BCFS

UTSA CAPRI Center

UTSA Financial Aid Outreach

The BCFS Preparation for Adult Living (PAL) Program offers continuing services to post-PAL youth (ages 16-21), such as case management, support group meetings, monthly youth activities, and conferences

BCFS PAL also provides PYC Employment Resources, such as vocational testing, online job searches, computer-aided resume writing, vocational assessment, job coaching, and employer linkages

Support services are also crucial, such as physical and mental health care, housing, substance abuse assessment and treatment, and emotional support

HUB FORTRANSITIONAL

SERVICES

PAL TrainingAftercare ServicesTransition Center

Housing

Return to CareExtended Care

Transitional Living ProgramsApartments

SheltersHUD

Housing AgenciesCollege Dorms

Employment

WorkSourceProject Quest

WIAEmployment Agencies

Vocational Training

Transportation

Public TransportationCar Purchase

Other TransportationOptions

EDUCATION

Local Community CollegesUniversities

Independent School DistrictsGED Programs

Vocational ProgramsTutoring

ETV

OTHER RESOURCES

Circles of SupportFood Banks

Mental Health ServicesParenting Classes

Legal ServicesDARS

Life skills curriculumIntegrated communityExperiential component

Circle of Support Transition Planning Case Management Follow-Up Post-Emancipation Planning incorporates caregivers into IL Teaching

Individualized Case PlanningChafee Room and Board $$$HousingEmploymentEducation

Dr. Harriett Romo, Director of the UTSA CAPRI Center, approached BCFS in hopes of writing a HUD Grant Proposal with data gathered at the BCFS Transition Center

With the federal approval of the HUD Grant, BCFS sought to collaborate with UTSA via a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), extremely similar to BCFS’s previously-established MOU with Alamo Colleges

BCFS and UTSA signed a formal MOU on November 29, 2010, detailing: UTSA’s commitment to partner with BCFS to aid foster youth and alumni

in accessing post-secondary education

BCFS’s willingness to invite UTSA staff to BCFS bi-monthly to engage foster youth in potential post-secondary education opportunities

The Child & Adolescent Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) at The University of Texas San Antonio, in conjuction with BCFS, will implement a three-year HSIAC program to assist foster care youth with supportive services, training, and financial resources for the purpose of attending college or other job training opportunities

CAPRI has partnered with UTSA faculty in multiple disciplines and five community-based organizations in the design of this program. These partners will remain involved throughout program implementation. The program consists of four activities:

Prepares foster care youth for college readiness, leadership, and job training

Provides social services for foster care youth focusing on crisis management for housing and young adult life issues

Develops database and workshop resources for housing foster youth attending college or job training

Creates the Assistance in College Completion, Employment, and Socioeconomic Success (ACCESS) Center located at the UTSA CAPRI Center

UTSA’s HSIAC/HUD Grant also: Allows funding for BCFS to employ one full-time

and one part-time Education Specialist for three years

Grants UTSA the funding to staff and supply an on-campus ACCESS Center in conjunction with BCFS and other agencies

Norma DavilaBCFS, Program Director(210) 733-7932ndavila@bcfs.net

Christopher GoldsberryUTSA, Financial Aid Outreach(210) 458-2802Christopher.Goldsberry@utsa

.edu

Sophia OrtizUTSA CAPRI, Assistant

Director(210) 458-2692Sophia.Ortiz@utsa.edu

Shannyn RomeroUTSA CAPRI, Graduate

Assistant(210) 458-2849Shannyn.Romero@utsa.edu