webinar

Hidden in Plain Sight

DATE

February 6, 2025

TIME

noon-1p ET / 9-10a PT

LOCATION

Virtual

Research on the Education of Students Experiencing Homelessness, Foster Care, and/or Incarceration

More than 1.6 million students in the US navigate K12 education while experiencing homelessness, foster care, and/or incarceration. What does research tell us about their education experiences and outcomes?
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Co-sponsored by Youth Transition Funders Group

Join GTY and the Youth Transition Funders Group to explore findings from a newly released research scan commissioned by The Annie E. Casey Foundation. The scan analyzed 200+ publications and 27 clearinghouses, revealing gaps in the evidence base and blind spots in how we study and understand these students’ educational experiences. Join the study’s authors to discuss the findings and next steps, including the vital role of research partnerships and critical investment opportunities for philanthropy.

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Speakers

Ilene Berman

Evidence-Based Practice Group Director, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Ilene Berman is the Evidence-Based Practice Group director at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, where she works to help public systems, schools and communities partner to improve child well-being. She also oversees grants that expand the availability and use of evidence-based programs and practices.

Before joining the Foundation in 2011, Berman was program director at the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices Education Division and led projects on policy issues, including Common Core State Standards, high school redesign, school choice and literacy. Besides authoring publications on these topics, she has been a member of national advisory boards dedicated to advancing education reform. Berman has also served as a director at the Council for Basic Education and the National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform. She taught high school English for eight years in Washington, D.C., and graduate courses at George Washington University. Berman holds B.A. and M.S. Ed. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree from St. John’s College and an Ed.D. in education policy and administration from George Washington University.

Maddy Day

Founder, Maddy Day, LLC, and Associates

Maddy believes that all students have the right to equitable resources and support to help them reach their education goals. In 2010, Maddy co-founded the University of Washington Champions Program, from 2012-2018 she directed the Fostering Success Michigan statewide initiative at Western Michigan University and since 2018 has served as a consultant to nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and state agencies focused on improving the lives of young adults who have experience in foster care, homelessness, and those who are first generation, low-income college students, and students of color. A child welfare and education expert, Maddy is the Proprietor and Senior Consultant with Maddy Day LLC & Associates. Maddy is a Results Count Advanced Practitioner, an Associate Diversity Coach through Coach Diversity Institute, and applies a race equity lens to all her work.

Stephanie Malia Krauss

Founder and Principal, First Quarter Strategies & Staff Consultant, YTFG

Stephanie Malia Krauss works with leaders in education, youth development, workforce development, and human services to develop and implement holistic and humane solutions that enable young people and their families to build livable, lovable lives.

She is the founder and principal consultant of First Quarter Strategies LLC, a senior fellow at the Boston University School of Social Work, a senior advisor for Youth-Nex at University of Virginia and Children’s Funding Project, and a staff consultant for the Youth Transition Funders Group.

​She has written two books: Whole Child, Whole Life: 10 Ways to Help Kids Live, Learn, and Thrive and Making It: What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World. Her work has been featured on NPR, PBS, US News, EdSurge, Scary Mommy, and more.

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