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The research informs the public about the CCAMPIS (Child Care Access Means ParentsIn School) grant program and how it is improving the academic persistence of five single-mothercollege students. Besides offering affordable on-campus child care that is both convenient andhigh quality, the CCAMPIS grant also provided these five single-mother college students theability to improve their social leveraging and social support networks. Social support is having asupport system to turn to in times of need. Social leveraging is having network ties to increasesocial mobility. This includes improving finances, access to better housing and job opportunities,and access to better education. Many single mothers come from resource-poor neighborhoods,and possibly families, where they lack social leveraging. Providing the CCAMPIS grant to helpthese single-mother college students progress through school also gives them the opportunity toimprove their support system with child care facility staff, faculty, other students, and employeesat the college. Connecting with these individuals also helped these single-mother collegestudents improve their social leveraging networks and provide them with opportunities to learnnew parenting techniques, gaining better job opportunities, and learning about more grants andfunding that they can utilize to help lower the cost of school.
