Learning Library · Learn by Role
Your School, Your Education, Your Next Step
Foster Youth and Young Adults
For: young people currently or formerly in foster care, especially ages 14–24.
Working transcript available; video in development.
Word document; opens in a new tab.A youth-facing entry point
What this module helps you do
Understand school-stability supports, put questions into ordinary language, and identify where adults should step in without leaving you to manage the whole system alone.
School can be more than classes. It can be familiar people, credits that count, records that follow you, a bus that arrives, and a plan that does not restart every time life changes. This module explains how to ask for support while keeping responsibility where it belongs: with the adults and systems that are supposed to help.
Three learning outcomes
After exploring this module, you should be able to:
Ask clear school-stability questions
Identify questions you may want to ask after a placement or school change, without needing perfect legal language.
Find the adults and information that can help
Name people who may help with transportation, records, credits, disability supports, graduation, and postsecondary planning—and information a trusted adult can help save.
Keep youth voice central without carrying the system
Recognize that your goals and perspective matter while adults and institutions remain responsible for follow-through.
Current formats
Read now; watch later
Future youth-facing module video
The planned video will draw from reviewed material across Sessions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. No public cut, embed, final captions, or synchronized transcript exists yet.
Read the written module
The current Word document is a working proof-of-concept transcript. It may change as youth, source, legal, permission, and accessibility review continues.
Read the working transcriptWord document; opens in a new tab.New to school stability?
Start with School Stability 101
Get a common overview of school stability, shared responsibility, educational protections, and how the Learning Library fits together.
Choose what fits your question
Continue by role or topic
Go directly to the pathway that feels most useful. You do not have to complete the modules in order.
Webinar archive
Explore the source sessions
These public recordings are source material for the written module. They are not the finished youth-facing video.
Session 1
Lived experience, school-support roles, credits, and local coordination.
Session 2
Youth experience, school stability, federal protections, and shared responsibility.
Session 3
Youth voice, school continuity, relationships, and trusted adults.
Session 5
School initiative, trusted adults, practical support, and the EPSEA model.
Session 6
Disability, youth participation, qualified help, and education decision-making.
Optional reflection
Think about your next step
No response is collected. Do not share private case, school, medical, or contact information on this page.
- What would make school feel safer or more stable right now?
- Who is one trusted adult who can help ask questions or save information?
- What would you want adults to explain before a school decision is made?
Important boundaries