WELCOME

For youth exiting the foster care and juvenile justice system, the first year out of the system is the roughest yet the first year in college has the highest dropout rate across the board. Linkage to Education helps our students navigate through this most critical transition by providing peer support, help with textbooks and class information, on-campus guidance and promoting our youth's resiliency and ability to learn.

REAL RESULTS

• Turns former dropouts, foster youths and juvenile offenders into college students who are pursuing positive goals.
• Improves college access, retention and graduation rates for system-based youth.
• Improves economic status (i.e., the ability to climb the socioeconomic ladder and out of the cycle of poverty and health disparities.)
• Improves personal outlook.

HOW WE DO IT

Building our community comes through building the lives of these individuals so that they can further their education, social and economic development. Linkage to Education uses an innovative medical (neuro) sociological model to help our students on the road to wellness, self-actualization and success. Our mission: To connect, To engage, To inform, To support, To transform.

HISTORY

Linkage to Education is a non-profit 501(c)3, and was started in 1988 by Daren Maeda. Over the past 20 years, Linkage to Education has helped thousands of youth get the much educational assistance.