Students with dependent children have represented about one in four college students in the United States for at least two decades. But their demographics and the complexity of their resource and support needs have only started to receive attention among colleges and the broader public relatively recently. Prior efforts to conduct research on student parents have largely focused on individual issues, taking a siloed approach to policy and systems change. The Student-Parent Families at the Center Framework offers an alternative perspective, positioning policies and systems in relation to one another. By centering parenting students at their families, this Framework details the intersection of a wide range of policies, programs, and issues as families as they pursue college and career pathways.
In this webinar, participants will learn about the Framework and be able to situate it within racial, gender, and intersectional dynamics of marginalization across the policy landscape. They will learn how the Roadmap provides a starting point to address policy inequities and inefficiencies by designing for parenting students, which would allow higher education and other social policy systems to be more inclusive of many individual and family identities. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and engage in an activity that allows them to think about applying these resources in a familiar postsecondary context.
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