GEORGIA COLLEGE ACCESS AND SUCCESS Provide supports for
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GEORGIA COLLEGE ACCESS AND SUCCESS
Provide supports for 7 th grade– 1 st year college students, foster or homeless students, parents and educators to receive their high school diploma, prepare for post-secondary education, prepare for careers and support through their first year of college. • • • • Trainings (Counselors/STEM Teachers) Parent/Student Workshops Tutoring Mentoring Accuplacer Assessments Trauma-Informed Coaching for Foster/Homeless 1 st-Year POC Campus Support Student/Parent Leadership Activities Career Awareness Summer Bridge Programs Spring Success Events Dual Enrollment Scholarship Lunches/Boot Camps College Signing Days 1 st Year Support
Facilitating college access and success for students in the foster care system and who’ve experienced homelessness • • • Trainings Social workers, Independent Living Specialist Trauma-Informed Coaching for Foster/Homeless high school students Point of Contact Campus Support Summer Bridge Programs Scholarships Advocacy
Mini Scholarship Boot Camp, a project-based workshop series teaches students as early as 6 th grade how to user civic engagement to build their personal scholarship brands. Curriculum helps middle school students create service-learning projects, or “scholarship brag projects” that increase their eligibility for national scholarships.
Provide awareness and training for counselors & school personnel and workshops for students and parents on college preparation, career planning and financial aid. Provides a platform for students to prepare, plan and apply for college as well as participate in activities for College and Career Exploration in order to make an appropriate College Fit • • Dual Enrollment Zell and Hope Scholarship & Grants GED Grants GAFutures website Apply to College Month Financial Aid & FAFSA Completion College Planning Career Exploration
USG MOMENTUM YEAR Assisting students with starting their college careers by making a purposeful choice in a focus area or program, with a productive academic mindset and a clearly sequenced program maps. • K-12 Outreach • Intrusive Advising • Co-Requisite Remediation Courses, • 15 to Finish • Key academic and non-academic milestones • Other interventions (mentoring, cohort peer groups, etc. )
DAWN COOPER Assistant Vice Chancellor for College Access Initiatives University System of Georgia Dawn. cooper@usg. edu
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