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How Colleges Can Promote Equity to Support Low-Income Students
An advanced degree helps low-income working students gain financial stability. A new report explores how colleges can support their success.
Developed by the Casey Foundation, the Center for Working Families model helps low-income individuals and families get on a path to financial stability. Key to the approach is the coordination of key services at single, convenient locations, making these resources more accessible to individuals and families needing assistance. Funders and organizations throughout the country took up and adapted this approach, forming the Working Families Success Network in 2013.
An advanced degree helps low-income working students gain financial stability. A new report explores how colleges can support their success.
Report
This report focuses on two community colleges and their efforts to build and support equity for students from historically underserved groups. Both institutions were part of the Working Students Success Network, a broader effort — spanning 19 colleges in four states — aimed at providing pathways and integrated services to help low-income working students succeed.
Report
This report discusses the evolution and impact of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Center for Working Families framework, which is an integrated service delivery approach designed to help low-income families achieve financial security.
A report explores Casey’s Center for Working Families framework, which helps low-income families gain financial security through jobs and education.
Young parents face daily hurdles — from finding child care to pursuing education and jobs — according to a study funded by the Casey Foundation.
Atlanta’s Dunbar Learning Complex helps kids prepare for kindergarten while supporting parents’ jobs and stability. New data shows it’s working.
Enrollment is open for Atlanta’s free, four-week Construction Ready program to help low-income residents gain skills for construction jobs.
In this economy, financial stability often requires all parents to work. Thus, child care must be affordable so parents can earn family-supporting wages.
An Aug. 9 Foundation webinar will highlight a new tool that helps nonprofits and schools better engage parents in their work and develop parent leaders.
Newsletter
This issue of Casey Connects highlights how the Foundation is advancing two-generation strategies to achieve positive community change. It looks at large-scale, long-term efforts to break the cycle of poverty in Baltimore and Atlanta. It also tells how schools, families and communities across the country are working together to help third graders hit key reading milestones.
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