"Research has identified higher rates of mental disorders among former child welfare youth and
youth experiencing homelessness when compared with their peers in the general population.
Given the growing number of campus support programs serving these youth, research should
focus on students in these programs to understand whether mental health problems interfere
with these students’ receipt of program services, which can lead to unsatisfactory academic
performance. This study collected both quantitative and qualitative data from students in a
campus support program to examine the prevalence of mental disorders, mental health
service use, receipt of program services, students’ grade point average, and their perceptions
of obstacles and motivations to academic success. Implications for social work research and
practice are discussed"