ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact
First Star ASU Academy gives foster youth confidence in their future January 28, 2019 For the thousands of Arizona youth currently in foster care, obtaining a college education is an achievement that may seem out of reach. But Arizona State University and national nonprofit First Star are working together to help these students envision a future that [...]
WellCare Donates $500,000 to First Star
WellCare Donates $500,000 to First Star’s Groundbreaking Educational Program for Foster Youth Advancing Better Lives for Foster Youth in Arizona PHOENIX and TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 12, 2018) — In Arizona and elsewhere, all too often young people in foster care lack opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills they need to navigate the [...]
Center For Social Justice 12 in 24 Initiative Headed by First Star UK
The Centre for Social Justice - The Leader Column Wandering around a UK university campus, you’re more likely to bump into an undergraduate from Cyprus than one who grew up in a care home. At the moment about six per cent of care leavers get onto a University degree - a figure that hasn't moved [...]
Tour 2018 – players coach local foster kids in LA
#SpursInUSA #GlobalFootballDevelopment #Foundation 29 July 2018|Tottenham Hotspur Five of our players paid a surprise visit to a special coaching session for local foster children's project First Star in Los Angeles on Friday. Forty children from the project and their mentors joined our Global Football Development team for the session at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), our training base [...]
Our 2018 CSI Staten Island Academy in the news
https://www.silive.com/news/2018/07/foster_youth_learn_academic_li.html By Annalise Knudson STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- High school students in foster care from schools across New York City were given the opportunity to live and study at the College of Staten Island this summer. Through a new program, First Star Academy at the College of Staten Island, students lived on the Willowbrook campus in [...]
First Star University of Utah Academy December Newsletter
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ASU Academy Kick Off
On Saturday, December 2, First Star ASU held a kickoff event for our foster youth students and their families. An Arizona State University student panel welcomed First Star youth and presented their stories on how they ended up at the university as well as sharing their insights as former youth themselves. From there, the youth [...]
First Star University of Miami Academy – Foster Care Youth Support
The Children and Youth Law Clinic is a key partner, along with UM’s School of Education and Human Development, in First Star University of Miami Academy -- a holistic college prep program for youth impacted by the child welfare system. Foster youth can get tuition waived at Florida state colleges, but lacking the skills, study habits and [...]