Document Category: Research study (not in a journal)

The impact of COVID-19 on campus-based support programs serving students with foster care experience: Focus groups with administrators and students (2022)

Highlights
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Series of focus groups were conducted with campus administrators and students with foster care histories to increase our understanding of the experiences they faced during the pandemic in college and university settings.
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Campus administrators quickly adapted service delivery to ensure students’ needs were met and found creative ways to stay connected with students.
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Students discussed their efforts to access resources, to stay connected with peers, and use of strategies to manage academic, financial, and mental health challenges.
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Findings highlighted participants’ resilience and ability to manage their own self-care and lean on others for support.

The Financial Well-Being of Parents Pursuing Postsecondary Education (2024)

This new brief published by the SPARK Collaborative uses 2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) data to document student parents’ living expenses, the resources student parents leverage to attend postsecondary education, and the gaps student parents face between their expenses and their resources.

Providing for a Community How a Basic Needs Center Uses Assessment to House Students (2024)

This article discusses how practitioners at the University of Colorado Boulder use
assessment to refine an Emergency Housing Assistance program through a Basic Needs
Center. Leaders of the center use people-driven practices combined with quantitative and
qualitative assessment practices to provide housing relief for students. We show how
equity-centered assessment practices improve student health and well-being. Practitioners
across the country can apply actions from this center’s assessment to assist students at
their own universities to secure reliable and safe housing.