PRESENTATIONS | Angela E. Hoffman

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Angela Hoffman-Cooper

Advocate. Educator. Scholar.

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Publications

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Hoffman-Cooper, A. E. (2021). From foster youth to foster scholar: Suggestions for emancipatory research practices. Children and Youth Services Review, 120, 105752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105752

Presentations

February 2020 - National Conference for Engaged Scholarship on Foster Alumni

Powerpoint Slide Strengths Perspective - Paradigm shift from deficit perspective and "riskness". Identifying and implementing strengths to promote empiowerment, possibility, hope, and goal attainment. Conferring agent status. Does not ignore systemic barriers or dismiss the experience of pain and marginalization.

Fostering Risk or Resilience: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Campus-Based Support for Students with Experience in Foster Care. Hoffman, A. E. (2020).

November 2019 - Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference

Powerpoint Slide. Campus-based support programs both resist and reproduce dominant narratives that construct the identity of students with expereince in foster care in a deficit manner.

Critical Discourse Analysis of Campus-Based Support for Students with Experience in Foster Care. Hoffman, A. E. (2019).

April 2019 - Michigan College Access Programs and Personnel Conference

Powerpoint Slide. Life & Educationn Transitions. 5+ school changes, 4-6 months of progress lost with each school change, 50+ repeat a grade, 2 years in care on average, 3 placements on average, 25% experience PTSF, 50% reunnited with parents/primary caregiver.

Foster Care & K-12 Educators: Strategies for Supporting Students with Experience in Foster Care. Hoffman, A. E. (2019).

Powerpoint Slide. In 2008, the Higher Education Act "makes homeless children and youth, or youth inn foster care (including youth who have left foster care after reaching age 13), automatically eligible for TRiO programs.

Foster Care & TRIO Staff: Strategies for Supporting Students with Experience in Foster Care. Hoffman, A. E. (2019).

March 2019 - NASPA Annual Conference