Kids from the foster care system need more help than the average youth does to succeed. Pivotal has a strong reputation in Silicon Valley for guiding foster youth to career success. With Pivotal support, foster youth are proven to graduate from high school and college at significantly higher rates than their foster youth peers. No kid wants or chooses to be in foster care. Family circumstances - abuse, incarceration, the death of a parent - are the main reasons why kids end up in "the system.
Without active and dedicated parents to inspire and support their goals, most foster youth give up and stay in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine the odds stacked against you.
Read some of their stories here. Our academic and career readiness tools for foster youth include coaching from trauma-informed experts, STEM classes, subject-specific tutoring, college scholarships, professional development workshops, and summer internships.
We open doors for foster youth so they can succeed in life. As soon as foster youth hit high school, we pair them up with a coach who will look out for their academic success and help them to navigate the most critical years in their life. Everyone agrees that the foster care ecosystem needs to respond better to foster youth's realities.
Our impact speaks for itself. With over 20 years of experience in consistently increasing graduation rates among foster youth, our public and private partners support our mission and help us lead those change efforts.
Pivotal is the only agency in Silicon Valley to offer a blend of trauma-informed coaching, workforce development, college scholarships, and summer internships that are specifically geared to foster youth. Our programs are data-driven, optimized for success, and always evolving to better suit the needs of this vulnerable population. Time, money, talents.
Consider sharing one, two, or all three with foster youth. All kids deserve to have someone out there cheering them on. Be that person for one of our foster youth. Skip to main content. We are closely monitoring the evolving situation and taking guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health authorities. Protecting the health, safety, and well-being of everyone on Team Pivotal is our top priority. We help young people in foster care create the life they want.
We stick with them through thick and thin. Pivotal coaches partner with staff in key departments such as the Educational Opportunity Program, Financial Aid, and Enrollment Offices. Together, we work to create the best possible campus climate for foster youth to feel welcome, find the help they need, and ultimately enjoy their college experience. Whenever possible, we connect our scholars to their university's Guardian Scholars Program, an on-campus program designed to provide comprehensive support services specifically created for former and current foster youth.
This internship program - known as Emerging Scholars - is widely respected by professors in graduate schools of social work. We partner with school districts to better serve the foster youth enrolled in their high schools. We learn about the extent of services they can offer students, and we step up to fill any gaps. In some cases, schools invite our well-respected coaches to hold office space on campus.
This makes our coaches highly accessible to our scholars, and a resource for teachers and staff on the topics of trauma-informed care and foster youth needs.
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