Empowerment Goal #1: Every American Child is ready for College, Work and Life!

The Education and Youth Development (EYD) divison develops innovative programs to support academic achievement, civic involvement, and the physical and emotional development of children and youth.

For more than 50 years, EYD has worked to improve educational opportunities for African American students. The EYD achieves its goal of fostering academic excellence through the development of policies and programs that focus on early childhood education, college preparedness and youth leadership programs.

Read more in this section:

• Project Ready
• Read and Rise
• Youth Summit
• ESL Programs
• Find the Right College

Read more below about Foster Care facts:

• Foster Care Fact Sheet I
• Foster Care Fact Sheet II
• Foster Care Fact Sheet III
• Foster Care Fact Sheet IV
• Foster Care Fact Sheet V

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