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Posts Tagged ‘national foster youth institute’

An unlikely entrepreneur: The Bay Area teen trying to help foster youth through tech

By Shuang Li | December 12, 2018

Only about half of foster youth graduate from high school, and of those students, only 20 percent make it to college. Franco’s goal for FConnect is to help them learn about resources that will help them get to college and, once there, make it to graduation.

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