ATTENTION STUDENTS STARTING COLLEGE IN The Foster SEPTEMBER 2016 Youth College Success Initiative
WHAT IS THE FYCSI? The Foster Youth College Success Initiative (FYCSI) was established in 2015 to increase the population of foster youth, orphans, and wards of the court who apply, attend and graduate from college in New York State. By providing financial assistance and support services, FYCSI also makes college completion a reality for eligible students.
Additional Funding Has Been Made Available To Support SUNY: Educational Opportunity Programs Foster Youth Attending CUNY: SEEK or College Discovery Private Colleges: Higher Education College Through These Opportunity Programs For questions about the production of this brochure, please contact Opportunity Programs [email protected] Eligible foster youth must be already enrolled in/or applying to an opportunity program at a participating institution. For information, visit www.fysany.org/faq
FYSA is a statewide group of advocates concerned with advancing state policies, and securing public resources to improve outcomes for foster youth. Foster Youth College Success Initiative
How Can the FYCSI Program Am I Eligible? How do I participate in the Most students who receive FYCSI support For more information about the FYCSI and Some college applications may ask if will apply and be admitted to an Opportunity the eligibility requirements to participate in you are a foster youth, orphaned, or ward Help You? All students ― regardless of immigration FYCSI? Program. For students participating in an an opportunity program, please follow the of the court. Although not mandatory, status ― are eligible to access funding and FYCSI was designed to remove financial FYCSI operates as part of New York State’s Opportunity Program there is no separate instructions based on where you plan to identifying yourself on the application will resources through FYCSI, if they meet the barriers that may prevent students from opportunity programs. An opportunity application for FYCSI. New York State attend college. increase the likelihood that you will be eligibility criteria defined below: completing college as attending college program is designed to provide college Opportunity Programs include: considered for participation in the FYCSI. • CUNY Students or Applicants: can be very expensive, funding through 1. Are currently resident of New York access to students who are considered • College Discovery (CD) & Search for Contact Shirley DePena, For additional information or questions the Foster Youth College Success Initiative State; academically underprepared and financially Education Elevation Knowledge (SEEK)- Director of Youth Matter. relating to the statewide policy that supports the cost of college attendance disadvantaged, but demonstrate the 2. Became a foster youth, orphan, or ward City University of New York (CUNY) [email protected] established the FYCSI please contact: including, but not limited to: potential to complete college. Opportunity of the court at any time after your 13th [email protected] Program students receive a variety of • Educational Opportunity Program • SUNY Students or Applicants: birthday. Students will have to present • Tuition and Fees services to help them achieve success. (EOP) - State University of New York Contact the EOP office at the SUNY official documentation from the family • Meals & Housing, including Services include counseling, tutoring/ (SUNY) college(s) to which you are applying or court, a school official, academic support, skill development Osei Agyeman, Foster Youth College recess/intersession housing a caseworker, or a foster care agency • Higher Educational Opportunity workshops (time management, Success Initiative Coordinator and or death certificates in order to confirm Program (HEOP) - Private Colleges and • Books & Supplies organizational skills, and study skills) and Campus Liaison. they are/were a foster youth, orphaned, Universities • Transportation developmental instruction. [email protected] or a ward or the court; and Recent changes to the Foster Youth College Not all colleges and universities in New • SUNY Non-EOP Students or • Advisement, Tutoring, and 3. Are admitted and enrolled in a SUNY Success Initiative program provide access to York State offer an Opportunity Program. Applicants: Contact the financial aid Academic Support or CUNY college or university, or at students who either attend colleges that do not However, based on recent changes to office at the school you are attending a private college or university that participate in Opportunity Programs or attend • Personal Expenses the law, there may be opportunities or plan to apply to. participates in the FYCSI program. It colleges with Opportunity Programs but are for students attending schools without is recommended that you check not enrolled in them. If you attend a private • Private Colleges/Universities Opportunity Programs to access FYCSI with the Financial Aid and/or the college or university that does not offer an Students or Applicants: Contact the funding and services. Interested students Opportunity Program Office to Opportunity Program, or they do offer one HEOP office and/or Financial Aid Office should check with a school’s Financial Aid determine if the college that you are but you are not enrolled, reach out to your at the private college(s) to which you and/or Opportunity Program Office to interested in attending participates school’s Financial Aid office to learn if you are applying. determine if that college participates. in FYCSI. may be eligible for funding.
