Road to Success and program staff, like Margie Dotson, pictured above center, provides teens and
young adults in foster care the chance to travel and advocate for their own rights and opportunities.

Teens Find Steadfast Champion
Foster a Dream Foundation Awards $10,000 for 2022

January 6, 2022

A program that prepares teens and young adults for life after foster care received a jolt of support for the New Year, after the Kathryn A. Basile Foster a Dream Foundation awarded Communities Connected for Kids a $10,000 grant.

The award allows CCKids' Road to Success program - which prepares teens for life after foster care - to expand and provide opportunities otherwise unavailable.

Awarded every winter since 2010, the grant funds high-school graduation expenses, pays for computers and laptops for young people heading to college and even allows those same students to travel to different campuses or to advocate in Tallahassee for the rights of children in care.

Kathryn A. Basile was the longtime director of the Children's Services Council of St. Lucie County. She believed that any child in foster care could find success with the right support.

Since the foundation was created in 2010, Foster a Dream has contributed more than $90,000 and helped more than 150 young people in foster care.