Amara
Amara, 18. In extended foster care. First semester at Valencia College, Orlando.
This is an illustrative account. Every detail is invented.
- Age
- 18
- Care
- Extended foster care
- School
- Valencia College, Orlando
- Programs found
- Eightprograms that may fit them today
Said out loud
Amara didn't need rescuing. They needed to see the eight programs that may be theirs, in one place, with the reason under each one. U Navigate showed them on day one, from one assessment and their profile.
Full case
Situation
Amara is 18, in extended foster care, and in their first semester at Valencia College in Orlando. They have a stable placement and a plan. What they don't know is that the state has money set aside for someone exactly like them.
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Why this case matters
Amara is doing fine. That's the point.
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Youth who are doing well still miss money they qualify for, often thousands of dollars a year. It's spread across six programs, four agencies and a caseworker with forty other kids. U Navigate puts it all in one place.
The feature they used
Benefits. From one assessment and their profile, U Navigate found eight programs that may fit them today. It says so at the top of the screen.
Three stand out:
PESS
A monthly stipend while they're in school.
ETV
Up to $5,000 a year.
The tuition exemption
Waives tuition and fees at Florida public colleges.
Under each card is a line that starts "You're seeing this because", so they know why.
What changed
The documents PESS asks for were already in their Vault, with a plain note on which programs each one unlocks.
Their Journey Record shows what they did, and when:
They gathered their FAFSA confirmation and their placement letter
They added both documents
They submitted their PESS application
Every step is dated. None of it can be changed later.
The federal line
Every dollar on Amara's screen is already funded.
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PESS and ETV are paid for by the federal Chafee program. Florida already gets this money and already reports on it. The problem isn't finding money for Amara. It's that the money doesn't reach them, because it's spread across six programs they don't know exist. The federal government measures this. Its NYTD survey checks in with youth in care at 17, then again at 19 and 21. Two of the things it tracks are whether they're in school and whether they got help paying for it. Amara's screen speaks to both.
Honest note
Amara sees these programs because their profile includes their care history. A youth who only takes the assessment won't see all of them yet. Closing that gap is our next build.
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They own it
Their account is theirs. U Navigate is not the state's system of record. Nothing is shared with a caseworker or anyone else unless they choose to share it.
The record can't be rewritten
Their Journey Record only grows. Entries can be added, never edited or deleted, by them or by us.
Every row is locked to them
A request for their data returns only their data, even if our own code has a bug.
What the AI is given, exactly
Lexi knows their first name and their state, so they don't have to repeat themselves. Their last name, email, phone, address, date of birth and account ID are never sent to an AI provider. An automated test breaks our build if that ever changes.
When they upload a document, the AI reads it
That's how Lexi summarizes a lease or finds a deadline on a form. The document and the summary are theirs. Neither is used to train anything.
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