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.
Family Friendly Campus Toolkit
The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit: Using 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
“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