For Immediate Release:
GENERATION HOPE ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL FAMILYU SEAL LIST, HONORING HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS MAKING STRIDES TO SUPPORT STUDENT PARENTS
WASHINGTON ⸺ September 14, 2023 ⸺ Generation Hope, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring all student parents have the opportunities to succeed and experience economic mobility, announced today its inaugural FamilyU Seal recipients. The FamilyU Seal program is a national certification for higher education institutions making significant strides in intentionally serving parenting students. The Seal also recognizes nonprofit organizations that are directly serving parenting students and in doing so are achieving outstanding outcomes.
“Over the years, it has been thrilling to witness more institutions and nonprofit organizations investing in the success of student parents, as Generation Hope has been working to guarantee they have the support and resources they need to graduate and experience economic mobility since 2010,” said Nicole Lynn Lewis, Founder and CEO of Generation Hope. “We are thrilled to honor those institutions and nonprofit organizations through the FamilyU Seal program that are not only acknowledging parenting students but also aiding their pathway to and through college.”
The higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations selected for the 2023 FamilyU Seal were evaluated in accordance with the framework of Generation Hope’s FamilyU program, which works to build a more inclusive and supportive higher education ecosystem for student parents. The recipients on this year’s list exhibit a dedication to investing in student parents and cultivating environments that better serve this population. The higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations selected for the 2023 FamilyU Seal are:
George Mason University
Madison College
Misericordia University Ruth Matthews Bourger Women with Children Program
Montgomery College
Mott Community College
Mount Mary University
Mount Wachusett Community College
Northern Virginia Community College
Oregon State University
Palo Alto College
San Diego Mesa College
St. Catherine University
Trinity Washington University
Jeremiah Program
Generation Hope has also identified an exemplar higher education institution and an exemplar nonprofit organization from this list that will receive a $25,000 and $15,000 award, respectively. The exemplar higher education institution is Montgomery College, and the exemplar nonprofit is Jeremiah Program. Awards will be presented at Generation Hope’s national conference, “HOPE 2024: Where Change Happens for Student Parents and Families,” in New Orleans, LA March 13-15, 2024.
Generation Hope’s FamilyU cohort program is a comprehensive, customized, evidence-based, two-year capacity-building experience designed to build and refine institutional competencies to improve student parent success. Since 2021, over 16 colleges and universities have partnered with Generation Hope through the FamilyU initiative to help promote student parent success, impacting more than 100,000 student parents.
Since 2010, Generation Hope has also directly worked with young parents in college, celebrating 170 degrees earned and having served more than 400 young parents at over 20 different two- and four-year schools in the Washington D.C. metro region. Generation Hope recently launched its Scholar Program in New Orleans, Louisiana in July and now serves 26 teen parents in college there.
To learn more about the 2023 FamilyU Seal program, please visit www.generationhope.org/familyu-seal.
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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