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USA Today: Programs help foster youth achieve college success
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LOS ANGELES – It's just another Friday meeting of UCLA's Bruin Guardian Scholars. Yet the hugs,
laughter and cheerful chatter among the 40 or so students gathered in a drab study room on this rainy afternoon make it feel more like a family reunion.
They're not related by blood but they share a common bond: Everyone here has spent part of their youth in foster care. Which means everyone here has built a support system from scratch.
"It's why we all take the job of creating family and community seriously," says senior Eileen Gnehm, 33, an Afro-American studies major who calls the Bruin Guardian Scholars "my rock."
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