1. BCFS UTSA CAPRI Center UTSA Financial Aid Outreach

2.  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

4. PAL Training Post-PAL Circle of Support Mentoring Post-Emancipation  Life skills curriculum  Integrated community  Experiential component  Circle of Support  Transition Planning  Case Management Follow-Up  Post-Emancipation  Planning incorporates caregivers into IL Teaching  Individualized Case Planning  Chafee Room and Board $$$  Housing  Employment  Education

5.  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

6.  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:

7.  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

8.  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

9. UTSA CAPRI Harriett Romo UTSA Sociology Harriett Romo UTSA Social Work Rosalie Ambrosino UTSA Student Affairs Gage Paine Chris Goldsberry Angels' Crossing Jon Meyer Baptist Child Family Services Terri Hipps Casey Family Programs Gary Uriales Child Advocates San Antonio Tiffany Denson Project QUEST San Antonio Mary Pena UTSA Housing Policy Kim Ellicks- Center

11. Norma Davila BCFS, Program Director (210) 733-7932 ndavila@bcfs.net Christopher Goldsberry UTSA, Financial Aid Outreach (210) 458-2802 Christopher.Goldsberry@utsa.edu Sophia Ortiz UTSA CAPRI, Assistant Director (210) 458-2692 Sophia.Ortiz@utsa.edu Shannyn Romero UTSA CAPRI, Graduate Assistant (210) 458-2849 Shannyn.Romero@utsa.edu