For Immediate Release:
NON-PROFIT GENERATION HOPE TO EXPAND STUDENT PARENT SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH THIRD FAMILYU COHORT
The 2023 FamilyU Cohort will advance and propel student parent success by bringing colleges and universities together to drive deep institutional change
WASHINGTON ⸺ February 15, 2023 ⸺ Non-profit Generation Hope announced today they will be opening applications for the third cohort of their FamilyU technical assistance program. FamilyU welcomes applications from higher education institutions that are seeking to participate in this comprehensive, customized, evidence-based, two-year capacity-building experience designed to build and refine institutional competencies to improve student-parent success. Generation Hope will announce the institutions selected for the 2023 FamilyU Cohort in summer 2023.
Founded in 2010, Generation Hope works with education and policy partners to drive systemic change and provide direct support to young parents in college and their children through holistic, two-generation programming. Their FamilyU Cohort is transforming the higher education field by engaging institutional teams and providing them with peer learning convenings and campus-focused independent coaching sessions. Over the two-year experience, FamilyU institutions increase awareness of their student-parent population; enhance their student-parent work across the institution by involving various departments and key stakeholders; improve data collection methods and tools to better track the parenting status of students; and more.
Eleven institutions have participated in Generation Hope's FamilyU Cohort to date, advancing student-parent success across the country. Members of each FamilyU Cohort receive a myriad of benefits including a customized work plan guided by Generation Hope’s Student Parent Campus Capacity Assessment; a dedicated coach to analyze the institution’s results; 15 one-on-one customized coaching sessions focused on the respective institution over two years, engaging representatives from a range of departments; and eight, interactive, cohort convenings aligned with Generation Hope’s Core Competency Areas for student parent success — Data, Policy, Culture, and People. Upon completion of the Cohort, institutions will each receive a $20,000 grant to advance their student parent work.
FamilyU builds on Generation Hope’s firmly held value of racial equity, a key pillar of successful student-parent work. Knowing that race equity is both an outcome and a process and is realized when race is no longer the determining factor in a person’s success, preference in the 2023 cohort application process will be given to institutions that champion race equity through policies and practices. Generation Hope will host two information sessions with live Q&A via Zoom for all interested applicants on Wednesday, February 22 from 2-3 pm ET and Thursday, April 13 from 4-5 pm ET. Applications are due on April 30th.
Generation Hope will select up to five, two and four-year colleges or universities to participate in the 2023 FamilyU Cohort. Preference will be given to HBCUs, though all institutions are encouraged to apply.
Beyond Generation Hope’s FamilyU cohorts, the non-profit provides customizable technical assistance to institutions and organizations looking to enhance their services for student parents and teen parents. Since its inception, Generation Hope has been dedicated to changing the statistics that fewer than 2% of teen mothers earn a college degree before the age of 30, and more than half of all parenting college students leave school without a degree. They have worked with more than 300 young parents in college and have celebrated nearly 150 degrees earned.
To register for the February 22nd webinar, please RSVP here. To register for the April 13th webinar, please RSVP here. To follow updates about the 2023 FamilyU Cohort and Generation Hope, please visit generationhope.org.
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About Generation Hope
To ensure all student parents have the opportunities to succeed and experience economic mobility, Generation Hope engages education and policy partners to drive systemic change and provides direct support to teen parents in college as well as their children through holistic, two-generation programming. @supportgenhope