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Resource Hub
Start with a practical question. This hub connects official sources, role pathways, topic modules, tools in development, and reviewed help resources—without turning into an unsourced link list or a legal-advice page.
Start here
Choose a foundation, a role, or the question in front of you
School stability questions are easier to navigate when you know what kind of help you need. Begin with the common foundation, choose the role closest to the next action, or move directly to a topic.
School Stability 101
A plain-language starting point on why school stability matters, who shares responsibility, and how to choose a deeper role or topic pathway.
Role-first navigation
Find resources for your role
The same education question can look different depending on who is responsible for the next step. Each card links to a toolkit, a role module, and a curated role-specific resource view on this page.
Role pathway
Foster youth and alumni
Plain-language starting points, trusted-adult planning, school continuity, records, disability supports, and life-after-high-school pathways.
Role pathway
Caregivers
Questions to ask after a placement or school change, records to save, school contacts, transportation, credits, disability supports, and follow-through.
Role pathway
School staff
Enrollment, records, liaison roles, transportation, disability support, belonging, and reliable school workflows.
Role pathway
District leaders
District policy, foster-care points of contact, transportation systems, records, training, accountability, and implementation review.
Role pathway
Child welfare professionals
School continuity during placement change, youth participation, notice, records, transportation, case planning, and transition goals.
Role pathway
Legal and court-connected advocates
General issue spotting for records, reports, meetings, hearings, school of origin, credits, disability, discipline, and reviewed help pathways.
Curated role views
Related resources by role
These short lists point to canonical resource cards later on this page. The same source may serve more than one role without creating duplicate records.
Foster youth and alumni
Caregivers
School staff
District leaders
Child welfare professionals
Legal and court-connected advocates
Topic-aware navigation
Explore the issue in front of you
Move from a broad question to official sources, a related module, a tool in development, and the role pathways most likely to act.
Start here
School stability basics
Use a common foundation before choosing a role-specific or deeper topic pathway.
Topic pathway
School of origin and transportation
Understand continuity, best-interest decisions, youth voice, transportation, and documentation.
Topic pathway
Enrollment, records, credits, and graduation
Protect attendance, records, completed work, course placement, graduation, and future options.
Topic pathway
Disability, special education, and discipline
Explore records, services, IEP and 504 concepts, discipline concerns, and qualified-help pathways.
Topic pathway
Trusted adults, belonging, and postsecondary
Connect school engagement, dependable adults, youth-centered goals, and practical transition support.
Design principle
Youth voice
See how youth voice can shape questions, priorities, design, and review without inviting private disclosure.
Public legal education
Legal framework
Use official sources and careful issue-spotting language without turning general information into legal advice.
Practice
Implementation examples
Learn from source sessions and public resources while keeping local examples distinct from statewide requirements.
Start here
School stability basics
A common foundation on school continuity, shared responsibility, official guidance, role pathways, and where to go next.
Related learning module
School Stability 101
Use the module for a structured introduction, then return here for sources, role pathways, and the related tool.
Tool in development
Learning Library Pathway Guide
The anchor card is available in this proof of concept. The final downloadable tool is not yet produced.
Verified resources
Start with these sources
Relevant role pathways: Youth and alumni · Caregivers · School staff · Child welfare · Legal and court
Topic pathway
School of origin, best-interest decisions, and transportation
Use official guidance and practical questions to make continuity, youth voice, transportation, and follow-through visible during placement change.
Related learning module
Staying Connected
Use the module for a structured introduction, then return here for sources, role pathways, and the related tool.
Tool in development
School-of-Origin and Transportation Question Guide
The anchor card is available in this proof of concept. The final downloadable tool is not yet produced.
Verified resources
Start with these sources
Relevant role pathways: Youth and alumni · Caregivers · School staff · Child welfare · Legal and court
Topic pathway
Enrollment, records, credits, and graduation
Prevent school changes from becoming lost instructional time, missing records, lost credits, weak course placement, or delayed graduation and postsecondary planning.
Related learning module
Protecting Progress
Use the module for a structured introduction, then return here for sources, role pathways, and the related tool.
Tool in development
Enrollment, Records, Credits, and Graduation Tracker
The anchor card is available in this proof of concept. The final downloadable tool is not yet produced.