Participating colleges and universities include, among others: Private Colleges/Universities Marist College CUNY SUNY Colleges of Technology Marymount Manhattan College Alfred State Alfred University Baruch College University Centers and Mercy College Canton Bard College BMCC Doctoral Degree Granting Institutions Molloy College Cobleskill Barnard College Bronx Community College Albany Mount Saint Mary College Delhi Boricua College Brooklyn College Binghamton Nazareth College Farmingdale Canisius College of Buffalo City College of New York University at Buffalo New School Martime Cazenovia College College of Staten Island Stony Brook New York Institute of Technology Morrisville Clarkson University Hostos Community College SUNY Polytechnic Institute New York University Colgate University Hunter College NYS Ceramics at Alfred University Niagara University Community Colleges College of Mount Saint Vincent John Jay College NYS Colleges at Cornell University Nyack College Adirondack College of Saint Rose Kingsborough Community College Environmental Science and Forestry Paul Smith’s College Broome Columbia Univesrity LaGuardia Community College Polytechnic University Dutchess Cornell University Lehman College University Colleges Pratt University Erie Daemen College Medgar Evers College Brockport Rochester Institute of Technology Fashion Institute of Technology Dowoling College New York City College of Technology Buffalo State Russell Sage College Finger Lakes D’Youville College Queens College Cortland Sage College of Albany Fulton Montgomery Five Towns College Queensborough Community College Fredonia St. Bonaventure University Genesee Fordham University York College Geneseo St. John Fisher College Hudson Valley Fordham University: Rose Hill Campus New Paltz St. Lawrence University Jefferson Hamilton College Old Westbury St. Thomas Aquinas College Monroe Hobart and William Smith Colleges Oneonta Siena College Nassau Hofstra University Oswego Syracuse University Niagara Ithaca College Plattsburgh Trocaire College Onondaga Keuka College Potsdam Union College Orange LeMoyne College Purchase University of Rochester Schenectady Long Island University Utica College Suffolk Manhattan College Vaugh College of Aeronautics & Technology Ulster Maria College Westchester Foster Youth College Success Initiative
How Can the FYCSI Program Am I Eligible? How do I participate in the Most students who receive FYCSI support For more information about the FYCSI and Some college applications may ask if will apply and be admitted to an Opportunity the eligibility requirements to participate in you are a foster youth, orphaned, or ward Help You? All students ― regardless of immigration FYCSI? Program. For students participating in an an opportunity program, please follow the of the court. Although not mandatory, status ― are eligible to access funding and FYCSI was designed to remove financial FYCSI operates as part of New York State’s Opportunity Program there is no separate instructions based on where you plan to identifying yourself on the application will resources through FYCSI, if they meet the barriers that may prevent students from opportunity programs. An opportunity application for FYCSI. New York State attend college. increase the likelihood that you will be eligibility criteria defined below: completing college as attending college program is designed to provide college Opportunity Programs include: considered for participation in the FYCSI. • CUNY Students or Applicants: can be very expensive, funding through 1. Are currently resident of New York access to students who are considered • College Discovery (CD) & Search for Contact Shirley DePena, For additional information or questions the Foster Youth College Success Initiative State; academically underprepared and financially Education Elevation Knowledge (SEEK)- Director of Youth Matter. relating to the statewide policy that supports the cost of college attendance disadvantaged, but demonstrate the 2. Became a foster youth, orphan, or ward City University of New York (CUNY) [email protected] established the FYCSI please contact: including, but not limited to: potential to complete college. Opportunity of the court at any time after your 13th [email protected] Program students receive a variety of • Educational Opportunity Program • SUNY Students or Applicants: birthday. Students will have to present • Tuition and Fees services to help them achieve success. (EOP) - State University of New York Contact the EOP office at the SUNY official documentation from the family • Meals & Housing, including Services include counseling, tutoring/ (SUNY) college(s) to which you are applying or court, a school official, academic support, skill development Osei Agyeman, Foster Youth College recess/intersession housing a caseworker, or a foster care agency • Higher Educational Opportunity workshops (time management, Success Initiative Coordinator and or death certificates in order to confirm Program (HEOP) - Private Colleges and • Books & Supplies organizational skills, and study skills) and