California Chafee Grant Program
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| Provided by: | California Student Aid Commission |
| Type: | Scholarship |
| Amount: | $5000 |
| Description: | |
| If you are or were in foster care and have financial need, you may qualify for up to $5,000 a year for career and technical training or college. You don’t have to pay this money back. You may also be able to use your grant to help pay for child care, transportation and rent while you’re in school. You can use your Chafee Grant at any eligible California college or university or career or technical school, as well as schools in other states. To qualify, you must be a current or former foster youth and not have reached your 22nd birthday as of July 1 of the award year. The court must have established your dependency when you were between the ages of 16 and 18. (KinGap youth, adopted youth, guardian placement, and voluntary placement may not be eligible for the Chafee Grant, unless court dependence was established, at anytime, between the ages of 16 and 18). The California Department of Social Services will verify your foster youth eligibility status. | |
| Additional Information | |
| Must be a foster youth or former foster youth enrolled in an eligibile college or vocational school, study at least half-time in a course of study that is at least one year long. Must maintain satisfactory academic progress. Must have been in foster care between 16th and 18th birthday and not reached 22nd birthday. | |
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