Only 1 – 2 % of Texas students who have been in foster care graduate with a bachelor’s degree. Spark is a new program of the Steve Hicks School’s Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing that seeks to improve college graduation rates of students who’ve experience foster and kinship care, including those who have been adopted.
Spark offers a college transition support program, collaborates with other organizations on the Forty Acres to connect students to needed services year-round and hosts a student organization for foster alumni on campus.
Learn more and get involved by visiting the Spark website.