Verified resources
Start with these sources
Relevant role pathways: Youth and alumni · Caregivers · School staff · Child welfare · Legal and court
Topic pathway
Disability, special education, and discipline
Use a careful, non-diagnostic overview of records, supports, IEP and 504 concepts, discipline concerns, and when to seek specialized help.
Related learning module
When Foster Care and Disability Intersect
Use the module for a structured introduction, then return here for sources, role pathways, and the related tool.
Tool in development
Disability and Discipline Issue-Spotting Question Sheet
The anchor card is available in this proof of concept. The final downloadable tool is not yet produced.
Verified resources
Start with these sources
Relevant role pathways: Youth and alumni · Caregivers · School staff · Child welfare · Legal and court
Topic pathway
Trusted adults, belonging, and life after high school
Connect school engagement, dependable adults, youth-centered goals, transition planning, college, training, work, and community life.
Related learning module
Connection Changes Outcomes
Use the module for a structured introduction, then return here for sources, role pathways, and the related tool.
Tool in development
Trusted Adult and Transition-Support Planning Worksheet
The anchor card is available in this proof of concept. The final downloadable tool is not yet produced.
Verified resources
Start with these sources
Relevant role pathways: Youth and alumni · Caregivers · School staff · Child welfare · Legal and court
Cross-cutting topics
Youth voice, legal framework, and implementation
Youth voice
Shape the work without shifting the burden
Youth voice should influence priorities, questions, review, and design. This public-style hub uses themes and review flags rather than unreviewed stories or quotations.
Public legal education
Start from official sources
Use official law and guidance for current requirements. Fostering Potential may explain issues and questions, but it does not provide legal advice or case strategy.
Implementation examples
Learn from practice without overgeneralizing
Source sessions and public resources can illustrate how people coordinate. Local examples remain examples—not statewide requirements, endorsements, or confirmed project partnerships.
Practical materials
Tools in development
These ten working anchor cards give every module a useful, non-broken destination while the final checklists, question guides, trackers, and downloadable files are developed and reviewed.
Learning Library Pathway Guide
A role-and-topic map for deciding where to start and what to explore next.
Youth “Questions I Can Ask” Checklist
Plain-language questions about school, transportation, records, credits, supports, trusted adults, and next steps.
Caregiver First-Week School Stability Checklist
A calm first-week guide for enrollment, school of origin, transportation, records, services, contacts, and follow-through.
School-Professional Foster-Care Workflow Checklist
A school workflow for noticing, connecting, documenting, assigning action, protecting privacy, and following up.
Placement-Change Education Stability Checklist
Questions and actions before, during, and after placement change so education does not disappear from case practice.
Education Issue-Spotting Checklist for Legal and Court Advocates
High-level questions for reports, records, meetings, hearings, documentation, and qualified-help referrals.
School-of-Origin and Transportation Question Guide
A planning guide for school connection, best-interest discussion, youth input, transportation, documentation, and review.
Enrollment, Records, Credits, and Graduation Tracker
A tracker for requests, records, course placement, credits, graduation planning, responsible adults, and next dates.
Disability and Discipline Issue-Spotting Question Sheet
A careful non-diagnostic guide for records, services, evaluations, IEP/504 questions, discipline, and specialized help.
Trusted Adult and Transition-Support Planning Worksheet
A planning map for people, places, documents, routines, goals, warning signs, and next steps toward adult life.
The tool titles and module relationships are settled for this proof of concept. Final content, file format, legal/current-source review, youth review where relevant, accessibility, and public release remain pending.
Source-controlled directory
Official and reviewed public resources
Each populated resource has an identifiable publisher, source type, last-checked date, neutral summary, and review note. Linking to an agency or organization does not imply partnership, endorsement, or project approval.
Official federal and Ohio guidance
Official federal guidance
Students in Foster Care Non-Regulatory Guidance
Joint federal guidance on educational stability requirements for students in foster care under ESSA and child-welfare coordination.
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Legal/current-source review before quoting or summarizing legal requirements
Official federal landing page
U.S. Department of Education: Students in Foster Care
Federal landing page for students in foster care, including ESSA-related information and resources.
