The Social Workers Radio Talk Show

Foster Care Youth + Higher Education: A Conversation During Covid-19

Episode Summary

Sarah Mountz is an Assistant Professor at UAlbany’s School of Social Welfare and a faculty advisor of Fostering Leaders of Our World, a UAlbany student group composed of students with foster care backgrounds and their allies. She is joined by Selena Snow, the student Vice President of F.L.O.W., and they speak about the barriers to foster youth in higher education, how COVID-19 has impacted college students in foster care, what is being done at state levels to assist foster care youth during this time, and how social workers can support foster care youth.

Episode Notes

Sarah Mountz is an Assistant Professor at UAlbany’s School of Social Welfare and a faculty advisor of Fostering Leaders of Our World, a UAlbany student group composed of students with foster care backgrounds and their allies. She is joined by Selena Snow, the student Vice President of F.L.O.W., and they speak about the barriers to foster youth in higher education, how COVID-19 has impacted college students in foster care, what is being done at state levels to assist foster care youth during this time, and how social workers can support foster care youth.

 

Bios:

Selena Snow is finishing her sophomore year at UAlbany, where she is majoring in Psychology and minoring in Social Welfare. Selena has been in foster care since the age of three and is the vice president of the student organization, Fostering Leaders of Our World (F.L.O.W). F.L.O.W.'s mission is to advocate for improved educational access for foster youth and to raise awareness on campus about the experiences of UAlbany students with foster care backgrounds and to provide peer support.
 

Sarah Mountz is an Assistant Professor at University at Albany School of Social Welfare, where she teaches courses in Participatory Action Research, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, and Trauma Informed Child Welfare Practice. Dr. Mountz' research focuses on the experiences of systems involved LGBTQ youth and the educational experiences of foster care alumni. She is especially interested in youth organizing and activism.