The “At Risk” Episode

Miriam and Noah are back in time for National Mentoring Month to demystify mentoring x foster care: what is mentoring? How do young people manage the road to independence? What might it mean to mentor a young person in foster care?

This episode digs into formal and informal definitions of mentoring; hear from the community directly to gain multiple insights into how culture, psychology, and policy shape how society understands independence after foster care.

Works Referenced

California Department of Education — Foster Care & California Schools

URL: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sg/fosteryouth.asp

Golden, N. A. (2017). “There’s still that window that’s open”: The problem with “grit.” Urban Education, 52(3): 343–369.

URL: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=education_articles

Pennington CR, Heim D, Levy AR, Larkin DT. (2016) “Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators.” PLoS One.

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4713435/

Samuels, G. M. & Pryce, J. M. (2008). “What Doesn't Kill You Makes Your Stronger”: Survivalist self-reliance as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 30, Issue 10, Pages 1198-1210.

URL: [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Pryce/publication/223052115_What_doesn't_kill_you_makes_you_stronger_Survivalist_self-reliance_as_resilience_and_risk_among_young_adults_aging_out_of_foster_care/links/5a395836a6fdcc3527bc226e/What-doesnt-kill-you-makes-you-stronger-Survivalist-self-reliance-as-resilience-and-risk-among-young-adults-aging-out-of-foster-care.pdf](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Pryce/publication/223052115_What_doesn't_kill_you_makes_you_stronger_Survivalist_self-reliance_as_resilience_and_risk_among_young_adults_aging_out_of_foster_care/links/5a395836a6fdcc3527bc226e/What-doesnt-kill-you-makes-you-stronger-Survivalist-self-reliance-as-resilience-and-risk-among-young-adults-aging-out-of-foster-care.pdf)

Keywords:

mentoring, mentor, education, career, youth development, impact, relationships, “at risk”, “stereotype threat”, independence, interdependence