[Wsssc] Homeless Students

[Blakeney, Erin]

Hi Joe,
Similar to what Dave mentioned, we worked to develop a list of resources for our students who are dealing with homelessness & food insecurity.

I partnered with a couple instructors/classes last year to do a campaign about homelessness & we did a hygiene kit drive and created about 100 kits that we have available for students who need toiletry items - and our diversity center, workforce education, veterans office, and advisors have them in their offices for students.

We have partnered with our local YMCA - they have a food stability program and they provide us with small food packs on a regular basis that we can give to students.

We also identified a staff member (who is also part of our CARE team) to serve as a primary point of contact for those students who have been identified as needing homeless/food insecurity resources.

There is a lot more we could/should be doing - so I am interested to hear what others have in place.

Thanks!

Erin Blakeney
Dean for Student Success Services
eblakeney at cascadia.edu<mailto:eblakeney at cascadia.edu>  |  425.352.8534  |  www.cascadia.edu<http://www.cascadia.edu/>

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From: wsssc [mailto:wsssc-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Paul
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 6:05 PM
To: Joe Holliday <jholliday at sbctc.edu>; wsssc at lists.ctc.edu
Subject: Re: [Wsssc] Homeless Students

Hi Joe,
We've worked hard to develop partnerships with community organizations that could provide services to students who might be homeless.  We also have an expanded emergency fund program that a student could use for short-term housing costs.

Our students are allowed to use the showers in our gym without charge (there is sometimes a misperception that they need to pay the Fitness Center fee to use the showers, but that is not the case).

We do not have discounted meals or a food pantry yet (although we have discussed instituting the latter).

Dave

David M. Paul, Ph.D.
Vice President for Student Services
Skagit Valley College
2405 East College Way   Mount Vernon WA, 98273
(360) 416-7738

From: wsssc [mailto:wsssc-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Holliday
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 2:13 PM
To: wsssc at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wsssc at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: [Wsssc] Homeless Students

Colleagues: are any of you providing programs or services for homeless students? There is a new bill in the Legislature (Senate Bill 5903) that would - among other things - create a pilot program for two of our colleges to do so. Examples given in the bill are short-term housing, access to showers and laundry facilities, and discounted meals. I'm interested in knowing if we would be starting from scratch or if some of you are somewhat down this road already.

We need to produce a fiscal note (estimate of cost) by next Monday, so it would be great to hear back from you by then if you have anything to share. Thanks very much.

[Joe]
Joe Holliday
Director of Student Services

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1300 Quince St SE, PO Box 42495
Olympia, WA 98504-2495
360-704-4334    jholliday at sbctc.edu<mailto:jholliday at sbctc.edu>

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