This chapter offers strategies for creating support resources for students who face nonacademic barriers such as housing insecurity, food insecurity, lack of transportation and dependable childcare, and the need for mental health care and illness. These strategies should be viewed as ideas to help retain students and create lasting partnerships between rural community colleges and community organizations.
Waters-Bailey, M.S. McGraw, and J. Barr. “Serving the Whole Student: Addressing Nonacademic Barriers Facing Rural Community College Students.” New Directions for Community Colleges 2019 (187): 83-93. Doi: 10.1002/cc20372
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