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Center for Student Success

Fostering Independence

Fostering Independence is a psychoeducational support group for students enrolled who have previously been in foster care or kinship care or are experiencing homelessness or navigating college without family support.  The program connects students to resources and teaches independent living skills. The Center for Student Success is working in collaboration with the Marshall University Counseling Center and Level Up, a program through the Marshall University Center of Excellence for Recovery.

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Statewide Recognition

State-wide recognition: Marshall University’s Fostering Independence program won “Best Innovative Program” at the 2025 Fall West Virginia Association of Student Personnel Administrators (WVASPA) conference in Fairmont, WV, November 12, 2025.

Fostering Independence students Teanna Stubbs, Xavier Jackson, and Marley Hudson-Michael and CSS Assistant Director Morgan Conley participated in a panel presentation: “It Takes a Village: Supporting Students from Foster and Kinship Care through Campus Collaboration.” The panel was moderated by Psychology Graduate Student and CSS GA Gabby Casey.