Equity/Special Populations Services
This office serves single parents, displaced homemakers and students who are enrolled in nontraditional programs. The program offers customized workshops and seminars providing career testing and exploration, academic preparation, and review, as well as workshops and seminars that address life issues such as stress management, parenting skills, self-esteem improvement, and job readiness training.
This program also provides tangible support services such as a lending library that allows students to borrow text books on a semester basis, and MARTA transportation assistance. While the program specifically focuses on the needs of single parents and nontraditional students, all workshops and seminars are open to all students.
A single parent is defined as one who is legally unmarried or legally separated from a spouse, who has full or partial custody of at least one minor child and who is in need of employment or career training.
A displaced homemaker is a parent who has been performing unpaid labor in the home, who has difficulty in securing employment, and who has been dependent upon the income of another but can no longer depend on that income.
A nontraditional student would be any male or female who is enrolled in a program of study at a technical college where the opposite gender accounts for more than 70%, such as a male student enrolled in Health and Professional Services or a female student in Automotive Technology.
For additional information, please contact Tyreece Echols, 404-297-9522, extension 1280 or echolst@gptc.edu.