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2018 California Foster Youth FAFSA Challenge MARCH FYSCP TA CALL John Burton Advocates for Youth 3/2/18 In Infor ormation on to o Par articipate To raise your hand to speak, click the hand icon To submit questions, click on the

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2018 California Foster Youth FAFSA Challenge

MARCH FYSCP TA CALL

John Burton Advocates for Youth

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Ø To raise your hand to speak, click the hand icon Ø To submit questions, click on the “Questions” panel Ø Presentation materials and audio will be posted at http://www.jbaforyouth.org/FAFSAChallenge

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To Today’s Presenters

DEBORAH PRUITT Project Manager John Burton Advocates for Youth MELINDA CLEMMONS Project Consultant John Burton Advocates for Youth KIM SILVA Kern COE ADRIENE METOYER-LEONARD Alameda COE KIM CORNEILLE Santa Cruz COE

2018 FAFSA CHALLENGE FOR CALIFORNIA FOSTER YOUTH John Burton Advocates for Youth

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Re Remember …

§ Chafee Application § Student WebGrants Account

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Noti Notice ce:

March completion report due March 23 (not 3/15) Reports must be received by midnight on March 23. WebGrants – any difficulty accessing your schools, let Deborah know. Deborah@jbay.org

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For your records and to show us why your baseline number might have changed

March 23

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March 23

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Campaign ID = The anonymized identifier you assign to each student. Only due May 31. Can send early if you’re complete.

March 23

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Resources

http://www.jbaforyouth.org/ fafsachallenge

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Resources

http://www.jbaforyouth.org/fafsachallenge

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Resources

http://www.jbaforyouth.org/ fafsachallenge

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Resources

http://www.jbaforyouth.org/fafsachallenge/

JBAY Technical Assistance Melinda Clemmons – Melinda@jbay.org Deborah Pruitt – Deborah@jbay.org

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JBAY WebGrants Manual: FAFSA Verification

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WebGrants Report

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Verify student match – complete FAFSA

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WebGrants GPA Summary Report: Report

Verify GPA match & EFC = complete FAFSA

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Re Resources: JBAY We Web Seminars

Get the links at: http://www.jbaforyouth.org/fafsachallenge/ Demystifying the FAFSA for Foster Youth Detailed instructions for the FAFSA Financial Aid for Foster & Homeless Youth, Part 1: Completing the FAFSA Provides more overview on types of financial aid and how it is awarded TA Webinars: http://www.jbaforyouth.org/fafsa-ta-webinars/

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Facebook

Ø Remember to Like our page! Ø Share our posts on your own pages. Ø Get good ideas and reminders.

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Post…

Ø Your FAFSA Challenge news, events, photos, and video clips Ø Tips and resources Remember to tag the Challenge page in your posts!

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Twitter

Follow us on Twitter @FAFSAChallenge. Let us know who we should be following, too. Social media helps us all connect and share our best resources!

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Send us your news!

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Featured FAFSA Challengers

We’ll be adding a new section of the web page to highlight your: Ø FAFSA Challenge news & events Ø Your successes (tell us when you meet or surpass the 60% goal!) Ø Innovative ideas for FAFSA completion

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Awards!

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Our first round of $1000 awards for highest FAFSA/CADAA completion will be announced during the Foster Youth Education Summit on April 9/10, 2018. (One award will be given to the top county in each of three groupings by size: small, medium, and large counties.)

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Kern County

KIM SILVA

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Valley Farmland Desert Mountains

Kern County

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1, 1,250 250 foster students in Kern County Schools 413 413 fosters in High Schools 113 113 fosters are 12th Graders

1,976

Kern County children/youth currently in foster care

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Ch Challenges s in Kern Co County

  • Size & geography hinders equal access to services

& opportunities

  • Kern has CA’s 5th highest child poverty rate
  • One of CA’s lowest college going rate
  • Less than 1/3 of our students enroll in college
  • 52% of Kern foster students graduation rate vs. 84% Kern
  • verall
  • Recent numbers show that 1 foster youth student in Kern County

drops out of a high school every 3 school days

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Co Collaboration in Ac Action fo for Foster Youth

  • FYSCP located at Dream Center
  • Kern County only one-stop resource center for

current & former foster youth since 2008

  • Co-located with ILP & AB12 social workers,

probation placement officers, public health nurses, mental health therapists, CalFresh/Medi- Cal assistance

  • College/Career support services
  • On-site job readiness counselor
  • College/career workshops
  • Financial aid technical assistance
  • Computer lab
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FY FYSCP P FAFSA Challeng hallenge e Tour ur

  • Monthly Group Home Coalition

meetings

  • Foster Family Agency (FFA) Coalition

meetings

  • Quarterly AB490 Liaison Meetings
  • District LCAP Technical Assistance

meetings

  • ILP Staff Meetings
  • AB12 Staff Meetings
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Wo Work with High School Counselors

