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Elevate (United Way) credits bilingual outreach, school-based teams and run charts for regional FAFSA gains
Summary
Elevate’s regional team described a data-driven, partnership approach that produced strong school-level gains: the Southeast region reported 69% FAFSA/WASFA completion and more than 2,600 targeted financial-aid interactions, supported by bilingual family academies and school-based college-and-career teams.
Amy Lee, director of post-secondary access at Elevate (the United Way of the Blue Mountains initiative), and Jenny Foster, a lead college-and-career readiness advisor, told the advisory board their regional, partnership-driven model uses school-based "post-secondary ecosystem" teams and run charts to track interventions and outcomes.
"We have around 55 percent of our students pursue some type of post-secondary education immediately after they graduate," Amy Lee said as she introduced Elevate’s goals; a region presenter added, "69…
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