Implementing the Trees Mobile App in Atlantic Canadian PSEs

This grant application is submitted as a matching grant for a ResearchNS funded project to support post-secondary student success for former youth in care. Canada is a signatory on a variety of national and international declarations on education as a human right, it remains unclear how these contribute to improved access to post-secondary education (PSE) and educational attainment among former youth in care (FYIC) such as those from the foster care system (Child Welfare PAC, 2021). We know that FYIC are disadvantaged in our education system. FYIC have, on average, lower educational achievement, higher rates of unemployment, greater likelihood of homelessness, more involvement in the criminal justice system, and worse health and social outcomes overall across their life course than youth not in care (Nichols et al., 2017; Smith et al., 2015; Strand, 2014). Our project can serve an important role in increasing access to PSE for this historically disenfranchised group which in turn may result in increased diversity and representation within Canadian PSE institutions both in terms of the student body as well future teaching faculty in PSE (Harder et al., 2020; Lehmann, 2021; Payne, 2016; Unrau et al., 2012; Watt & Linley, 2013).

Faculty Supervisor:

Vurain Tabvuma;Steven Smith;Katelynn Carter-Rogers

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Partner:

Research Nova Scotia;Ipse Media

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education; Information and cultural industries

University:

Saint Mary's University

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