Beyond High School: College Opportunity for Homeless Youth

Young people have the right to a primary education. They should also have the opportunity to get a college education. Since 2004, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless has awarded college scholarships to students who were homeless during high school.

In 2007, five $2,000 scholarships were awarded to 2007 Chicago Public Schools graduates. In addition, two grants of $1,000 were awarded to past winners to help them continue their college studies.

To learn more about Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Scholarship winners, visit our Voices of Hope podcast center, where you can learn more and listen to interviews with Bryan Riddle, Kianca Fincher, and Kieara Keys, all of whom were 2007 scholarship recipients.

CCH 2007 scholarship winners
with Dawn Turner Trice, novelist and Chicago Tribune columnist

From left to right: Dawn Turner Trice; winners Alma Black (Robert Morris
College); Kieara Keys (Joliet Junior College); the younger sister of Shunika
Brown, who had already begun her studies at Univerity of
Illinois-Urbana; Kianca Fincher (St. Xavier University; Bryan
Riddle (Northern Illinois University); and 2005 scholarship winner,
Brandon Dunlap (Kendall College).