities and timelines.
Important legal protections, public resources, and practical lessons already exist. They are not always easy to find, understand, or use together. Fostering Potential is building one place where people can choose their role, understand the issue, find trustworthy resources, watch or read relevant learning materials, and know what questions to ask next.
You do not need to understand every system before you can find a useful next step.
Where do I start?
Choose the role closest to your situation. Each path begins with practical questions and connects you to resources, tools, and learning materials.
Foster youth and alumni
Understand school-related protections, find supportive adults, and explore trusted next steps. The burden of making systems work should not fall on you.
Foster parents and caregivers
Find practical questions, official resources, and next steps when a young person changes schools or needs help with enrollment, records, transportation, credits, or communication.
School staff
Recognize common school-stability concerns, offer steady support, and route coordination questions to the right people without asking a student to disclose more than they choose.
Child welfare professionals
Coordinate around placement changes, school-of-origin questions, transportation, records, and points of contact using current official sources and practical checklists.
A resource hub built around real questions
You should not need to know the name of a law, agency, or program before you can find a useful place to begin.
Trusted resources
Start with plain-language orientation and reviewed links to official public resources.
Tools for your role
Use checklists, questions to ask, documents to gather, people to contact, and referral boundaries tailored to your role.
Videos and learning
Watch full sessions, explore short topic clips, or read planned transcripts and learning paths as materials are reviewed and developed.
Start with a practical question
The resource hub organizes information by role and topic. These starting points show how the full library will work.
New to the issue?
Begin with a plain-language overview of foster youth education in Ohio and a map of where to go next.
Trying to keep a young person connected to school?
Review school-stability questions and official sources that can help you understand the process.
Enrollment or records problem?
Find questions to ask and official resources when a school change, enrollment delay, or records transfer creates confusion.
Transportation question?
Understand the questions that often require coordination among schools, caregivers, and child welfare professionals.
Topic pages will identify when changing sources were last checked and will link to official sources wherever possible.
Learn from the series—and from what comes next
Fostering Potential began as a cross-system webinar series. The resource hub will make that work easier to use by organizing selected sessions, short topic clips, transcripts, and role-specific learning paths.
Full sessions
Watch selected recordings that are already public or have been reviewed for use.
Short topic clips
Find focused explanations drawn from the series as clips are selected, captioned, and reviewed.
Role-specific learning
Follow a guided path that connects videos, transcripts, tools, and next steps for your role.
Built from work already underway
Fostering Potential is not starting from a blank page. It grew from a webinar series and a growing source archive that brought together lived experience, public resources, law and policy, and professional practice.
- A cross-system series focused on foster youth educational success
- Recordings, transcripts, slides, and resource lists that can be organized for wider use
- Lived-experience and professional perspectives that show where people need clearer tools
- A plan to turn source material into reviewed, accessible resources, role-specific tools, and learning materials
Stay connected
Join the invitation list for future Fostering Potential sessions and occasional resource updates.