Serving Humboldt and Trinity county high school students and preparing them for college success since 1966! TRiO WORKS!!!
About the Program
TRiO Upward Bound is a federally funded college preparatory program, designed to generate the skills and motivation necessary for postsecondary educational success among limited income high school students whose parents do not hold a four year college degree.
Upward Bound serves eligible high school students to prepare for postsecondary education through a program of academic, recreational, cultural, and interpersonal activities provided at no cost to participants.
Qualify and Apply
Students who are enrolled in one of our six target area high schools, are in 9, 10, and 11th grades and have a
- Desire to go to college AND are
- Income Eligible OR
- First in their family to go to college OR
- Demonstrate high academic need
All services are free to participants. Students and parents/guardians must complete an application for consideration and will be interviewed by project staff in person, by telephone, or through a suitable online conferencing platform
High Schools We Serve
Arcata High School | Hoopa Valley High School | South Fork High School | Hayfork High School l Southern Trinity High School | Trinity High School
Program Details
Designed to enrich students’ secondary education and motivate and guide them to pursue and persist in a postsecondary education environment.
Academic Year Component
During the academic year, participants receive tutoring, academic advising and monitoring, college and career exploration, and financial aid awareness provided by project staff during school visits. Other activities include Winter Academy, National TRiO Day, Student Leadership conferences, and National First Generation Celebration events.
During the COVID 19 pandemic we’ve transitioned most of our events to a virtual platform, and have been able to add more to the academic year component.
Our Book Club Coordinator holds bi-monthly meetings with students where discussions are held surrounding book content in relation to student life and current events.
Our Academic Year Mentor coordinates various extracurricular activities focusing on social and emotional learning with topics ranging from:
- Art activities
- Journaling
- Hands-on cooking activities
- Special topics to assist students with
- Academic coursework
- Study Skills enhancement
- Scholarship Central
Summer Residential Session
During the six -week summer session, students reside on campus in residence halls at Cal Poly Humboldt and are involved in a rigorous schedule of academic, social, recreational, and cultural activities.
It is our hope to return to an on-campus environment in future summer academies. However, the past two summer sessions were successfully delivered in a virtual platform where students participated in courses, core group activities, program events, UB internships, UB Arts Alive and our UB awards ceremony.
TRiO/GEAR UP Annual Winter Academy
Student Centered Workshops
TRiO Alumni sharing their story
2021 UB Virtual Awards Ceremony
National TRiO Day at the Capitol
2021 UB Virtual Arts Alive