Name
Hope in Practice: Embedding Basic Needs Across Civic and Campus Engagement
Date & Time
Monday, March 16, 2026, 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location Name
San Francisco
Session Type
Knowledge-to-Action Workshop
Description

Students are only able to thrive when their basic needs are met, but many campuses rely on stand-alone services that miss moments when they are most reachable. This workshop reframes basic needs as a whole-campus engagement strategy tied to higher education's public purpose. Drawing from our national work, we will share practical, low-lift models that advance civic and community engagement: equipping student-facing leaders for brief resource-navigation conversations and warm handoffs, embedding short eligibility screening links in course structures and in basic-needs syllabus statements, aligning Federal Work-Study roles for trained peer navigators, and weaving basic-needs content into dialogue series. Participants complete a guided planning sprint and leave with one integration plan, partner map, and quick-win indicators to track early traction.