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Education

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

Shawn's Road to Independence

Shawn was diagnosed with a developmental disability as a child, making everyday tasks difficult. Since 2011, he has lived at a supportive Foundling residence in Rockland County, and for the past five years, has received additional skills training through our Community Habilitation program. Given his disability, he faces numerous challenges in daily life – but with The Foundling providing a helping hand, Shawn has made tremendous strides toward independence.

For Shawn, learning to drive has been one of his personal goals for more than five years, though he hadn’t yet succeeded in passing his permit test. When Shawn’s routine was upended during the pandemic, he took a renewed approach to studying, while being supported by his Foundling Community Habilitation Specialist. Together, they reviewed sample tests and went on the road to practice concepts firsthand. In September, Shawn took the exam again—and passed with a perfect score. He now looks forward to beginning driving lessons and pursuing the new opportunities that a license will bring. With The Foundling helping him navigate, Shawn looks forward to steering the way toward further independence.

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Our Continued

Impact

283
students in foster care across NYC receive high quality tutoring from Road to Success Citywide
Up to 96%
of families avoided foster care placement
Nearly 50,000
NYC children and families participate in prevention programs every year
21%+
of the population of Puerto Rico has at least one developmental disability
95%
of young adults in our supportive housing program have transitioned to permanent housing
2.1M
youth under the age of 18 arrested in the United States every year
DID YOU KNOW
More youth are placed in foster care in the Bronx than any other borough of New York City

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