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Attention Student Parents: The Student Parent HELP Center will be hosting the End of the Year/Graduation Event on May 18th, 2008 from 3:00-6:00PM at Van Cleve Community Center. Remember to RSVP to the e-vite that was sent to your U of M email account by Wednesday, April 30th in order to receive an exciting giveaway from one of these many vendors: IMAX Theatre, Build-A-Bear Workshops, Bibelot Gift Shops, Wild Rumpus Bookstore, Underwater Adventure Aquarium, Hair by Stewarts, Trader Joe's, MN Twins, Kafe 421, University Bookstores, MN Thunder, Starbucks, Steak Knife Restaurant, Potbelly Sandwich Works, Espresso 22, Elsie's Bowling Center, Buffalo Wild Wings, MN Lynx, YWCA, and many more!! Hope to see you there! For more information, click on the following link. |
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
- 3 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 a shelf of books in our center on the needs and development of young children who have experienced traumatic life events. These are available on loan.
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 through a new collaboration with U of M Parent Program, we were able to increase the number of families assisted from 6-10 annually to 27. 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. (This "parent-to-parent" holiday program will hopefully become an ongoing collaboration between the SPHC and the Parent Program.)
HELP Center Newsletter
Read our bi-weekly newsletter online!
