Portland Community College
IL-65: Innovation A
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1.00 / 1.00 |
Stephania
Fregosi Sustainability Analyst Academic Affairs |
Name of the innovative outcome, program, or initiative:
Does the innovation represent a new, extraordinary, unique, ground-breaking, or uncommon outcome, program, or initiative that addresses a sustainability challenge and is not covered by an existing credit?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the innovation:
The Basic Needs, Sustainability & Leadership program strives to provide meaningful, action-oriented opportunities to advance the interconnected issues of basic needs support, including food and housing security and transportation access, legal aid and addressing the climate crisis to advance an equitable and sustainable community for our students. Students in this program work in
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PCC Legal Resource Center
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Food Justice
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Sustainability / Eco-social Justice
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Climate Justice
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Transportation Access
The BNSL Service model provides a peer to peer support model which centers student mutual aid. It’s made up of four teams: Basic Needs, Legal Aid, Eco Justice and Peer Navigators. These teams provide additional support like resource navigation, help with the Oregon Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), access to hygiene products, legal aid and upcycling. They also run programming and community programming like PCC’s free food markets, provide environmental justice programming and run resource fairs. Finally they hold resiliency and skill development hub hubs that uplift success skills including college navigation, cooking, finance, wellness and digital literacy.
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