Students are eligible to participate [in FYRE] regardless of the length of time they spent in foster care or their age at entrance into or exit from care. They are also eligible to participate whether they were supervised by child welfare or probation youth, or whether they were placed in-home or out-of-home. This could include, but is not limited to, youth who are or were a dependent or ward of the court, probation foster youth, youth who were subject to a legal guardianship or voluntary placement agreement (“VPA”), youth participating in extended foster care (also referred to as “AB12”), youth determined to be a dependent by a trial court of an Indian tribe, consortium of tribes, or tribal organization.
