Western Michigan University - Center for Fostering Success

Program Description

Fostering Success Michigan, through generous support from The Kresge Foundation, Western Michigan University and others, is building a statewide collective-impact strategy that strives to prepare young people in foster care between the ages of 12 to 25 across the state of Michigan. Fostering Success Michigan is utilizing the Collective Impact Framework to support Michigan's efforts of large scale social change in the area of youth and alumni of foster care and their access and succuss in higher education and post-college careers. The Collective Impact Framework employs five distinct conditions for social change: Backbone Organization, Common Agenda, Mutually Reinforcing Activities, Shared Measurement, and Continuous Communication.

Demographics

Populations Served

• Academically At-risk

First-Generation

• Less than 25%

Representative
Colleges Attended
by Alumni

• Western Michigan University