HCYR believes that all students can continue to advance their educational goals after high school.  Thus, we begin as early as middle school discussing possibilities, encouraging all students to consider some form of higher education, whether at a college, through the military, or in a vocational training school.

To render the possibilities real, HCYR has developed the John Givens College Scholarship Fund, which exists for all alumnae of HCYR who wish to attend college, whether immediately after high school, or later in adulthood. Some of our alumnae decide to enter college after having a family or spending some years "searching".  As many as 30 alumnae at a time are enrolled in college with support from the JGSF, and many others enlist in the military and receive educational benefits there.

We remain involved in our children's lives as they grow into adulthood, regardless of whether they experience immediate success or not.  Commitment that doesn't do that seems to us "institutionally thin".

On the one hand, we show our students that the sky is the limit.  One student, who grew up on the streets and experienced abuse and deprivation of the worst kind, was so far behind academically that college seemed beyond her reach.  But she was smart, she worked hard, and she wound up attending Harvard College for a two-year special studies program, then graduating from Baylor University with a degree in financial planning.

On the other hand, HCYR maintains an emergency fund to provide aid to graduates who experience sudden losses, whether of a loved one or a job, or land in crisis circumstances, like an inability to meet basic expenses during a period of transition.  Families don't stop caring at age 18, and when our young adults need help from us, if the "lifetime family membership" conveyed to children at their two-year mark is to mean anything, we intend to be there for a lifetime.