By this fall, 24 former foster youth will attend classes at the nation’s first college specifically for former foster youth.
Riverbend Center for Higher Education, operated by nonprofit child welfare service provider KVC Health Systems, will open in Montgomery, West Virginia, in July, enrolling students for the fall semester.
Operating in partnership with BridgeValley Community and Technical College, a community college with two locations in in the state, Riverbend will offer programming and support for the former foster youth it serves.
“The college community is a longtime dream,” said Tommy Bailey, executive vice president for strategic initiatives at KVC. “As an organization with a long, successful past of providing critical services to children and families, KVC understands the vital role the campus will play in the lives of so many youth aging out of care without a support system or community to help them transition successfully.”
[For more of this story, written by Kim Phagan-Hansel, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...will-open-july/30538]
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