Karen Webber, MSW, LBSW
Student Support Specialist/Single Parent Coordinator
Email: Karen Webber
The Occupational Student Success Program is open to all Special Population students. A Special Population student is a person who, through a formal assessment, has been deemed as being one of the following:
Single Parent, Including Single Pregnant Woman – An individual who
- Is unmarried or separated from a spouse, and has a minor child or children for which the parent has either custody or joint custody.
- Is unmarried or separated from a spouse and is pregnant.
Displaced Homemaker – An individual who is under-employed or unemployed and is experiencing difficulty in obtaining employment or upgrading employment AND:
- Has worked primarily without remuneration to care for a home and family, and for that reason has diminished marketable skills; or
- Has been dependent upon the income of another family member but is no longer supported by that income; or
- Is a parent whose youngest dependent child will become ineligible to receive assistance under Part A of the Title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C 601 et seq.) not later than two (2) years after the date on which the parent applies for assistance this Title.
Economically Disadvantaged – An individual from economically disadvantaged families, including foster children. This individual must be one or more of the following;
- A Pell grant recipient or recipient of some other form of financial assistance,
- A migrant, and /or
- Referred by faculty or staff as requiring support services to succeed.
Non-Traditional Training and Employment Participate – An individual enrolled in an occupational program that is considered non-traditional for his/her gender as determined by National Labor Statistics and State Year-End Program enrollment data. These occupations or fields of work generally include careers in computer science, technology, and other emerging high skill occupations for which individuals from one gender comprise less than twenty five (25%) percent of the individuals employed in each occupation or field of work.
Individual with a Disability – A person having any of the disabilities as in Section 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Occupational Student Success Program brochure