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Fresno State’s Center for Essential Needs received a $500,000 Rapid Rehousing and Housing Security Program assistance from the California State University Chancellor’s Office to make and heighten programming for students facing homelessness and lodging insecurity.
Funds volition beryllium disbursed to the halfway from the Chancellor’s Office done June 2028.
Diana Karageozian, pb objective lawsuit manager astatine the Center for Essential Needs, said, “Homelessness has a devastating interaction connected a student’s quality to absorption connected their studies, prosecute their aspirations and physique a future. This assistance volition supply captious enactment to assistance students find unchangeable lodging quickly, truthful they tin enactment focused connected their education, not connected wherever they volition slumber tonight.”
The Center for Essential Needs, formerly known arsenic Project HOPE, was established connected field successful 2016.
The center’s ngo is to supply students with equitable enactment to guarantee their needs are met, and they tin persist to grade completion and idiosyncratic success, portion taking into information each student’s idiosyncratic experiences and beliefs, values and goals for the future.
“This level of enactment from the CSU strategy is simply a testament to their heavy committedness to addressing the astir indispensable needs of Fresno State students,” Karageozian said. “We are incredibly grateful to our enactment for recognizing this captious contented and investing successful the aboriginal of our students.”
Students needing assistance tin conscionable with a lawsuit manager who tin link them to some on- and off-campus resources to enactment housing, nutrient and fiscal security, arsenic good arsenic carnal and intelligence health.
All enrolled students — including undergraduate, graduate, planetary and undocumented students — are eligible for resources disposable astatine the Center for Essential Needs.
“Completing a assemblage grade is transformative. Yet, acold excessively galore students look barriers that forestall them from crossing the decorativeness line,” said Dr. Kent Willis, vice president of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management astatine Fresno State. “We’re thrilled that Fresno State was selected for the CSU’s Rapid Rehousing grant, accelerating our enactment to enactment students and amended graduation rates.”
To larn much astir the Center for Essential Needs, oregon to link with a lawsuit manager, sojourn https://studentaffairs.fresnostate.edu/essentialneeds/index.html.
