The Fostering Success Program at CSU is a donor funded community of about 300 students from independent backgrounds and CSU faculty/staff volunteers that provide scholarships, fun events, academic support, and many other resources to Rams.
Mission
Utilizing a solution focused approach, we provide academic, financial, personal, and career support. By co-constructing a web of resources, students create an empowered and confident community working toward graduation.
Vision
The Fostering Success Program builds a sense of belonging and support among independent students to foster growth and success in college and beyond.
Backgrounds
Fostering Success Program invites CSU students who experienced one or more of the following independent backgrounds between the ages of 13-23 years old to be part of FSP:
- Foster Care: a child in 24-hour substitute care placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the State agency has placement and care responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, placements in foster family homes, foster homes of relatives, group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, child care institutions, and pre-adoptive homes.
- Orphan: a youth with both biological parents deceased
- Dependent or Ward of the Court: a minor who was placed in the custody of a court appointed guardian or the court has assumed custody.
- Legal guardianship: a minor placed in the custody of a court appointed guardian.
- Kinship care: a minor placed in the custody of a relative by a court or Department of Human Services.
- Homelessness in youth, without the presence of a parent or guardian and/or McKinney Vento Unaccompanied Youth. This category does not include homeless veterans.
- Emancipation: a minor pursued a legal process before the age of 18 so biological parents no longer have custody
- Other: Independent appeal (ie student has no emotional and financial relationship with parents, such as abandonment by parents, abusive family environment that threatens the student’s health or safety or student is unable to locate parents)