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A recently formed local group designed to support Black youth and their parents better navigate the education system and achieve their life goals has secured full funding for the next three years.
Family Fuse, launched last August, received $253,500 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Youth Opportunities Fund. The non-profit group is also backed by W.E.S.T. (Women’s Enterprise Skills Training Inc.) of Windsor.
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The goal is to assist, over the next few years, at least 75 local families of Black youth through a combination of community partnerships, workshops and one-one-one support as they advance through the school system starting in junior kindergarten right up to working through university or college.