Children Youth and Family Collaborative

This grant will support one of the most powerful strategies, Dual Enrollment, which will increase foster youth college access and degree completion CYFC formed the Partnership Pipeline for Persistence (PPP), a public-private collaborative effort that brings together schools, districts, community colleges, DCFS, service providers, and philanthropy to support foster youth taking Dual Enrollment classes in two school districts. Program services will include outreach, enrollment, dedicated tutoring, educational case management and college access.

In order to transform the educational equity and career opportunities of foster youth, CYFC is launching a multi-systems effort to provide Dual Enrollment college classes to system-involved foster youth attending schools in seven Greater Los Angeles school districts. Having access to Dual Enrollment is a game-changer for their ability to pursue their college dreams and earn a degree. Dual Enrollment classes will be offered to students at no cost, and CYFC's A.R.I.S.S.E. program will provide the academic supports that will ensure their success.

United for CAPS (Career And Pathways to Success) is a collaborative, wrap-around effort designed to envelop foster youth in a college-going culture with individualized academic support, college access navigation and college retention services. Like a supportive family network, we provide college tours, a warm hand-off to college, care packages, financial support and crisis management assistant all designed to keep foster youth in college through degree completion.