Kennesaw State University CARE RoadMap: Level Three

OVERVIEW

The mission of Campus Awareness, Resource & Empowerment (CARE) Services is to provide financial assistance, access to food, temporary housing, and supportive services in order to foster students’ realization of a healthy, stable, and dignified life both academically and professionally. To serve as a model of professional excellence and effectiveness by upholding core values of social justice, equity, economic sustainability, and mutual partnership.

OBJECTIVE

CARE RoadMap is:

• An interactive training guide for collegiate institutions in search of programming to support special populations dealing with the manifestations of poverty in their pursuit of higher education.
• Designed for an intimate group style format with people doing the work to make a difference and who are seeking access to the tools, network, and ideas to do the work more effectively.

OPPORTUNITY

You will expand upon and customize the concepts and ideas developed in prior CARE RoadMap sessions and/or your current scope of services to best fit the needs of those populations you intend to serve. Select three key topics to discuss with your CARE RoadMap Coach and work together to determine and craft policies, protocols, and programs that best serve your campus and students!

Training topics will include:

• Pantry Inventory and Software
• Public Benefits & Emergency Assistance
• Emergency Housing & Hotel Stays
• Long-Term Housing
• Recruiting & Transitioning Students To College
• Campus & Community Partnerships
• Program Development (Data & Assessment, Policy & Procedures, Developing Fundraising Goals)
  • Data & Assessment
  • Policy & Procedure
  • Developing Fundraising Goals
• Campus Administration, Community Stakeholders & Advisory Board

PROJECT DELIVERABLES

• Pre-Training Check-In: 45-minute call to discuss your institution’s current scope of services and assess your implementation goals in order to make a training level recommendation.
• Initial Staff Training: 2-day in-person training at your campus.
• Staff Training Workbooks: CARE RoadMap Level 3 workbooks to use as a guide for program adaptation.
• Technical Assistance: Twelve 60-minute virtual follow-up consultations for 12 months following training completion.
• Virtual Document Library (VDL): Forms, policies, and procedures used by CARES are available through our VDL during the 12-month Technical Assistance timeframe for an additional licensing fee of $950.00.

Total cost for deliverables (not including travel expenses) = $3,725.00 total for a maximum of five attendees

BENEFIT

• CARE has created a service model, accumulated resources, and built a diverse network of partnerships over 10 years that has fostered a knowledge base and expertise in the area of serving homeless, foster care, and/or food insecure students in a higher education setting.
• CARE has developed corporate partnerships to coincide with our program so that each level of training will include tangible perks for your college and students (i.e. discounts to educational and/or home products).