Bilingual College and Career Readiness.

Bilingual college and career readiness for families, school districts, community colleges, businesses, and the agencies serving students alongside them. Here's the work itself, and what working with us actually looks like.

Empowered Admissions team
40,000+ Applications Read
50+ Years Experience
100% Bilingual Team

Move Your CCI Numbers.

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Bilingual Family Engagement

P.O.W.E.R. Series sessions in English and Spanish, so families take part in the decision as it happens.

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College and Career Readiness Strategy

A counselor-led sequence students work through, with each step confirmed before the next.

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Student Worktexts and Coaching

LOCK IN, a seven-book worktext series for high school students, and Make Your Move for adult and community college students.

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Career Pathway Alignment and Retention Support

Eight routes taught side by side, never ranked.

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Staff Training and Data Integration

Facilitator certification and help fitting record-keeping to the systems a district already uses.

We claim no grant eligibility on your behalf, and no score is ever promised.

Backed by a team, not a call center.

Empowered Admissions team

One direct point of contact for every family, district, or partner, backed by a team that shares the same focus on bilingual, California-specific college guidance.

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Ela Rubio

Founder & Director

Bilingual college and career advising for California families. Twenty years working with districts and community colleges on access, readiness, and the systems that get students across the finish line.

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Maria Elena Rivas

Family Engagement Lead

P.O.W.E.R. Series sessions in English and Spanish. Former high school counselor who built family engagement programs in districts where Spanish was the language in the home, not the office.

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Dr. James Okafor

Data & Strategy

CCI, A-G, FAFSA, and dual enrollment data for districts and community colleges. Helps partners see where students are falling out of the pipeline before anyone calls a meeting about it.

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Sofia Chen

Community College Pathways

Transfer pathways, career technical education, and the California College Promise Grant for community college students. Works with both first-time freshmen and adults returning to finish what they started.

What working with us actually looks like.

The same process, whether you're a family, a district, a business, or an agency. Only the plan itself changes.

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We Start With Your Data

We pull your CCI, A-G, FAFSA, and dual enrollment data and identify where students are falling out of the pipeline by site, subgroup, and grade.

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We Build the Plan

A CCR strategy for a district, a coaching plan for a family, a partnership structure for an agency or business, built around your real numbers, not a template.

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We Deliver, In English and Spanish

Coaching sessions, staff training, family engagement, worktexts. Whatever the plan calls for, bilingual from the start.

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We Track What Moves

CCI, A-G, FAFSA rates, completion, whatever metric actually matters to you, so you know it's working.