  • 56 high schools throughout Kern
  • “FAFSA Challenge Kick Off” presentation at January foster student

counselor meeting

  • How to use Foster Focus to ID & track students to participate in

Challenge

  • Resource table & posters for counselors
  • Created school-specific folders
  • Master copies, resource guides, & stickers
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FA FAFSA Challenge Packet

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Wo Work with High School Counselors

  • Created FYSCP Resource Google Drive with Packet resources along with

additional support service info

  • Emails
  • Regular group emails to sites with events & resources from JBAY webinars
  • FAFSA completion reports with student status & site completion rate
  • Sent high school individual completion rates to district AB490 liaison for extra support
  • “FAFSA Check-ins” during school & district technical assistance calls
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Fo Foster Youth Organizations

21 YES! Orgs at high schools, court & community schools

  • Created in 2016 with FYSCP & Kern

High School District to mentor & empower foster youth

  • Voluntary & youth-driven, YES! provides

campus community for foster youth

  • Meet monthly to hear guest speakers on topics chosen by the youth, attend

field trips & participate in leadership & community service opportunities

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Im Impo portant t Community unity Partner tnership hips

  • Youth 2 Leaders (Y2L)
  • Americorps volunteers facilitate our YES! Orgs at Juvenile Detention

Center & community schools

  • Provide students case management & college/career transition plan
  • 12th graders at court & community receive one-on-one FAFSA assistance
  • Bakersfield Community College
  • Monthly foster youth 12th grader counts by school with foster youth

counselor contact info to set up on site

  • Host FAFSA workshops for ILP foster youth in evenings to complete

application

  • Career exploration field trips to campus with presentations by current

students

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Annual Conference

250 attendees & 50 high school students FAFSA Challenge promotion materials displayed & given to every attendee Vendor Fair included FAFSA Challenge partners- Bakersfield College & Y2L “FAFSA Ambassadors”

3rd Annual event held February 23, 2018

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Ch Challe llenges & s & L Lesso ssons L s Learned

Short timeline Reaching out to outlying communities Limited number of resources & adults/mentors to speak to students about higher education Students unaware of their financial aid status Students not knowing their social security or personal information Students in “survival mode” vs. long-term preparation mode Student mobility

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Pl Planned Ne Next t St Steps

§ Start early & talk often

  • Back-to-School Events, YES! Meetings, ILP workshops
  • Provide more school staff trainings on resources & financial aid that foster students

are eligible for § Expand # of YES! organizations in 2018-19…especially in outlying areas § Implement FAFSA Ambassador program into all YES! programs as leadership activity § Build relationships with community colleges in west, east & north Kern to mirror Bakersfield College efforts § Train high school counselors on Foster Focus Grad Tracker feature

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Kern County FYSCP Resource Google Drive https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jqXVdXcCHEJBar3RA5C74BkNPNxuSEo m?usp=sharing Kern FAFSA Challenge Packet Folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jq3-sG- V63SV3bmCpgfzQwpe9ZU4KSHy?usp=sharing

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Kern County Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program

Kim Silva Research Associate kisilva@kern.org 661.636.4948

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Alameda County

ADRIENE METOYER-LEONARD

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Internal

Queried reports from both CALPADS and Foster Focus that identified all 12th graders in our jurisdiction living both in and out of Alameda County. Shared data with our FYSCP Education Mentors. FYSCP Mentors reviewed data and reached out to the identified youth’s high school counselors and child welfare workers. FYSCP Director shared data with Alameda’s Foster Youth District Liaisons.

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Collaboration

DCFS Education Liaison - email blast regarding FAFSA Challenge to Child Welfare Workers

Collaborated efforts with Beyond Emancipation/ ILP.

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Ongoing Strategy for Supporting Post-Secondary Goals

Participate in Alameda County Bridge to College Collaborative. Collaborative includes wide range of stakeholders including ILP, FYSCP, CAFYES/NextUp staff, CSU East Bay Renaissance Scholars Coordinator, Dependency Attorney, Child Welfare, and John Burton Advocates for Youth. Collaborative meets regularly and has a clear plan for its scope of work and the roles for each stakeholder in three areas:

  • Connecting more foster youth to college
  • Connecting foster youth already in college to campus support programs
  • Improving the rates of persistence and graduation of foster

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Santa Cruz County

KIM CORNEILLE

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Santa Cruz

FosterEd education teaming model Collaborating with Independent Living Program coordinators

Student Success

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Qu Ques estion & A & Answer er

Ø CLICK ON THE “QUESTIONS” PANEL, TYPE QUESTION AND HIT “SEND” OR Ø RAISE YOUR HAND IN THE ATTENDEE PANEL

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Next FAFSA Friday TA Call/Webinar: April 6, 2018 10-11am