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Attention Student Parents:
Please Join Us For The: End of the Year Celebration and Graduation Party Monday, May 18, 2009 from 4-7 pm Van Cleve Community Center Join us as we celebrate another successful year! Please watch your email for an e-vite invitation in early May. Those who RSVP by Monday, May 11, 2009 are allowed to receive some great giveaways (gift certificates for hair cuts, family outings, Twins games, Bibelot gift cards, University of MN Bookstore gear, and more). A Mexican buffet-style dinner, catered by Burrito Loco, will be provided. |
About the Student Parent HELP Center
The Student Parent HELP (Higher Education for Low-Income People) Center offers programs and services that are designed to promote access, retention, and academic success for University of Minnesota, undergraduate, students who have children. The HELP Center offers various academic and family support services and programming to student parents registered in any undergraduate college on the Twin Cities campus. All HELP Center administered grants and funded programs are restricted to undergraduate, first B.A., students meeting basic income and other eligibility criteria. (See grants section for grant specific eligibility criteria.)
HELP Center brochure in PDF format
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HELP Center Facilities
- 4 PCs and a laptop available in RM 24 Appleby Hall
- Study lounge to study, eat, meet other parents and take breaks
- Refrigerator and 2 microwaves
- Fax machine, copier, printer (free printing), and a phone with an outside line
- Well stocked community resource racks
- HELP Center library with wide-range of topics including child development, academics, parenting, and many more!
- The Kami M. Talley Reading and Resource Center has been relocated from the University Child Care Center to the SPHC as of July 2008. The books located in the Talley Library are primarily therapeutic in nature and address such topics as: violence prevention, divorce and custody, bullying and other transition or crisis based needs and issues.
Please note: No child care services are located within the HELP Center.
What's New
The HELP Center is pleased to announce our continued sponsorship of SPHC's Adopt-A-Family program. This program provides holiday assistance to our own low income student parent families who may not otherwise have been able to celebrate the holiday season due to economic hardship. This year we will continue our collaboration with the U of M Parent Program. Last year, with the help of the Parent Program and two other anonymous U of M departments, we were able to increase the number of families assisted from 6-10 annually to 28. The Parent Program is a unit of our host department, the Office for Student Affairs, and serves parents of current and former U of M students.
HELP Center Newsletter
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