TIP Mission & Vision
The mission of TIP Wayne State is to increase college access and improve graduation rates of foster care youth from southeast Michigan and advance the educational well-being of youth who age out of foster care throughout the state, through the development and provision of best practices in academic excellence, applied learning, and research that examines issues of strategic importance to the child welfare and education service sector.
In the next five years we envision that the WSU TIP program will become recognized as a premier state and nationally recognized foster care friendly academic institution by:
· Providing comprehensive, direct, wraparound support services to foster care youth who enroll at Wayne State University.
· Providing opportunities for WSU enrolled foster care youth to engage in leadership development.
· Educating child welfare and education leaders and policymakers at the local, state and national level.
· Enhancing the knowledge of child welfare and education practitioners through presentations conducted at local, state, and national conferences and other speaking engagements.
· Researching and testing best practices that increase college access and retention rates of foster care youth.
In the next five years we envision that the WSU TIP program will become recognized as a premier state and nationally recognized foster care friendly academic institution by:
· Providing comprehensive, direct, wraparound support services to foster care youth who enroll at Wayne State University.
· Providing opportunities for WSU enrolled foster care youth to engage in leadership development.
· Educating child welfare and education leaders and policymakers at the local, state and national level.
· Enhancing the knowledge of child welfare and education practitioners through presentations conducted at local, state, and national conferences and other speaking engagements.
· Researching and testing best practices that increase college access and retention rates of foster care youth.