{"id":207863,"date":"2020-06-17T22:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=207863"},"modified":"2020-06-17T22:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:15:15","slug":"fostering-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2020\/06\/17\/fostering-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">t\u2019s not always easy to know what students have been going through when they enter the classroom. For many, the struggle is real, whether it\u2019s having enough to eat or having a place to live. For students who have grown up in foster care, the obstacles are especially challenging. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhen in foster care, there\u2019s no primer on what to do,\u201d says Psychology Professor Deborah Fish Ragin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Their challenges have inspired Ragin as she retires from Montclair State to give a faculty gift of $100,000 to Red Hawk Fellows, a support program for foster youth and other undergraduates who are homeless, legally separated from parents or independent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The gift reflects Ragin\u2019s mission to help these struggling students as a personal tribute to her father, John Fish. \u201cI am a daughter of a man who was in foster care, not once, but twice,\u201d Ragin says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more about Professor Deborah Fish Ragin in the Spring\/Summer issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/magazine\/spring-summer-2020\/fostering-success\/\">Montclair Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Deborah Fish Ragin retires, she leaves a legacy to help foster-care children attend college and graduate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":207864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-268_psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207865,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207863\/revisions\/207865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}