Guardian Scholars

Why We are Here

Across the nation, approximately 400,000 children are temporarily placed in foster care because their families are unable to care for them. Over 60,000 live in California.

Though 70 percent of foster youth express an interest in college, only 50 percent graduate from high school, 20 percent enroll in college, and only 3 percent graduate from college.

It is the intent of our two foster youth student success programs NextUp and Guardian scholars to encourage the enrollment, retention, and transfer of “current and former” foster youth at SJCC.