Somerset Community College (SCC) is excited to denote that the CCAMPIS (Child Care Access Means Parents successful School) national assistance has been renewed for an further 4 years with $1,331,428 from the Department of Education.
First awarded successful 2018, SCC has been rewarded with renewal of the CCAMPIS Grant done 2026. Since the inception of the CCAMPIS assistance program, SCC has served 51 student-parents, 47% person since graduated, and either transferred to a four-year schoolhouse oregon gone into the workforce. Of those graduating students, 16% went connected to prosecute their undergraduate degrees astatine 4-year universities. The different 37% person persisted each year. The mean GPA implicit the people of the grant’s 4-year rhythm frankincense acold is 3.12 with the nationalist mean GPA astatine a 4-year assemblage being 3.15
Student-parents are 1 of the fastest-growing populations connected assemblage campuses crossed the nation. One successful 5 assemblage students are raising a family, and this fig is somewhat higher astatine assemblage colleges wherever it is 1 successful four. Childcare is conscionable 1 of the obstacles pupil parents person erstwhile attending school. Many student-parents spot unneurotic childcare with partners, relatives, oregon little dependable attraction that often falls isolated during the semester. This causes galore students to miss class, not beryllium capable to ore connected their homework and hazard world nonaccomplishment due to the fact that their childcare enactment web fails.
The Department of Education’s CCAMPIS assistance supports low-income student-parents successful their postsecondary acquisition done campus-based oregon off-campus childcare services. This besides includes wrap-around services to assistance the student-parent beryllium palmy successful schoolhouse and beryllium a stronger parent. Studies amusement that erstwhile fixed the indispensable wrap-around supports portion taking assemblage classes, pupil parents volition postgraduate faster, and often with a higher GPA than their chap non-parent students.
“CCAMPIS makes it imaginable for maine to be my classes. Without childcare, it is definite I would not beryllium capable to beryllium pursuing my imagination of becoming a nurse. The ADN programme requires a batch of time, work, and studying. CCAMPIS has made this imagination go truthful overmuch person to a reality,” said Josette Pitman an SCC Student Ambassador and Nursing Program student.
Tonya Brown, CCAMPIS Project Director said “CCAMPIS is simply a fantastic assistance which extends SCC the privilege of being a large assistance to its student-parent population, arsenic good as, providing america accidental to beryllium an assistance to our agrarian assemblage childcare centers. It’s an all-around win-win!”
Student-parents who are enrolled successful astatine slightest 6 recognition hours, Pell eligible and person astatine slightest a 1.5 GPA whitethorn use connected SCC’s website. The eligible student-parents volition person CCAMPIS grant notifications of the magnitude of childcare subsidy they are to person wrong 1 world term. Those subsidies are paid to the partnering childcare halfway which the pupil has elected to enroll their kid (children).
Through this assistance SCC presently partners with 17 childcare centers from Pulaski, Laurel, Rockcastle, Jackson and Wayne counties; however, we proceed to prosecute expanding partnerships to service our student-parents and assemblage childcare centers.
While the CCAMPIS assistance is intended to service our student-parents, it besides affords america the accidental to assistance our agrarian childcare centers arsenic well. The task allows america the imaginable to assistance our partnering centers successful maintaining prime attraction done KY ALL STARS and NAEYC accreditations.
For much accusation astir the CCAMPIS grant, delight interaction Tonya Brown, CCAMPIS Program Coordinator at
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