Publisher: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education
Current-source review for any page-specific claim
Official federal resource collection
Child Welfare Information Gateway: Education and Children in Foster Care
Child-welfare resource hub for education issues affecting children and youth in foster care.
Publisher: Child Welfare Information Gateway / Children’s Bureau
Source/link review before public use
Official federal agency page
Children’s Bureau
Official home for the federal Children’s Bureau.
Publisher: Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Agency-language caution; do not imply partnership
Official federal law landing page
ESSA Foster Care Provisions Overview
General official ESSA landing page.
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education
Use only as a general official source; not a foster-care-specific explainer
Official Ohio agency resource
ODEW Foster Care Education Resources
Ohio education-agency resource page for students in foster care.
Publisher: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce
State-agency language caution; do not imply partnership
Official Ohio agency resource
Ohio Department of Children and Youth
Official home for Ohio’s child and youth agency.
Publisher: Ohio Department of Children and Youth
State-agency language caution; do not imply partnership
Legal, technical-assistance, and public-interest resources
Nonprofit technical-assistance resource
Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
National technical-assistance center focused on education success for students in foster care.
Publisher: Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Attribute as public resource; do not imply partnership or endorsement
Nonprofit technical-assistance resource
Legal Center Resource Library
Resource library for foster-care education materials.
Publisher: Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Use as a public resource; summarize cautiously
Nonprofit technical-assistance resource
Legal Center: School Stability and School of Origin Resources
Topic page or resource collection addressing school stability and school-of-origin implementation.
Publisher: Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Deep URL should receive final browser click-check; use resource-library fallback if moved
Nonprofit technical-assistance resource
Legal Center: Special Education and Foster Care Resources
Legal Center resource pathway for special education and foster care.
Publisher: Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Deep URL should receive final browser click-check; use resource-library fallback if moved
Nonprofit / professional resource
ABA Center on Children and the Law
ABA center that houses child-law projects, including foster-care and education work.
Publisher: American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
Do not imply project partner or endorsement without approval
Public legal information nonprofit
Ohio Legal Help
Ohio-facing public legal information and referral resource.
Publisher: Ohio Legal Help
Public legal information only; do not imply representation
National nonprofit
National CASA/GAL Association
National organization for CASA/GAL programs.
Publisher: National CASA/GAL Association for Children
Do not imply approval or certification
Disability and special-education resources
Official federal regulations
IDEA Regulations
Official IDEA regulations landing page.
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
Legal/specialist review before summarizing
Official federal regulation
IDEA FAPE Regulation
Specific IDEA regulation on free appropriate public education.
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
Legal/specialist review before summarizing
Official federal civil-rights resource
Protecting Students With Disabilities
OCR resource on protecting students with disabilities.
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Legal/current-source review before summarizing
Official federal civil-rights resource
Free Appropriate Public Education Under Section 504
OCR resource on FAPE under Section 504.
Publisher: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Legal/specialist review before summarizing
Protection & advocacy nonprofit
Disability Rights Ohio: Education
Ohio protection-and-advocacy education resources.
Publisher: Disability Rights Ohio
Attribute as public resource; do not imply partnership
Protection & advocacy nonprofit
Disability Rights Ohio: Special Education
Ohio special-education resource pathway.
Publisher: Disability Rights Ohio
Attribute; no legal advice; no partnership implication
Postsecondary and transition resources
Official Ohio agency resource
Ohio Department of Higher Education
Official Ohio higher-education agency.
Publisher: Ohio Department of Higher Education
State-agency language caution
Ohio higher-education network / nonprofit resource
Ohio Reach
Ohio network supporting students with foster-care experience in higher education.
Publisher: Ohio Reach
Do not imply partnership; verify current programs before specific claims
Program / nonprofit administrator
Ohio ETV Program
Education and Training Voucher program page for Ohio.
Publisher: Foster Care to Success / Ohio ETV
Verify current eligibility and deadlines before public claims
Official Ohio young-adult support resource
Bridges Ohio
Ohio Bridges program for eligible young adults transitioning from foster care.
Publisher: Ohio Department of Children and Youth / Ohio Bridges
Verify eligibility details before summarizing
Official legislation and tracking resources
Official legislative source
Ohio Legislature: House Bill 25 Status
Official status page for HB 25 in the 136th General Assembly.
