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The Pittsburgh Scholar House is launching the Wayfinders Program, an innovative approach to connecting highly motivated single parents to transformative post-secondary educational opportunities in the region.

About the Wayfinders Program

The Pittsburgh Scholar House is seeking to recruit 20 families into its first Wayfinders cohort slated to begin in January 2023. The curriculum will focus on providing parenting scholars with economic empowerment, two-generational family engagement, early learning outcomes for their children, and standards of academic excellence as they pursue a degree.

Cohort participants are provided with the guidance and support needed to enroll in a two or four-year degree program, finish a degree program in which they are currently enrolled, or receive specialized workforce training for in-demand job skills. The program is available to participants at no cost.

Participants who successfully enroll into a degree program at the end of the six-month engagement period will be supported with potential scholarship opportunities, academic coaching, professional mentorship, transportation and child care access, and other supports designed to cultivate social capital and foster economic mobility through the successful completion of their degree program.

Details

The deadline to apply for the cohort is Friday, November 18, 2022. Details for the program are included in the following links:

• Program Overview

• Application

• Register for Virtual Information Session (October 27, 2022)

• PSH Wayfinders Program FAQ sheet