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This year, the Student Health and Counseling Center supported astir 200 parent-scholars and their families, which included much than 450 children of Fresno State students, with schoolhouse supplies. The interaction of Assembly Bill 2881 extends acold beyond the numbers — it represents Fresno State’s committedness to easing the burdens of parent-scholars who are juggling the demands of higher acquisition portion raising a family.
With an estimated 1 successful 5 assemblage students being pupil parents, parent-scholars look unsocial challenges specified arsenic balancing coursework with childcare, fiscal strain and the affectional toll of managing aggregate roles. The back-to-school play tin beryllium peculiarly stressful for these families, which is wherefore the Fresno State Student Health and Counseling Center’s inaugural to enactment parent-scholars is crucial.
By offering items similar backpacks, pens, pencils, highlighters, crayons, notebooks and binders successful an Aug. 12 giveaway, the inaugural ensured these families person a fewer little things to interest about. A information of the Student Health and Counseling Center’s wide fund is utilized for parent-scholar support. The wellness halfway received further enactment from Associated Students Inc., which donated implicit 500 supplies (pencils and accent balls), and Clovis Rotary, which donated a full of 50 pre-filled backpacks with schoolhouse supplies.
Many students shared their gratitude successful an anonymous survey of parent-scholars who received supplies:
“Thank you truthful overmuch for doing this giveaway! It is going to assistance tremendously since we inactive person to spell buying for apparel and shoes. I don’t person to interest astir the supplies anymore! Thank you again, we admit this!”
“My hubby and I are beyond thankful that Fresno State tin assistance america get our kid’s schoolhouse supplies, since we are going done a fiscal hardship. Thank you from the bottommost of our hearts! It means much than you know.”
“I americium a postgraduate pupil and it’s been highly hard connected my household and maine arsenic I americium incapable to clasp a full-time occupation since I volition beryllium starting my 800-hour internship adjacent semester. Getting schoolhouse supplies volition decidedly beryllium a blessing and 1 little happening to interest astir portion inactive gathering my kids’ acquisition needs.”
While much than 1,350 parent-scholars person been identified astatine Fresno State, the assemblage estimates that fig is overmuch larger.
For much information, oregon to larn however to enactment the parent-scholar initiative, sojourn https://studentaffairs.fresnostate.edu/health/wellness/studentparents.html oregon email parentscholars@mail.fresnostate.edu.
(Written by Alexis Ford-Duncil, Health Communications and Promotion Specialist, Student Health and Counseling Center)
