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Voucher program helps push foster youth to higher education goals

BEMIDJI -- When adolescents aged out of the Minnesota foster care system before 2003, higher education was seldom an option.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has since worked to grow post-secondary opportunities for former foster youth. Each year, the Education and Training Voucher program awards roughly 200 such students an average of $3,000 apiece -- money that can go toward nearly any expense associated with college life.

“It’s our responsibility to provide these kids an avenue toward higher education,” said Jim Koppel, the department’s assistant commissioner for Children and Family Services. “Before, some of these kids became homeless. Many had no future. There was nothing for them.”

http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/3777933-voucher-program-helps-push-foster-youth-higher-education-goals

 

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