The Hope Center and Jobs for the Future Partner to Address Basic Needs at Community Colleges
The Hope Center’s research has revealed that basic needs insecurity creates significant barriers to a student’s success and completion, disproportionately affecting Black, Latinx, Indigenous and low-income students. During fall 2020, nearly three in five students said they suffered from food or housing insecurity; some were homeless. However, The Hope Center also discovered that the financial supports meant to get students through the pandemic were underutilized by those most in need […] ‘Addressing student basic needs is an investment in college completion,’ said Ashley Bliss Lima, associate director of community college success at JFF. ‘This work is about scaling high-impact approaches to emergency student aid that will help extend much-needed relief to community college students across the country.'”