{"id":143948,"date":"2021-06-21T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=143948"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:51:31","slug":"student-basic-needs-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/21\/student-basic-needs-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"58% of surveyed <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students hit with hunger, housing problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_21581\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AmPYXES61jw?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"58% of surveyed Â鶹´«Ã½students hit with hunger, housing problems\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>More than half of University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> students surveyed last year experienced some type of basic needs insecurity, according to a recent study. Basic needs include, but are not limited to, food and housing, clothing, childcare, mental health, financial resources and transportation. In 2020, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Basic Needs Committee partnered with the <a href=\"https:\/\/hope4college.com\/\">Hope Center for College, Community and Justice<\/a> to conduct a comprehensive basic needs assessment of the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> student body, and provided technical assistance in developing a Basic Needs Master Plan for the university.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>39&#37; of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students surveyed experienced food insecurity last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the results of the survey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>58&#37; experienced at least one form of basic needs insecurity<\/li>\n<li>39&#37; experienced food insecurity in the prior 30 days<\/li>\n<li>44&#37; experienced housing insecurity in the previous year<\/li>\n<li>14&#37; experienced homelessness in the previous year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Having two out of five students experience hunger during 2020, is extremely concerning,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>. &ldquo;Besides the obvious physical impacts, student hunger can affect mental health, academic performance and graduation rates. We are grateful to the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Basic Student Needs Committee and its members, who are already working hard to help address this issue. While we are fortunate to have one-time federal COVID-19 relief funds available on each of our ten campuses to assist students in need, it is clear that we need more sustainable strategies to help our students thrive as they learn moving forward.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<h2>Meeting students\u2019 needs<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143942\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/west-oahu-mikyla-hiilani-thomas-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Mikyla Hiilani Thomas working with vegetables\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-143942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/west-oahu-mikyla-hiilani-thomas-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/west-oahu-mikyla-hiilani-thomas-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/west-oahu-mikyla-hiilani-thomas-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/21\/student-battled-hunger-housing-insecurity\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> student Mikyla Hiilani Thomas battled hunger, housing insecurity<\/a>, June 21, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In March 2021, the committee launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/student-basic-needs\/\">Student Basic Needs website<\/a>, an online clearinghouse for both on-campus and city, state and federal basic needs resources. Students with a hawaii.edu email can also log in to use this <a href=\"http:\/\/uhstudentbasicneeds.auntbertha.com\">search engine<\/a> for more information and basic needs resources.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/01\/uh-students-basic-needs-web-resource\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> students have new web resource for basic needs<\/a>, March 1, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To encourage access to basic needs support throughout the summer, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Basic Needs Coordinator <strong>Rainbow <span aria-label=\"Ulii\">Uli&#699;i<\/span><\/strong> has been hosting a series of webinars on basic needs security for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students, faculty and staff. These webinars feature how to use the Student Basic Needs site and how to access basic needs support services year round. The next webinar is on Friday, July 16, 11&#8211;11:30 a.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/10\/help-with-food-housing-childcare-counseling\/\">See this <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News story for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Invitations to complete a questionnaire were sent by email to 48,133 students from the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System and 1,016 students participated, for an estimated response rate of 2.1&#37;. Despite the low response rate, these <abbr>UH<\/abbr> findings are consistent with <a href=\"https:\/\/hope4college.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2019_RealCollege_Survey_Report.pdf\">prior national studies (<small><abbr title=\"portable document format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/small>)<\/a> of student basic needs insecurity conducted over the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/student-basic-needs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2021\/06\/UH-System-2021-HOPE-Report.pdf\">full report on the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System (<small><abbr title=\"portable document format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/small>)<\/a> and reports for nine <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campuses are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/student-basic-needs\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Basic Needs website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> appreciates the support of many generous donors who have given in support of basic student needs over the years. If you are able to help, visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.uhfoundation.org\/browse?category=&#038;keyword=basic_needs\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation page<\/a> to donate to the campus or program of your choice.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Abe Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The assessment found that 39&#37; of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students surveyed experienced food insecurity last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,1416,951,61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-143948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-food","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143948"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143979,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143948\/revisions\/143979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}