PrepNOW!™ is Fedcap’s web-based curriculum and interactive learning tool enhances the capacity and motivation of caregivers to prepare youth in their care to enter college and graduate. Studies show that 70% of young people in foster care say that they want to go to college, but only 10% get into college. By helping foster caregivers create a College-going Culture, we are giving young people an opportunity to greatly improve their ability to succeed.
PrepNOW!™ is the only formal curriculum in the country specifically designed to help foster parents prepare youth in their care to get into college and graduate. We see that the building of college pathways is a natural extension of caregivers’ responsibilities for safety, permanency and well-being. Foster parents are deeply committed to youth in their care but often lack the requisite skills and knowledge to create a college-going culture within the home, or to navigate college entry and financial aid processes.
PrepNOW! helps foster parents by working through course content in the following areas: Values; Motivation; Skills and Knowledge and That All Important First Year. The modules are presented in small groups and in individual settings. It also includes videos representing the voice of youth in care, interactive sessions that help foster parents assess their values about higher education, exercises and links to an array of helpful tools.
Through PrepNOW!™ foster parents gain the confidence and knowledge to mentor the children in their care on how to gain admission and succeed in college.
For detailed information on PrepNOW!™ contact Don Harreld at Harreld@fedcap.org.
Using a combination of testing, written materials, video presentations, role playing and employer presentations, Get Ready!™ prepares workers to identify their own resources to solve issues and work with teams. The result is an employer can rely on!
The Fedcap School is an accredited private school in West Orange, New Jersey, dedicated to helping students ages 13-21 classified with cognitive, multiple, or behavioral disabilities succeed and thrive into adulthood.
Our certified staff are skilled professionals who provide a nurturing, stimulating environment that advances students’ educational, social and emotional growth.
Our therapeutic environment helps students develop greater self-awareness of their assets and encourages students to set goals and work to achieve them. Our students are engaged in their own educational and behavioral planning within a team where every person has voice – student, family, caregivers and staff.
Our programming includes:
