This paper explains why more attention should be paid to promoting the postsecondary education of parents in and aging out of foster care. It reviews what is known about postsecondary educational attainment among parents in or aging out of foster care and these parents’ unique challenges to pursuing postsecondary education. The paper describes the Healthy Teen Network Young Parents Logic Model as a framework to think about the needs of parents in and aging out of foster care, including needs related to postsecondary educational attainment. The paper applies the Young Parents Logic Model and highlights strategies to increase postsecondary educational attainment among young parents in the general population and youth aging out of foster care which can also benefit young parents in foster care or aging out. Using the Young Parents Logic Model as a framework, the paper presents policy and practice recommendations to increase postsecondary educational attainment among young parents in and aging out of foster care and with directions for future research.

本文解释了为什么应该更多地关注促进父母在寄养和养老之外的中学后教育。它回顾了对寄养家庭或老年父母的中学后教育成就的了解，以及这些父母追求中学后教育的独特挑战。该论文将健康青少年网络年轻父母逻辑模型描述为一个框架，以考虑父母在寄养家庭和老龄化方面的需求，包括与中学后教育程度相关的需求。该论文应用了年轻父母逻辑模型，并强调了提高普通人群中年轻父母的中学后教育程度的策略以及离开寄养年龄的年轻人，这也可以使接受寄养或老龄化的年轻父母受益。