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Campaigns for lasting change

Our initiatives move policy, build mutual aid, and elevate student leadership so no one navigating foster care or homelessness has to fight alone.

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Three pillars behind the movement

Each program involves advocacy and infrastructure for community care to provide stability for the students now and for the future.

Passport Scholarship Protection Campaign

Active

Objective

To make Passport Scholarships students a protected class within the state

The objective here is to protect Passport Scholarship students by formulating passport student testimony, forming a cross campus coalition of chapters and leaving our mark. There is strength in numbers.

Key milestones

  1. Collect testimony from Passport students across the state
  2. Form a coalition among colleges/universities and their allies
  3. Work with legislators to help create a protected class for Passport students
  4. Hold events to ensure that students attend relevant public comments and testimonies

Student Support Network

Active

Objective

To form a support network for students who experience housing and/or food insecurity.

Objective is to expand our rapid response services, mentoring, mutual aid, and navigation so that students can stay enrolled and nourished via community care.

Key milestones

  1. Create a community of both Passport alumni and current Passport students for peer mentoring and support for graduate students who are otherwise ineligible for Passport Could still benefit from the community.
  2. Create comprehensive resource guides for housing, legal, and financial support for Passport students' specific needs
  3. I have weekly community get-togethers and mutual aid events
  4. Establish emergency micro grant process with partner organizations

National Passport Program Expansion

Planning

Objective

Spread Washington state’s example nationwide so other states can build Passport-style support.

Our goal is to create a portable structure, bring together national partners, and prepare model legislation so students experiencing homelessness or foster care can access higher education across the country.

Key milestones

  1. Mapping current post-secondary support initiatives in the United States
  2. Joint development of flexible program tool kits with partner states
  3. Policy play book development and model bill language
  4. Technical assistance for new coalitions

Local chapters building belonging

Chapters transform campuses into sites of mutual aid, advocacy training, and peer-led support.

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ASUW Passport Student Commission

Active
Objective

Create an official ASUW commission for Passport scholarship recipients.

Key milestones
  1. Draft commission charter and bylaws
  2. Secure endorsements from ASUW leaders, faculty stakeholder and campus departments.
  3. Petition for the formation of a commission including a unique election process among passport students.
  4. Hold elections for passport commissioners.