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This was a live-streamed session at the 2024 SNAP E&T National Forum. With a shared focus on propelling economic mobility and career pathways, community college and human service partnerships can have a transformative impact on people and communities. By expanding collaboration amongst community colleges, human services, and workforce partners to create robust SNAP E&T programs, states can braid resources and move from focusing on individual fixes to developing systemic solutions that boost college access and connection to careers that offer economic mobility. In this session, attendees will hear how states and community colleges can leverage SNAP access and SNAP E&T, and center lived expertise to reduce basic needs insecurity and close opportunity gaps. Watch this session to gain tactical strategies you can replicate in your own communities and hear lessons learned from three national partners who have led or supported the development of SNAP E&T community college programs and intermediary models across multiple states.
Presenters:
- Kate Kinder, Executive Director, National Council for Workforce Education
- Rachel Hirsch, Vice President, Public Partnerships, CAEL
- Linda Rhoads, Senior Project Associate, Center for Policy and Practice, Association of Community College Trustees