Campus Liaison. they are/were a foster youth, orphaned, Universities • Transportation developmental instruction. [email protected] or a ward or the court; and Recent changes to the Foster Youth College Not all colleges and universities in New • SUNY Non-EOP Students or • Advisement, Tutoring, and 3. Are admitted and enrolled in a SUNY Success Initiative program provide access to York State offer an Opportunity Program. Applicants: Contact the financial aid Academic Support or CUNY college or university, or at students who either attend colleges that do not However, based on recent changes to office at the school you are attending a private college or university that participate in Opportunity Programs or attend • Personal Expenses the law, there may be opportunities or plan to apply to. participates in the FYCSI program. It colleges with Opportunity Programs but are for students attending schools without is recommended that you check not enrolled in them. If you attend a private • Private Colleges/Universities Opportunity Programs to access FYCSI with the Financial Aid and/or the college or university that does not offer an Students or Applicants: Contact the funding and services. Interested students Opportunity Program Office to Opportunity Program, or they do offer one HEOP office and/or Financial Aid Office should check with a school’s Financial Aid determine if the college that you are but you are not enrolled, reach out to your at the private college(s) to which you and/or Opportunity Program Office to interested in attending participates school’s Financial Aid office to learn if you are applying. determine if that college participates. in FYCSI. may be eligible for funding.
Participating colleges and universities include, among others: Private Colleges/Universities Marist College CUNY SUNY Colleges of Technology Marymount Manhattan College Alfred State Alfred University Baruch College University Centers and Mercy College Canton Bard College BMCC Doctoral Degree Granting Institutions Molloy College Cobleskill Barnard College Bronx Community College Albany Mount Saint Mary College Delhi Boricua College Brooklyn College Binghamton Nazareth College Farmingdale Canisius College of Buffalo City College of New York University at Buffalo New School Martime Cazenovia College College of Staten Island Stony Brook New York Institute of Technology Morrisville Clarkson University Hostos Community College SUNY Polytechnic Institute New York University Colgate University Hunter College NYS Ceramics at Alfred University Niagara University Community Colleges College of Mount Saint Vincent John Jay College NYS Colleges at Cornell University Nyack College Adirondack College of Saint Rose Kingsborough Community College Environmental Science and Forestry Paul Smith’s College Broome Columbia Univesrity LaGuardia Community College Polytechnic University Dutchess Cornell University Lehman College University Colleges Pratt University Erie Daemen College Medgar Evers College Brockport Rochester Institute of Technology Fashion Institute of Technology Dowoling College New York City College of Technology Buffalo State Russell Sage College Finger Lakes D’Youville College Queens College Cortland Sage College of Albany Fulton Montgomery Five Towns College Queensborough Community College Fredonia St. Bonaventure University Genesee Fordham University York College Geneseo St. John Fisher College Hudson Valley Fordham University: Rose Hill Campus New Paltz St. Lawrence University Jefferson Hamilton College Old Westbury St. Thomas Aquinas College Monroe Hobart and William Smith Colleges Oneonta Siena College Nassau Hofstra University Oswego Syracuse University Niagara Ithaca College Plattsburgh Trocaire College Onondaga Keuka College Potsdam Union College Orange LeMoyne College Purchase University of Rochester Schenectady Long Island University Utica College Suffolk Manhattan College Vaugh College of Aeronautics & Technology Ulster Maria College Westchester ATTENTION STUDENTS STARTING COLLEGE IN The Foster SEPTEMBER 2016 Youth College Success Initiative
WHAT IS THE FYCSI? The Foster Youth College Success Initiative (FYCSI) was established in 2015 to increase the population of foster youth, orphans, and wards of the court who apply, attend and graduate from college in New York State. By providing financial assistance and support services, FYCSI also makes college completion a reality for eligible students.
Additional Funding Has Been Made Available To Support SUNY: Educational Opportunity Programs Foster Youth Attending CUNY: SEEK or College Discovery Private Colleges: Higher Education College Through These Opportunity Programs For questions about the production of this brochure, please contact Opportunity Programs [email protected] Eligible foster youth must be already enrolled in/or applying to an opportunity program at a participating institution. For information, visit www.fysany.org/faq
FYSA is a statewide group of advocates concerned with advancing state policies, and securing public resources to improve outcomes for foster youth.