Generation Hope-NOVA Partnership: Help Identify Qualified Student Parents

Generation Hope, a Washington, D.C.-based organization, offers tuition scholarships, mentors, mental health support, tutoring, career coaching, and more to teen parents to help them attend and succeed in college. Can you help us alert our students that this opportunity is available?

To be eligible, a student must:

• Be or have been a teen pregnant or a parent at age 19 or younger;
• Currently 25 or younger;
• Be attending, or planning to attend, college in the DC metro area seeking an Associate’s degree;
• Taking a minimum of 6 credits/semester;
• US Citizen, Permanent Legal Resident, DACA recipient (contact Generation Hope for specific questions regarding immigration status and eligibility).

The application and program information can be found here and further information about the Generation Hope organization can be found here.

Please help us identify all parenting students who can benefit from these services by sharing the application website with all of your students. The application deadline has been extended to April 19.

Questions? Contact Director of Programming Caroline Griswold Short at 202.642.5649 or caroline@generationhope.org.

Submitted by:
Keri Bowman, kbowman@nvcc.edu