{"id":48411,"date":"2025-11-13T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48411\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:55:08","slug":"acc-launches-family-resource-corners-for-student-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48411\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC launches Family Resource Corners for student-parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Community College<\/a> is broadening support for students who are parents by establishing Family Resource Corners, which provide essentials such as diapers, wipes and menstrual products, available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/campuses\/highland-campus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Highland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/campuses\/round-rock-campus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Round Rock<\/a> campuses.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s new<\/p>\n<p>The Family Resource Corners are a part of ACC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/social-support\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">basic needs<\/a> system, which aims to support students\u2019 access to food, housing and mental health resources. They will be available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/essential-resources\/riverbat-bites-food-pantry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riverbats Bites Food Pantries.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership allows us to meet students where they are,\u201d Cara Crowley, special advisor to the chancellor for Basic Needs Systems, said in a news release. \u201c&#8230; When a parent can pick up diapers or period products on campus, that\u2019s one less worry and one more reason to stay in school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the news release, approximately 1 in 3 ACC students is a parent. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/Documents\/Student-Parent-Data.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> by the American Council on Education found that 18% of student-parents received a bachelor&#8217;s or associate degree within six years of study, compared to 54% of dependent, non-parenting students.<\/p>\n<p>The funding source<\/p>\n<p>A $20,000 grant from the Austin Community Foundation\u2019s 2025 Forever Austin Fund, through the <a href=\"https:\/\/austindiapers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Diaper Bank<\/a>, is funding the Family Resource Corners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo parent should have to choose between diapers and a degree,\u201d Executive Director of Austin Diaper Bank Kim Parker said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Community College is broadening support for students who are parents by establishing Family Resource Corners, which provide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,11987,134,133,27779,17146,4663,6240],"class_list":{"0":"post-48411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-community-college","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-diapers","13":"tag-highland","14":"tag-parents","15":"tag-round-rock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}