Family Friendly Campus

Resources and community for campus advocates working to improve conditions and success of parenting students

Welcome

The Family Friendly Campus website has grown out of the development and implementation of the Family Friendly Campus Toolkit. Through many years working with advocates to improve outcomes and conditions for parenting students, it became clear that a central location for the wealth of information is needed.

Mom and Daughter at Graduation

Family Friendly Campus Toolkit

The Family Friendly Campus ToolkitUsing Data to Improve Outcomes is an award-winning self-assessment system and guide for improving supports and outcomes for students who are raising children. It is intended for those in higher education—staff, faculty, and students—who want to improve outcomes and conditions for student parents and others. The Toolkit offers a flexible process and set of tools designed to be used in any institution.

The Toolkit can be used to:

  • Raise awareness and increase campus dialogue about student parents
  • Identify and increase visibility of current campus resources for student parents
  • Gather data from and about student parents
  • Learn about recommended practices and improve supports
  • Advocate for and prepare a student parent success initiative
  • Locate helpful resources
  • Provide support for strengthening student parent programs

Recent Initiatives

That feature the Toolkit

College Success for Single Mothers

The College Success for Single Mothers project, led by the National College Transition Network at World Education, in partnership with Achieving the Dream and PERG Learning, supported eight community colleges as they collected data from and about parenting students using the Family Friendly Campus Toolkit.

Family-Friendly Tribal and Rural Campuses

Led by a partnership between the Urban Institute and the American Indian College Fund, with consultation from PERG Learning, the Family Friendly Tribal and Rural Campuses project provides the opportunity for rural and tribal colleges to receive coaching and support in their implementation of the Family Friendly Campus Toolkit over 3 years.

Ascend’s Postsecondary Success for Parents (PSP)– Leadership Circle

Ascend at the Aspen Institute’s PSP Leadership Circle consists of 20 college and university leaders who are implementing innovative strategies to better support parenting students on their campuses.

 “I give a tremendous amount of thanks to the faculty and staff of [my college’s student parent program]. I know that their continuous support has been a catalyst for my success thus far, and I’m very grateful to have been given the opportunity to be a part of such a supportive program.”

Student parent

The Toolkit really is so helpful! It has been instrumental in our work with student parents over the past few years.  As we disseminate our program to other community colleges, we are strongly encouraging them to utilize it too.”

Marni Roosevelt, Founder/Director

Family Resource Center, Los Angeles Valley College