The Seven Life Domains Framework, adapted from the Casey Family Programs "It's My Life" Seven Life Domains (2001), identifies seven areas for potential support that youth with experience in foster care need in order to transition successfully from foster care to adulthood. Concentrating on postsecondary access and success, Western Michigan University's Center for Fostering Success (of which Fostering Success Michigan began in 2012) adapted the model and placed education as the central focus. Although each domain is critical in its own way and is interwoven with each other domain, having education in the center visually expresses the support needed in order for a youth with experience in foster care to further his or her education. The framework gives the students, their supportive adults, and professionals an organized way to initiate that support as well as identify existing strengths in the students complex lives (Day, Schmidt, and Unrau, 2017).

Over the years, many of the campuses and partners in the FSM Network have adapted the visual below to explain their work, orient students to campus coaching, and identify resource gaps in their network.