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Annie E. Casey Foundation
Fostering Higher Education Webinar
In this webinar, the Annie E. Casey Foundation shares lessons and findings from a college-readiness effort focusing on youth in foster care. The session highlights promising strategies used in pilot programs at the Foundation‘s Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative® sites in Georgia and Iowa.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
How Homelessness and Systems Involvement Affect K–12 Success
The panel focuses on sharing research insight as well as successful practices that support students with foster care experiences in postsecondary education. Remarks address pressing issues facing foster youth during the pandemic and ways for institutions and individuals to advocate and support their specific needs.
A Landscape Scan of Research on the K-12 Education of Young People in the United States Who Experience Foster Care, Incarceration, and/or Homelessness
By Stephanie Malia Krauss, Maddy Day, Thaddeus Ferber, and Danielle Wallis
Fostering Academic Achievement Nationwide (FAAN) Network
Webinar: Challenging the Myth of 3%: A Systematic Review of Educational Outcomes of SEFC
This webinar challenges the often cited statistic that only 3% of youth from foster care will go on to earn a bachelor’s degree before the age of 26, highlighting findings from a recent study that reviewed the most up to date foster care and higher education outcomes.
Article: Okpych, N. J., Whitman, K., Lee, J., Neria-Piña, L., Jackson, L. A., Day, M. (2025). Secondary and postsecondary education outcomes of students with experience in foster care: Systematic review of the literature from 2000-2023. AERA Open, 11(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584251331454
The Imprint
College Stability After Homelessness or Foster Care, with Maddy Day
On this week’s podcast Maddy Day of Maddy Day and Associates joins to talk about what it takes to provide stability on college campuses for youth who have experienced aging out of foster care, homelessness or both. She is helping to coordinate a Congressional briefing planned for 2026 on the subject.
2026 Field Center Aging Out Podcast
Interview with Maddy Day, co-Founder of Fostering Academic Achievement Nationwide
Influenced by her family’s deep ties to child welfare, Maddy gained early insight into the realities facing non‑traditional families. Her career path ultimately led to the creation of FAAN in 2016, a network that grew from informal cross‑state conversations among practitioners that now includes more than twenty states. Maddy’s journey and FAAN’s expansion underscore the impact of connection, reliable data, persistent advocacy, and the importance of listening to students in creating equitable educational pathways for youth with experience in foster care.
The Imprint: Youth and Family News
Nourishment was Scarce in Her Foster Home, but Plentiful at L.A. Kitchen
San Diego State University HIED Forum
Supporting Postsecondary Students with Experiences in Foster Care
The panel focuses on sharing research insight as well as successful practices that support students with foster care experiences in postsecondary education. Remarks address pressing issues facing foster youth during the pandemic and ways for institutions and individuals to advocate and support their specific needs.
Democracy’s College
In this episode, OCCRL research assistant Chequita Brown talks with Maddy Day about the Fostering Success Michigan initiative and the impact of campus-based support programming on foster-care collegians' postsecondary access and retention. Maddy Day is a consultant for the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative at the Annie E. Casey Foundation
University of Illinois, Office of Community College Research and Leadership
This article outlines how key federal and state policies and campus-based support programs employing an integrative framework are contributing to addressing the achievement gaps impacting this population
NPR
From Foster Care To Freshman Year
By the time she aged out of foster care, Jasmine Uqdah had spent nearly half her life in the system. On a summer day in 2008, Uqdah grabbed her duffel bag and two small garbage bags, and she stuffed everything she owned inside.
Go Solo
Make it equitable. Make an impact
Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in personal and business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Maddy Day, Owner of Maddy Day LLC & Associates, located in Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
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