College Students with Foster Care Experiences

Episode Description College students with experiences in the foster care system are often not central to institutionalized support within student affairs and higher education. Dra. Susana Muñoz meets with Angela Hoffman Copper, Dr. Royel Johnson, and Kenyon Lee Whitman about ways higher education and student affairs can better support college students with foster care experiences. Suggested APA Episode Citation Muñoz, S. (Host). (2021, July 28). College Students with Foster Care Experiences. (No. 51) [Audio podcast episode]. In Student Affairs NOW https://studentaffairsnow.com/foster-care/ Episode Transcript Kenyon Lee Whitman:Well, foster care as it was modernized not its inception, but as it was modernized was actually in-home services primarily afforded to white mothers. And then as black people gained more rights in the fifties and forward they did not walk black mothers who access those in-home services, especially with this whole like hysteria around the child welfare. Right. So then instead of offering in-home services, they then created out of home foster care because they did not want to give money to black mothers, but they would say, we will take care of her child if you can not take care of them. Susana Muñoz:Hello and welcome to Student Affairs Now. I'm your host Susana Muñoz. Today on the podcast. We're discussing college students who have experienced foster care. As we get ready to welcome college students back to our college campuses, how are we mindful of our language around family parents support or how we're using asset-based the framing in our work with college students with foster care experiences. Student Affairs Now is the premier podcast and learning community for thousands of us who work in alongside or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs. We hope that you'll find these conversations, make a contribution to the field and are restorative to the profession. We release new episodes every week on Wednesdays. Find us at studentaffairsnow.com on Twitter, our episodes today are sponsored by LeaderShape and EverFi. As I mentioned, I'm your host, Susana Muñoz. Susana Muñoz:My pronouns are she her hers, ella and I'm broadcasting from Colorado, Fort Collins, near the campus of Colorado state university, which occupies the ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne Arapaho and people from wherever you're listening today, we urge you to investigate the original occupants of the land. I am thrilled to have the following individuals present for today's conversation. Let me introduce our panelists. We have Angela Hoffman-Cooper, Kenyon Lee Whitman, and Royel Johnson. So if each of you can introduce yourself to our listeners, please tell us a little bit about your interests and how you're entering into the conversation today. We'll start with Angela. Angela Hoffman-Cooper:Thank you, Dr. Munoz. I'm really excited to be here today. My name is Angela Hoffman-Cooper. I use pronouns, she and her, and I'm really grateful for the opportunity to reflect on my positionality. And it's something that I do regularly in terms of how I enter into the work of supporting students with experience in foster care, in terms of practice, research and advocacy.