Foster Care Education
Contact
Keri Pruitt, MPH
Program Coordinator
Educational Liaison
Washoe County
Department of Social Services
Children's Services
P.O. Box 11130
Reno NV 89520
(775) 328-3914
(775) 337-4478 (fax)
KPruitt@washoecounty.us
Program Coordinator
Educational Liaison
Washoe County
Department of Social Services
Children's Services
P.O. Box 11130
Reno NV 89520
(775) 328-3914
(775) 337-4478 (fax)
KPruitt@washoecounty.us
Performance Measures
Initiative to Improve Educational Outcomes With Foster Children
Input Measures of Capacity and Resources
- Provide services to 100 individual advocacy cases each year
- Involve 200 professionals in at least annual systems training opportunities each year
- Convene at least quarterly policy development meetings
- Successfully implement data collection in at least five of the targeted baseline data sets
Desired Effect and Impact on Dependent Children
- Decrease in the number of school transfers
- Decrease in the number of high school dropouts
- Increase in the number of dependent children who go on to college or vocational training after high school
- Decrease suspensions and expulsions from school
- Decrease in repeating a grade
Quality Measures
- Successfully conclude 75% of the advocacy cases
- Earn an Above Average rating in training evaluations from 60% of the participants
- 100% of the policies developed will be accepted by system authorities
- Produce annual reports and analysis of baseline data and include in project evaluation