Publisher: Ohio Legislature
Current-source refresh required before any status snapshot
Official legislative source
Ohio Legislature: Senate Bill 13 Status
Official status page for SB 13 in the 136th General Assembly.
Publisher: Ohio Legislature
Current-source refresh required before any status snapshot
Official legislative analysis source
Ohio Legislative Service Commission Bill Analyses
Official LSC bill-analysis library.
Publisher: Ohio Legislative Service Commission
Current-source refresh required before relying on analysis
Official public-media source
Ohio Channel
State-supported video archive for Ohio government proceedings.
Publisher: The Ohio Channel
Confirm specific hearing page before linking to a hearing
Additional public and technical-assistance resources
Official Ohio help/resource
Ohio Youth Ombudsman
Official Ohio ombudsman resource for young people and others seeking help related to youth services.
Publisher: Ohio Youth Ombudsman
Review before presenting as referral pathway; avoid suggesting emergency response
Official Ohio agency resource
OhioRISE
Ohio Medicaid program for youth with complex behavioral-health and multisystem needs.
Publisher: Ohio Medicaid
Do not imply eligibility; link as public resource only
Technical-assistance center
National Center for Homeless Education
Technical-assistance center for homeless education; useful where school-of-origin/mobility concepts overlap.
Publisher: National Center for Homeless Education
Use only where McKinney-Vento/homelessness is relevant; do not conflate with foster-care law
Reviewed pathways
Where to go for help
The Resource Hub can help you understand an issue and find a public resource. It cannot assess an individual case, guarantee services, or replace qualified advice.
- Start with the official source. Review the relevant guidance, agency page, or plain-language orientation.
- Identify the responsible role. Use the role pathways to locate the school, district, child-welfare, caregiver, legal, or other next step.
- Use a reviewed help pathway. The Ohio Youth Ombudsman, Ohio Legal Help, Disability Rights Ohio, and other listed resources may help with orientation or referral.
- Protect privacy. Do not send case records or confidential facts through a general website form.
- Confirm currentness and eligibility. Contact details, service areas, program rules, and law can change.
Source material
Full Fostering Potential sessions
The webinar archive is source material for the Learning Library and tools. A public recording is not automatically a finished module, certified training, or permission-cleared clip.
Full session
Session 1
Launch, school support, liaison roles, and the practical meaning of educational stability.
Full session
Session 2
Youth experience, federal education protections, shared responsibility, and school continuity.
Full session
Session 3
Youth experience, school connection, friendships, trusted adults, and continuity.
Full session
Session 4
Cross-system support, school teams, written action steps, and local implementation examples.
Full session
Session 5
EPSEA, coordination, adult initiative, school connection, and practical support.
Full session
Session 6
Special education, disability, discipline, youth participation, and education stability. No recording URL is available yet.
Fostering Potential materials
Continue through the learning and toolkit system
Learning Library
Five role modules and five topic modules are available as written proof-of-concept pages with working transcript links and honest video-development status.
Role-specific toolkits
Choose a practical guide for youth and alumni, caregivers, school staff, district leaders, child-welfare professionals, or legal and court advocates.
Ten module pages
- Start hereSchool Stability 101
- Role moduleYour School, Your Education, Your Next Step
- Role moduleWhat to Ask, What to Save, and Who to Call
- Role moduleMaking School Stability Real
- Role moduleKeeping Education Stable During Placement Change
- Role moduleSpotting and Addressing Education Issues
- Topic moduleStaying Connected
- Topic moduleProtecting Progress
- Topic moduleWhen Foster Care and Disability Intersect
- Topic moduleConnection Changes Outcomes
Source-type boundary
Public legal education is separate from advocacy
The Resource Hub may link to official legislation pages and teach users how to read bill status, versions, analyses, schedules, and hearing materials. It does not contain lobbying scripts, action alerts, vote requests, targeted legislator asks, or claims that a public legal-education grant funds advocacy.
Suggest a public resource
A future form may help the team identify an official source, technical-assistance resource, implementation example, or public tool for review. Submission will not guarantee inclusion, endorsement, partnership, or continued listing.