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Pasadena City College to Receive Funds from $15 million State Grant for Foster Care Students

Published on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 | 5:21 pm
 

Pasadena City College will be receiving part of a $15 million grant that the California Community College Chancellor’s Office is giving to ten schools in the state to help foster youth pay for their educational needs.

The grant is called the Cooperating Agencies Foster Youth Educational Support Program (CAFYES) and is supported by the Student Services and Special Programs Division at the CCC Chancellor’s Office.

Established by the state Senate in 2014, its main objective is to provide a necessary means for encouraging current and former foster youth to continue and complete their education.

It is not known how much of the fund will be available for Pasadena City College.

“It doesn’t mean that each school will get that $15 million divided by 10,” the PCC Courier quotes Nancy Roberts, a grants specialist at PCC, as saying. “It depends on the services offered and how many students we are serving, and that’s part of what I imagine will influence negotiation.”

Final approval of the grant is by November 17th, after which the exact list and amounts to be given will be determined.

Pasadena City College has requested $2,004,896 over three years from the fund. Roberts said the CCC Chancellor’s Office has indicated it could award the equivalent of anywhere between $3,000 and $5,000 per student.

“In the past we’ve been able to get these little grants to do activities. Once the funding is over, it’s done.” said Niki Dixon Harrison, the acting director of Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOP&S).

“This is institutional; this funding will allow us to institutionalize ongoing support and monitoring of the foster care students here at PCC,” Dixon Harrison, acting director at PCC’s Extended Opportunity Programs and Services office.

As of Fall 2015, PCC has recorded 163 current and former foster youth as college students. Harrison said 100 of these may qualify for the grant.

PCC said the fund would pay for books, meal tickets, transportation, caps and gowns, and provide some support for those in need of housing, offer childcare assistance and plan events that will ultimately support students in their graduation.

The city college is also eyeing the construction of a center for foster care students.

 

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