Award Date

5-1-2024

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Occupational Therapy Doctorate

Department

Brain Health

First Committee Member

Donnamarie Krause

Second Committee Member

Jefferson Kinney

Number of Pages

96

Abstract

The proposed work focused on the development and feasibility of a project aiming to introduce college readiness skills to youth who were in the foster care system in order to increase their perception of self-efficacy in an educational setting. With this increase in self-efficacy, foster youth who are generally disadvantaged when attaining and completing a college degree can have the skills necessary to combat this barrier. The project involved the development of contents of the program and the procedures performed at Bamboo Sunrise Foster Care Agency, where this Capstone project was carried out. Participants in the program consisted of three adolescent females who lived with a foster family represented by Bamboo Sunrise. The outcome of this project focused on the quality and feasibility of the program at Bamboo Sunrise, which was determined through utilization of a quality improvement feedback questionnaire that foster youth participants and staff at Bamboo Sunrise provided input on. Results from participant and staff feedback suggested that although parts of the program, mainly the arts and crafts activities, novel coping strategies, and skills targeted were enjoyable and beneficial for participants, much of the content could be simplified and made more generalizable for those with more difficulty with understanding the more complex concepts.

Keywords

Foster care; Foster youth; higher education; post-secondary education; self-efficacy; skill development

Disciplines

Mental and Social Health | Occupational Therapy

File Format

pdf

File Size

4800 KB

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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