CLASP, February 12, 2016: Aiding College Students through Effective Access to Emergency Aid and Food-Housing Insecurity Relief
“Two recent studies by the University of Wisconsin HOPE Lab surveyed food and housing needs of community college students as well as the capacity of colleges and universities to respond to the emergency financial needs of students. According to the studies, colleges and universities are frequently unaware of low-income students’ food and housing insecurity and fail to direct them to supplementary resources or public benefits. For colleges, the capacity to extend emergency resources for these and other challenges faced by low-income students are loosely coordinated and vary widely across campuses.”