Riverside County Office of Education to Focus on Partnerships and Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Foster Youth Inside and Outside the Classroom
RIVERSIDE – Statistics show that educational performance, attendance, suspension rates, and post-secondary success of foster students consistently fall below the outcomes of almost every other student group in Riverside County, California, and the United States.In response, Riverside County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Edwin Gomez, announced the new Foster Youth Success Initiative to address these challenges and help foster students move from surviving to striving and thriving.From individual student support tools and foster parent resources to educator training and bridging programs to higher education, the Foster Youth Success
