Exploring Factors That Influence Sense of Belonging for Foster Youth

• In Event: 43.054 - Centering Students' Identities in Varied Institutional Contexts

Abstract

Then purpose of this qualitative study is to critically examine the educational experiences of emancipating foster youth and factors that help facilitate and constrain their sense of belonging in school.

Authors

• Royel M. Johnson, The Pennsylvania State University

• Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, LeMoyne-Owen College

• Bridget Antonya Parler, The Pennsylvania State University