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Camp Hope: Defending a Student-Centered Model for Improving Education in the Foster Care Community & Abroad
Description
Camp Hope is an organization dedicated to motivating children in foster care to pursue higher education. In this paper, the organization's founder applies the engineering design process to the problems currently facing Arizona's foster care system. What emerges is Camp Hope (i.e. the "product") and in turn a model by which it can be promulgated throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area and abroad. Prototype camps held abroad in Mexico, and at local group homes in Tempe, Arizona verify the initial user inputs with 68% of campers reporting new academic interests in pre/post camp surveys. Future work includes continued fine-tuning of the model through continued Arizona camps, and longer-term surveys tracking the development of children who participate in the program.
Date Created
2013-05
Contributors
- Saez, Neil Alexander (Author)
- LaBelle, Jeffrey (Thesis director)
- Pizziconi, Vincent (Committee member)
- Fitzgerald, Charles A. (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- Harrington Bioengineering Program (Contributor)
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42 pages
Language
eng
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2012-2013
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17021
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minimal
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