The Foster Youth Pre-College Collective

Established in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, the Collective is led by six of California’s leading direct service organizations - First Star, Inc., Children Youth and Family Collaborative (CYFC), National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), Pivotal, Promises2Kids, and United Friends of the Children. Collectively, the organizations span 10 California counties, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. Member organizations offer transformational, community-based programs that achieve a combined high school graduation rate of 88.4% for students in foster care, with 83% of graduating seniors enrolling in post-secondary education. With foster youth continuing to lag behind nearly every population of students in California, the Collective seeks to create a sustainable public funding source dedicated to providing all foster youth in California with the support they need to graduate from high school and successfully pursue progressive post-secondary educational and career development pathways aligned with their interests and goals.