TRIO Talent Search is an outreach program of information, educational enhancement and support. The program assists low-income, and/or first-generation, potential college-bound students in grades six through twelve in the following schools: Kankakee High School, Kankakee Junior High School, Kennedy Middle Grade School, King Middle Grade School, St. Anne Community High School.

The program is administered at KCC through a U.S. Department of Education grant. Six hundred students are served in the TRIO Talent Search program each school year. All services provided by the program are free to all the student who qualify and are enrolled.