{"id":212051,"date":"2025-03-11T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=212051"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:12:00","slug":"uh-joins-national-effort-to-support-students-basic-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/11\/uh-joins-national-effort-to-support-students-basic-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> joins national effort to support students\u2019 basic needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-campus-gnrc-mccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"student on campus\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-144398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is one of seven states selected to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sheeo.org\/\">State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (<abbr>SHEEO<\/abbr>) Basic Needs Academy<\/a>, a three-year initiative aimed at strengthening data systems and policies that help students succeed. As the lead agency, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> has been awarded a $60,000 grant as part of this new national effort to improve support for students struggling with food insecurity, housing instability, and mental health challenges. The other partner state agencies are the Department of Education and Department of Human Services.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> will use the funding to enhance data systems and work with national experts on solutions that make accessing resources easier. <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> will also collaborate with other state agencies to streamline student support. This could include automatically connecting students who received free school meals in high school to college assistance programs or linking Pell Grant recipients with state benefits they may qualify for.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want to ensure students don\u2019t have to struggle just to meet their basic needs,&rdquo; said Debora Halbert, <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> vice president for academic strategy. &ldquo;By improving data-sharing and policies, we can better connect students with the resources they\u2019re eligible for, making their path to success smoother.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/04\/survey-on-student-hunger-and-housing\/\">Speak up on student hunger and housing: take the basic needs survey<\/a>, February 4, 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Student assistance<\/h2>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>\u2019s role in the initiative is to find better ways to track and address students\u2019 needs across the state. The goal is to create an efficient and connected support system, reducing paperwork and delays for students trying to access food assistance, childcare, housing support and financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s important for states to develop basic needs definitions and identify corresponding data elements and taxonomies that align across state agencies, institutions and partner organizations,&rdquo; said Carrie Klein, associate vice president at <abbr>SHEEO<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<h2>Support at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> continues to address the increasing demand for resources, one of the key resources is <a href=\"https:\/\/star.hawaii.edu\/virtual-kiosk\/app.jsp#!\/kiosk?unit=858\">The Virtual Basic Needs Caf\u00e9<\/a>, an online hub where students across the 10 campuses can find help with food, housing and financial assistance. It\u2019s free and available in the evenings Sunday through Thursday from 8 p.m. to midnight, and during the day Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. The virtual caf\u00e9 is part of the work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/student-basic-needs\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Student Basic Needs Committee<\/a>, formed in 2019 to address the prevalence of food insecurity and other forms of student basic needs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the national initiative go to <a href=\"https:\/\/sheeo.org\/project\/basic-needs\/\"><abbr>SHEEO<\/abbr>\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> has been awarded a $60,000 grant as part of a new national effort to improve support for students struggling with food insecurity, housing and mental health challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-212051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212075,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212051\/revisions\/212075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}