We help young people in foster care create the life they want. Young people from the foster care system need more help than the average youth to succeed. Pivotal has a strong reputation in Silicon Valley for guiding foster youth to career success. With Pivotal support, foster youth graduate from high school and college at significantly higher rates than their peers.
Over 400,000 kids are in foster care. Their education and employment outcomes are among the worst in our country. Pivotal is changing that through impact-generating models that focus on high school and college-aged foster youth.
Our strong reputation for providing education and employment support to foster youth Silicon Valley is no accident. We've been building it for decades and we're only getting better.
When foster youth turn 21 years old, they emancipate from the foster care system. It's not a cause for celebration. Cut off from services and funding and without any family to support them, foster youth are on their own. Know what makes a difference? A college scholarship and an earned degree. That's why Pivotal works with foster youth during high school and college. So they can graduate and achieve their dreams for success.
Everyone has big dreams. And everyone can reach them. The thing is, foster youth have so much going on in their lives, it's easy for them to fall behind in school and lose hope for the future. When Pivotal coaches get started with foster youth, they help them build resilience and see that it’s never too late and no dream is too big.
It's important to get the right people together in the same room. Pivotal hires experts in foster care who specialize in working with foster youth. We also knock on lots of doors in Silicon Valley to build partnerships with employers, government agencies, nonprofits, high schools, local universities, and community colleges. It takes a lot of people to improve the life of one foster youth. We're doing it for hundreds.
