Three in five college students do not have enough to eat or a stable place to live; millions of students experience basic needs insecurity, including a lack of access to adequate housing, food, health care and mental health services, child care, internet connectivity, and transportation. Basic needs security is a social determinant of health and the lack of it hampers postsecondary student success, inhibits social mobility, and deepens inequities. We are changing the unjust status quo.
The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University is an action-oriented research, policy, and capacity-building center removing barriers to college student success and well-being through:
