Training:  eGAL Extended Guardian Volunteer Mentor Training 

This training will provide volunteers with a basic awareness of the DCF tuition exemption process as well as some of the local higher academic institutional resources and points of contact.  This training will also provide volunteers with tools to guide, empower and support former foster youth to better understand the intricacies of qualifying, paying for and ultimately being a college student.  Because of your established relationship and experience as a child advocate, GAL volunteers can provide former foster youth with the emotional and instrumental support [they] need to achieve the goal of a college degree.  By providing information, guidance, and encouragement, volunteer mentors can play an important role in nurturing a former foster youth’s college aspirations and well-being.

Presenters:  Calvin Martin- Guardian ad Litem Chief Innovation Officer and Racqui Perry- Statewide Mentoring Administrator with Educate Tomorrow, Inc.

Original Webinar Date:  November 3, 2021

Volunteers, please select training topic "Educational Advocacy" and specify in notes eGAL Extended Guardian Volunteer Mentor Training when inputting into Optima. 

Staff, please select "Educational Advocacy" (eGAL Extended Guardian Volunteer Mentor Training) in Optima.

For CAM Certification, the domain is "Child Advocacy Management".


Instructor(s)

Chief Innovation Officer with the Guardian ad Litem Program

Calvin Martin

Calvin Martin has over 25 years of experience in a variety of capacities in child welfare, mental health, community assessment and engagement, cultural diversity, training delivery methods and staff development. To fulfill his passion for bringing diverse groups together, Calvin has successfully integrated varying aspects of intercultural communications/cultural competency skill building into his presentations and project management initiatives. In his current role, Calvin provides strategic, operational, and organizational leadership that grows capacity for intercultural competence, nurturance of diverse populations and inclusive leadership across the Guardian ad Litem Program.

Statewide Mentoring Administrator with Educate Tomorrow, Inc.

Racquell Perry

Racquell "Racqui" Perry, Esq. is a Florida barred attorney currently working as a Program Associate with Educate Tomorrow in Washington D.C.. She works in the Positive Pathways Program which is designed to support a statewide network of informed, empathetic, and united action to help youth from foster care succeed in college. She provides guidance and technical assistance regarding Extended Foster Care (EFC), Postsecondary Education Support Services (PESS), Aftercare Services and the DCF Tuition and Fee Exemption. Racqui is a 2019 Congressional Shadow Week Delegate and has served on the Miami-Dade Community Based Care Alliance (System of Care, Chairperson), on the Citizen Review Panel with Florida Foster Care Review (Miami) and as the President of the Our Kids Youth Advisory Council. She is a graduate of Florida A&M University (BS ’11) and Florida A&M University College of Law (JD ’15).

Course curriculum

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    Recorded Webinar

    • eGAL Extended Guardian Volunteer Mentor Training

    • Quick Review