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NextUP is an academic support service committed to advocacy, providing personal growth and economic opportunity for its diverse foster youth student population through education. NextUP is dedicated to student academic success, personal attention, and empowering participating student's to be successful in their educational endeavors.

Program Benefits and Eligibility

Benefits

Benefits include:

  • Money for textbooks/supplies
  • Grants
  • Transportation funds
  • Grocery funds
  • Priority registration for classes
  • Textbook support
  • Counseling and advising
  • Tutoring
  • Workshops
  • Transfer assistance/Career assistance

Eligibility

To be eligible for NextUP, you must:

  • Have been receiving Foster Care services at the age of 13 or over
  • Have verification of Foster Youth Status
  • Be under the age of 26 at the beginning of the academic school year

Check out our Student Success Brochure (PDF) highlighting the experiences of former foster youth students at CRC.

Contact

(916) 691-7075
(916) 691-7365

Aujonique Dismukes
Student Support Specialist/Foster Liaison
dismuka@crc.losrios.edu

Summer Hours

In-Person

  • Monday to Thursday:
    8:00 am to 4:30 pm
  • Friday, June 26:
    8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Remote Only

  • Friday:
    8:00 am to 4:00 pm
    Exception: Friday, June 26 will be in-person

Closures

  • June 19: Juneteenth
  • July 3: Independence Day (Observed)

Location

College Center, CC 254