{"id":45657,"date":"2018-08-13T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45657"},"modified":"2018-08-13T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:25:23","slug":"acc-awarded-30000-grant-to-help-students-pay-for-unexpected-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/08\/13\/acc-awarded-30000-grant-to-help-students-pay-for-unexpected-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC awarded $30,000 grant to help students pay for unexpected expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Austin Community College was awarded a $30,000 Project Success: Emergency Fund Grant to help students who are facing unforeseen financial needs continue on their educational pathways. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The grant, awarded by Trellis Company in collaboration with Federal Student Aid, has helped 46 ACC students over the past year. The funds covered expenses such as housing, utilities, and transportation repairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor many low-income students, an unforeseen expense for something like a car repair will create a financial emergency that threatens their college hopes,\u201d says Dr. Virginia Fraire, vice president of student services. \u201cWhile typically not large expenses, they can be enough to force these students into a tough choice: Stay in college or pay the bill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research has shown that when colleges quickly pay these unforeseen, emergency bills on behalf of students, more low-income college students stay enrolled and on track for graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After receiving emergency grant funds, students have access to Trellis\u2019 financial coaching program. Coaching sessions are individualized to the needs of each student, confidential, delivered virtually (via phone and video), and free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information or to apply for help through ACC\u2019s student emergency fund, visit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/students\/student-emergency-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student Emergency Fund webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or call 512-223-7551.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College was awarded a $30,000 Project Success: Emergency Fund Grant to help students who are facing unforeseen financial needs continue on their educational pathways. The grant, awarded by Trellis Company in collaboration with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/08\/13\/acc-awarded-30000-grant-to-help-students-pay-for-unexpected-expenses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":40166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,17,18,19],"tags":[1987,1991,1988,1989,170,505,1990],"class_list":["post-45657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-official-acc-press-releases","category-students-and-alumni","tag-emergency-fund-grant","tag-federal-student-aid","tag-financial","tag-financial-assistance","tag-grant","tag-student-emergency-fund","tag-trellis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}