Helping Foster Youth Take Flight
Post-Emancipation
BY GAIL MATSUNAGA
From Dateline (August 19, 2004)
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Although students aren’t required to
check in, except maybe once a semester, the Guardian Scholars
Center, says Jenny Mohr, director of the Guardian Scholars Program,
is “used like you cannot believe. The majority of our
students come in for the camaraderie, the support, computer
services and TLC.”
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Titan alumna Jenny Mohr has run a homeless
shelter, a crisis clinic and a group home, in addition to working
as coordinator of the After Care Program for Orangewood Children’s
Home. Now she directs the Guardian Scholars Program, which acknowledges
the accom-plishments of students who have left the foster care system,
were wards of the court or come from similar backgrounds.
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