California Student Opportunity and Access Program

The California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP) was established by the state legislature in 1978. Today, Cal-SOAP is instrumental in improving the flow of information about post-secondary education and financial aid while raising the achievement levels of low-income, elementary and secondary school students or geographic regions with documented low-eligibility or college participation rates, and who are first in their families to attend college.

Current Cal-SOAP projects include: Central Coast (Santa Maria), Central Valley (San Joaquin), East Bay/Solano (Oakland, Richmond and Solano County), Inland Empire (through CSU San Bernardino), Long Beach, Los Angeles, Merced, Northcoast (Eureka), Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego/Imperial, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Barbara, South County Gilroy, and South San Joaquin.

The Riverside County Cal-SOAP Program consortium members include:

High School Members:

Hemet Unified School District
Moreno Valley Unified School District
Murrieta Valley Unified School District
Perris Union High School District
San Jacinto Unified School District
Temecula Valley Unified School District
Val Verde Unified School District

Higher Education Members:

Moreno Valley College (MVC)
Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC)
University of California, Riverside (UCR)

Partners:

California Colleges Guidance Initiative (CCGI)
Growing Inland Achievement (GIA)

The Cal-SOAP program is administered by the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC), with individual projects applying each year for continued state funding.

For more information, please visit the Cal-SOAP website or contact us at rivcocalsoap@rcoe.us.

Contact

Matthew Elder
Director, Cal-SOAP
melder@rcoe.us
(951) 521-8190

Cherrie Cunningham
Program Manager, Cal-SOAP
ccunningham@rcoe.us
(951) 529-9306