California Education Code

§ 89348

EDC § 89348 Effective Jun 30, 2022Div. 8 · Title 3 · Part 55 · Ch. 3 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)Subject to the availability of funds in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, the office of the Chancellor of the California State University shall provide each participating campus with funding to support postsecondary education programs for foster youth and former foster youth. The chancellor’s office shall develop a funding formula that allocates funding to each campus that offers a foster youth support program. The formula may authorize each participating campus to maintain a minimum baseline funding amount. The formula shall be based on the number of students participating in the program at each participating campus.

(b)Funding allocated to each campus pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be used to support services for students who are foster youth and former foster youth, which may include, but are not limited to, outreach and recruitment, consultation and eligibility verification, consultation and referrals for students deemed ineligible, service coordination, counseling and academic advising, grants for books, supplies, tutoring, childcare, housing, or transportation, independent living and financial literacy skills support, frequent in-person contact, career guidance, referrals to health services, mental health services, housing assistance, and other related services, and direct financial support.

(c)A campus program may provide all services described in subdivision (b) to an enrolled student who is a foster youth or former foster youth but whose courses have not yet commenced, if those services are necessary to enable the student to be successful upon the commencement of the academic term. Funding may also be used to support these services during the summer term for those students who are enrolled in the upcoming fall term.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 54, Sec. 43. (AB 183) Effective June 30, 2022.