Collaborating to Support Post Secondary Success for Youth in Care

Submitted by Roxanne Lockyer, Recruitment Officer, Student Recruitment & Indigenous Community Engagement 
 
SLC Recruitment recently hosted the Ontario Education Championship Team (OECT) and Family and Children’s Services Frontenac Lennox and Addington (FACSFLA) for their Navigating Post-Secondary and OSAP for Service Providers Working with Youth event. 

The OECT is a group of community members from a variety of sectors in Ontario, who work together to increase the awareness, participation, and the success of youth in care at all levels of education, while preparing them for employment. Those who work with youth in care are often faced with barriers related to required documents, unique academic accommodation requests, and struggles with navigating financial aid opportunities that are specific to them. 

OECT brought together youth workers, service providers and foster parents to learn more about the financial aid process and to bring forward any questions they had to teams from St. Lawrence College, Loyalist College, and Queen’s University. 

Kyle Valpy, Financial Aid Advisor, SLC, gave an overview of OSAP, highlighting some of the recent government changes, representatives from Loyalist provided an overview of provincial and federal scholarships and bursaries, and Queen’s representatives focused on documentation specific to youth in care in OSAP applications.