http://youthtoday.org/2016/03/giving-foster-youth-a-chance-at-college/ The Academy (program) was created as a partnership between the nonprofit First Star Academies, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, and one of the nation’s top public universities. By the following summer, Turner had joined a cohort of other foster youth heading into high school who first spent three weeks [...]
http://web.uri.edu/quadangles/mission-possible-2/ August 28, 2015 The chaotic early lives many foster children experience can have far-reaching consequences, including abysmal college completion rates. A groundbreaking program is setting out to change that, helping abused and neglected children create better todays, and tomorrows. By Dave Lavallee ’79, M.P.A. ’87 Jenelle is doing two important things this fall: beginning her first [...]
Greetings! As you may know, our three-week residential component of our program ended on August 1st. The students in our Cohort 2 (soon to be High School Sophomores) spent one week at UCLA's Unicamp before spending three weeks at the UCLA campus. During their three week stay students learned about about life skills & self-advocacy [...]