Educational Needs of Youth in Residential Care Surveys

The Education Law Center (ELC) and the Disability Rights Network (DRN) are seeking to learn more about the educational needs of children and youth in Chapter 3800-licensed child residential and day treatment facilities (e.g., residential treatment facilities, group homes, day treatment programs).  Their anecdotal experiences suggest that many children may experience specific educational challenges such as:

Barriers to accessing appropriate public school placements
Failure of schools to recognize credits earned in residential placements
Lack of support in accessing special education services and
Need for additional educational services and remedial support.

ELC and DRN are requesting that child residential and day treatment facility staff, as well as County Children and Youth and Juvenile Probation staff who place children in these facilities, complete the survey for child welfare professional.  Your survey responses will make a difference!  By responding, you will enable ELC and DRN to advocate for critical changes in policies to improve the quality of education for children and youth in residential placements.  They greatly appreciate and need your assistance in this important effort. 

Click here to take the Child Welfare Professional Survey:

In addition, ELC and DRN are also seeking to learn more about these issues from the perspective of children and youth who are living in, or have lived in, a residential placement.  We would ask you to assist in getting youth access to the survey so their voices can be heard.

Click here to take the Youth Survey:

Survey responses are due by November 20, 2009.
THESE SURVEYS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGH ELC’S WEBSITE at www.elc-pa.org

If you know of others who have experiences ore specific stories to share about education issues in residential placements, please forward this message to them?

Thank you for your assistance!