1. From a Ward to Award: Engaging former youth in care on campus

2. Aging Out:
What is it?

3. Time to shake it off!

5. Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change [is] trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.
- Bruce D. Perry
The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing

6. Our stories.

7. Sam:

9. Lily:

11. Student Pathways at UVic
Pre-admission
Application
Enrollment and registration
Orientation
Academic supports
Co-curricular supports
Graduation

12. What’s next? (Be an) Ally! Believe!
Connect! (How can we “connect the threads” on campus?)

13. Parting thoughts:
Success in post-secondary is challenging to anyone, but former youth in care (FYIC) must do it with the additional task of becoming the healthy, responsible adult that they have never had in their own lives.
The cruel paradox of resilience: the very traits that bring FYIC to post- secondary could be holding this group back from the kind of connection that makes a university experience both meaningful and endurable.

14. What does “residence housing” during “winter holiday break” mean to a FYIC? Consider the context.
Relationships matter, at all steps of the student pathway. Remember to connect the threads!
Rethink stigma! With investment that is more than merely monetary, these students can be but future anything – as well as FYIC.
“Just because you came from somewhere hard, doesn’t mean it has to be that way your whole life.” –UVic FYIC