When trying to improve outcomes for a specific population, such as youth in foster care, Fedcap looks for precise interventions within a system that can make profound impact

When seeking to identify precise interventions we conduct extensive “discovery." In the case of changing the poor college attendance and graduation outcomes for youth in foster care we held extensive focus groups with:

Fedcap’s Approach:

• child welfare leaders youth in foster care
• youth who had successfully transitioned from care to college but dropped out
• youth from care who graduated from college

We determined that a missing gap was engagement of caregivers