The Passport to College Promise Scholarship program (Passport) was created in 2007 by the state of Washington to help students from foster care attend and succeed in college. Without significant intervention, fewer than two percent of foster youth are likely to attain a bachelor’s degree.

Passport is a comprehensive program providing support to students from high school through higher education completion. Three primary components are administered by the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC):
1. A student scholarship to provide former foster youth with financial assistance beyond other state, federal, private, and institutional financial aid for which they are eligible,
2. Campus incentive funding to postsecondary institutions that designate campus support staff and take other steps to recruit and retain former foster youth, and
3. A partnership with the College Success Foundation to provide additional student intervention and retention services to foster youth and training and technical assistance to campus staff.