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Thatcher, Leslie; Rosenblum, L. Penny – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
To prepare high school graduates with visual impairments for college, staff members at Perkins School for the Blind developed a nine month residential program, College Success@Perkins. This article describes components of the program design and provides data on eight students who successfully completed the program in the first cohort. It concludes…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, College Readiness, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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Munson, Michelle R.; Scott, Lionel D., Jr. – Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 2007
The present paper reviews literature on older youth in foster care with a focus on those older youths in residential. We aim to examine what has been written in the scholarly literature about this specific group. Literature was reviewed from the last decade on the problems these youths face and potential solutions for them in the program…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Residential Programs, Institutionalized Persons, Youth