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    Fostering College Success Initiative (formerly known as The Dorm Project)

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    College life comes with its own challenges for students in foster care, as they often struggle to fit in and keep up academically with their more advantaged peers. The Foundling’s Fostering College Success Initiative was founded to provide comprehensive academic and social supports to help young people in foster care across all of New York City’s foster care system succeed in college and beyond.

    The Fostering College Success Initiative has built upon The Foundling’s unique capacity for supporting the educational achievement of older adolescents. The Initiative targets the increasing number of older youth in foster care and provides a wide range of supports – academic, social, financial, and professional – to prepare students to graduate from college with a four-year degree, ensuring a better future. Participants are supported by College Success Coaches who are deeply in touch with and trained to respond to the issues that this unique population faces. The program also includes career counseling and academic support that is provided by a team of tutors who ensure that each student is prepared to pass their classes, develop effective study habits, choose a major, and implement a long-term academic plan.

    This program is a collaboration with the Administration of Children’s Services, and works closely with the City University of New York (CUNY) and other universities.

    The Fostering College Success Initiative now has rolling admissions – view the application here. 

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    Success Stories

    Tajuana has begun the process of adopting her two young…

    Tajuana has begun the process of adopting her two young cousins with special needs, for whom she has been a foster parent for 7 years. Already a mother to three grown children, a grandmother, and a foster parent to another child, Tajuana is committed to providing children in need with a loving supportive home.

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    Tajuana

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    Impact

    153
    years providing life changing services to children, families, and adults in New York
    82%
    of Road to Success participants graduate from high school, higher than the rate in NYC
    20%
    of youth between the ages of 13-18 live with a mental health condition
    $5
    donation launched The Foundling's work in 1869
    Nearly 50,000
    NYC children and families participate in prevention programs every year
    59,000+
    investigations into child abuse and neglect occur every year in NYC
    DID YOU KNOW
    The Foundling's Implementation Support Center works with organizations across the world to help them identify and implement evidence based programs

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