February 17, 2020: Shaquille O'Neal attended the premier of Foster Boy at the Pan African Film Festival on Monday night. While there he met students from the First Star UCLA Bruin Guardian Scholars Academy. Shaq is focused on bringing awareness to the foster care system as the executive producer of “Foster Boy,” a film [...]
First Star' makes college real for kids in foster care By Christine Devine 8/20/19 Back to school means continued college prep time for an unlikely group of high school seniors like Khalia, with higher education in mind. Thanks to a non-profit called First Star youth in foster care have been groomed for college since the [...]
How First Star is changing the odds for youth in foster care an interview with Christine Devine and the staff and students of First Star. Part One (click to listen) Part Two (click to listen)
#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 [...]
Keeping up in school is no easy task for youth in foster care. Lonnell on Graduating From College _ To Foster Change
Daily Bruin August 1, 2016 Rosie Chavez has lived most of her life in the foster system moving to different schools, homes and families, sometimes spending only a couple weeks in one place. “One thing I really struggled with was fitting in with the families,” Chavez said. “They didn’t treat us like they treated their [...]
