Education and Training Voucher
The Education and Training Voucher (ETV) is an annual federal grant provided to states to fund youth who have aged out of the foster care system and who are enrolled in college, university and vocational training programs.
Students may receive up to $5,000 a year based on their cost of attendance. Funds may be used for tuition, dorm fees, books, student loan repayments and qualified living expenses.
Basic requirements are as follows:
- Youth must be in foster care, adopted from foster care after age 16, or agedout of foster care.
- Youth must have a high school diploma or GED.
- Youth must be accepted into or enrolled in a Title IV, accredited college orvocational/technical training program.
https://www.fc2sprograms.org/faqs/
National Foster Parent Association
The National Foster Parent Association offers scholarships to NFPA members whose birth, foster, and U.S. adopted youth wish to further their education beyond high school, including college or university studies, vocational/technical school or junior college. Application forms open at the beginning of January, and the deadline to get the form is in early March.