Provide on-campus one-stop benefits screening, application assistance, and case management to reduce nonacademic barriers to persistence¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The strategy connects enrolled students to federal, state, and local benefits (food stamps, WIC, Medicaid) plus wraparound services (tax preparation, financial counseling, legal services, child care, housing) through on-campus coordinators. Coordinators conduct preliminary screening "to determine whether they qualify for federal, state, or local benefits", then provide application assistance and follow up, advocating with agencies if a student is wrongly denied. This is the intervention model whose implementation the WWC reviewed.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Site coordinators trained through an eight-week online launch curriculum, an on-campus office, screening software, and comparison-group access limited to other campus and public resources

Constraints¶

• Intensity of support depends on individual student needs; the program provides no direct financial assistance to students

Target Learners¶

• Low-income community college students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Persistence in college
• Academic achievement

Related Strategies¶

• Mobilize community colleges to address low-income students' basic needs and financial stability to support completion

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• What Works Clearinghouse. (November 2020). Single Stop USA's Community College Initiative. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/InterventionReport/709