Attendance Cost Assistance Program

The Attendance Cost Program can offer the supplemental assistance with tuition, books/supplies, child care, and/or transportation and provide college services to students whose goal is to obtain job skills through vocational education programs.

Eligibility

These services are available to members of Special Populations that lack the necessary job skills to secure and sustain competitive employment and that are in an approved occupational program, can demonstrate financial need, and is:

• A single parent who is unmarried or legally separated from a spouse and has custody or joint custody of minor children.
• A homemaker who has worked as an adult without pay to care for the home and family.
• A displaced homemaker who, because of divorce, separation, the death or disability of a spouse, must prepare for paid employment.

• pursuing vocational/educational training who plans a career field not traditional for his/her
• gender (i.e., women in Computer Aided Design, and men in Nursing)
• A single, pregnant woman.
• A student on Academic Probation.
• A student in Default of a Student Loan.
• Person with disabilities

Students applying for this assistance who are in default of Student loan and/or on Academic probation must meet one of the first four listed criteria for eligibility and must be pursuing a certificate or degree in an approved program of study.