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Education Success for Children in Foster Care
Hawaii was lucky to have Kristin Kelly, JD, from the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law in Washington D.C., tips & strategies to a group of resource caregivers and service providers on August 16, 2011, to help us know how to:
• Keep children in the same schools, or quickly enroll them in a new school;
• Help children enter school ready to learn;
• Prevent school dropout, truancy, and disciplinary actions; and
• Support youth around postsecondary education goals.
This training was sponsored by the Foster Care Training Committee, the Court Improvement Program & the Hawai`i Department of Human Services.
Follow links to download the handouts from this training:
Education Success – Slides – 8-16-11
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Click here to see Mental Health America-Hawaii’s new statewide Manuel that contains contact information (phone numbers and websites) for agencies and programs that offer assistance with substance abuse, anger management, grief support, mental health problems, domestic violence, homelessness, sex abuse, employment, developmental disabilities; and help for seniors, children and adolescents, veterans, immigrants.
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