{"id":9794,"date":"2021-09-30T10:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:43:24","slug":"new-tuition-program-for-current-and-former-youth-in-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/2021\/new-tuition-program-for-current-and-former-youth-in-care\/","title":{"rendered":"New tuition program for current and former youth in care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New tuition program for current and former youth in care\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University (CU) has partnered with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.childwelfarepac.com\/our-work-new\">Child Welfare Political Action Committee<\/a>&nbsp;(Child Welfare PAC) to launch a new tuition program tackling the challenge of equitable access, without age limits, to post-secondary education for current and former youth in care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYouth who have been in extended care face significant barriers, including financial challenges, in accessing higher education. This new bursary will provide some of the support they need and deserve,\u201d said President Benoit-Antoine Bacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CU Youth in Extended Society Care Tuition Assistance Bursary program will help up to 20 undergraduate students, five students per year for four years. The bursary will cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tuition and compulsory fees, up to a max of $10,000, for up to four years of full-time enrolment,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>$1,000 toward books and supplies for first year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full news release <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2021\/new-program-helps-those-raised-in-care-address-financial-challenges-and-improve-social-mobility-through-higher-education\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University (CU) has partnered with&nbsp;Child Welfare Political Action Committee&nbsp;(Child Welfare PAC) to launch a new tuition program tackling the challenge of equitable access, without age limits, to post-secondary education for current and former youth in care. \u201cYouth who have been in extended care face significant barriers, including financial challenges, in accessing higher education. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-student"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9797,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions\/9797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}