Lansing Community College

Pregnancy and parenting don't have to mean the end of your education, dreams, or goals.
We're here to connect you with the resources needed to support and empower you to succeed.

  • Option Line: Free confidential help via text, online chat, or phone.
  • Shared Pregnancy: Free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, confidential counseling, abortion information, parenting support, community resources, and more. 
  • Pregnancy Services: Free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, confidential counseling, abortion information, parenting support, community resources, and more.
  • Bethany Christian services: Wondering what your options are? This organization will walk you through your pregnancy options, give you free counseling and offer many resources including financial assistance.
  • Abortion Pill Reversal: If you change your mind after a medical abortion, you can receive help.
  • LCC Off-Campus Housing: This resource includes off-campus housing options, listings and available roommates.
  • Hannah’s House: Providing free shelter to expectant mothers in Lansing.
  • Eastside Community Action Center HOP Program: This program can help you to identify barriers to home ownership and provide you with the help you need to become a homeowner. They also rent houses in the Lansing area.
  • U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development: Find rental assistance programs for low-income families.
  • Home Ownership Services: If you need help paying for energy and weatherization costs, you may be able to get help from state programs that use federal money to assist low-income families with energy costs. 
  • Co-Abode: Co-Abode connects single mothers with similar interests to share a home, allowing their families to live in safer areas and diminish the financial burden of rent.
  • LCC Early Learning Children’s Community: Offers childcare payment options and assistance.
  • Child Care Assistance: Resources to find quality child care and payment assistance if you cannot afford child care. 
  • Great Start Readiness Program: The Lansing School District offers FREE Preschool Programs designed to prepare children for kindergarten. Classes are offered Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday throughout the school year, at various locations throughout the Lansing School District.
  • Project Rachel: Find hope and healing through confidential phone lines, individual counseling, support groups, and retreats. 
  • Pregnancy Services: Do you need help after an abortion? Pregnancy Services provides abortion recovery help and support at no cost to you.
  • LCC Grants: This resource provides information for their Childcare Grant and Special Populations Grant.
  • Michigan Student Aid: Numerous programs that are available to provide financial assistance for postsecondary education depending on eligibility. 
  • Michigan Tuition Grant: This program is available for undergraduate students in financial need for their postsecondary tuition. 
  • Federal Student Aid: If you are a pregnant or parenting student, update your FAFSA information in order to receive more financial aid. 
  • Federal Pell Grant: This is a federal grant available for students that demonstrate financial need. Your FAFSA application will be reviewed to see if you qualify. 
  • The Little Bundle Supermom Scholarship: This scholarship was created to help single moms fund their education. Current high school seniors, undergrad, and graduate students are all eligible to apply. Awards are $2,000 each. 
  • Soroptimist Live Your Dream Award: Applicants must be the primary financial support system for themselves and at least one other dependent. They must be enrolled in a vocational/skills training program or pursuing their first undergraduate degree. Funding runs from $1,000 at the club level to $10,000 at the international level. 
  • Custody X Change Single Parent Scholarship:  Applicants must have primary custody of at least one child under the age of 18. Awards are for $1,000 each. 
  • Kopfler & Hermann Overcoming Adversity Scholarship:  Though this scholarship is not directed at single parents, it asks all applicants to submit a 500-1,000 word essay describing a time that they overcame adversity. Applicants can be pursuing an undergraduate or graduate level degree. The award is $1,000. 
  • Kickass Single Mom Stimulus Grant: This grant can be used for anything, and the application process only takes a few minutes! The only qualification is that the applicant must be a single mother. Each award is $500.
  • Bernal-Mora & Nickolaou Annual Single Parent Scholarship: This scholarship is open to both single mothers and single fathers. The award is $1,000. 
  • Women’s Independence Scholarship Program (WISP): This scholarship is for women who are survivors of intimate partner violence. The average award is about $2,000 per semester. 
  • Patsy Takemoto Mink Foundation: This organization provides funding to low income mothers who are pursuing education beyond high school. The foundation will provide grants of up to $5,000 each.
  • Scholarships4Moms:  This organization has awarded over one million dollars in scholarships to mothers seeking higher education. 
  • P.E.O. Sisterhood: Looking for grants, scholarships, or loans? P.E.O. Sisterhood has the resources you are looking for and has helped countless women achieve their educational goals.
  • Title IX at LCC: Provides an overview of student rights and an outline of the student complaint process if rights have been violated.
  • Alliance Defending Freedom: ADF provides free legal support to help you understand your rights as a student.
  • Title IX Benefits: Learn about your rights as a pregnant or parenting student in regards to class attendance, homework, activities, and more. 
  • Pregnant Scholar: Learn about your rights as a pregnant or parenting student. This resource covers accommodations, leaves & absences, breastfeeding, and working on campus. 
  • Eastside Community Action Center: Provides food at the end of each month if you are running low, as well as a free lunch held at their center each week. Their clothing closet provides free clothes to men, women and children.
  • Greater Lansing Food bank: Providing emergency food to local families in need.
  • Learn & Earn: This program through Shared Pregnancy allows parents to take classes and earn credits to purchase diapers, clothing, and baby equipment. 
  • Food Assistance Program: Temporary food assistance for eligible low-income families and individuals
  • WIC: This program provides food assistance, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and health care referrals for pregnant and parenting women & their children
  • Cash Assistance: Temporary cash assistance is available for pregnant women and low-income families with children 
  • MIBridges: Create an account here to see what other assistance you are eligible for in Michigan. There are multiple assistance programs available for pregnant and parenting women. 
  • Child Support: Set up a child support case so that you can receive assistanc
  • Lansing Expectant Mothers Organization: Partnering with local organizations like Sparrow Hospital, this nonprofit provides classes, resources, and support to pregnant and parenting women in Lansing.
  • LCC Employment Resources: Includes available positions in various job types on and off campus, as well as resources for career preparation.
  • Single Moms: This website is full of resources for single mothers on housing, parenting, education, relationships and more. 
  • Abortion Pill Reversal: If you change your mind after a medical abortion, you can receive help.

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