Foster Focus: Data Sharing of Individualized Student Information

Trish Kennedy, DirectorSacramento County Office of EducationFoster Youth Services

Overview

• Information Foster Focus stores

• Three methods of input

• How sharing the information benefits youth, schools, social workers and the courts

Link to the name of the school imported from the district. If it says “Unknown” the entry was made by hand.

Link to more detail

Link to previous year

OSS = Out of School Suspensions – linked or hand enteredISS = In School Suspensions – linked or hand enteredMissed = Days Missed Between Enrollments – only hand enteredExpelled – only hand entered here but captured by link in enrollment

Attendance for all yearsLinked or hand entered

Figure 5 Depicts Attendance Summary

Figure 6 shows the detail for September 2011

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Link to more detail

Looking at data collected in Foster Focus may help you target specific grade levels, school sites

School Stability

Includes CWS and Probation Placements. Includes multiple enrollments at the same school site.

Graduation/HS Completion