Educational Advocacy

Advocates help students hurdle obstacles.

Treehouse educational advocates are experts who work with schools, social workers, foster families and students to resolve difficult issues and remove barriers to foster kids’ school success. Advocates’ work includes

  • helping students access education-related support services, including special education;
  • preventing school changes when students’ home placements change;
  • paving the way for seamless transitions when school changes are unavoidable;
  • minimizing the effects of disciplinary actions that keep students out of school; and
  • training caregivers, social workers and the students themselves to advocate for students’ educational rights.
Educational Advocacy services have been available to children statewide since 2006, when Treehouse received an exclusive contract to replicate this groundbreaking program in all six Department of Social and Health Services regions, from Aberdeen to Palouse.

Foster Care Fact

  • Within 18 months of aging out, between 40% and 50% of foster youth become homeless.