Parenting Students

Texas Woman’s University is a campus with a heart, and we support our pregnant and parenting Pioneers. We understand that raising children while juggling the demands of a college education often complicates matters for families, but our resources provide pregnant and parenting students with encouragement and assistance. According to TheBestColleges.org TWU ranks No. 4 in its listing of top colleges for single parents.

We even have a dedicated student retention and support specialist (SRSS) who can support your need for adjustments and accommodations in your courses, and our associate director for the CARE Office serves as our pregnant and parenting student liaison to help you access campus and community resources related to caregiving responsibilities. In these roles, our SRSS and our Student Parent Liaison assist you, along with the Title IX office, in assuring you have full access to the resources, support and accommodations you may need.

If you are a currently registered Pioneer and are the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18 or you are currently pregnant (regardless of sex or gender identity) and need access to campus resources for support or accommodations, please complete our accommodation form. This form allows Texas Woman’s University to note your status as a pregnant or parenting student and will help us provide you with resources, services and support to make your journey at TWU a little easier.

If you have any questions, please contact:

For accommodations:
Kendal Lou Dickson
Student Retention and Support Specialist
kdickson2@twu.edu
940-898-3601

For parenting resources:
Meredith Maddox, Student Parent Liaison
Associate Director for CARE
mmaddox@twu.edu
940-898-2789

Parenting Resources

Alexandra Mack stands in pantry with food on shelves behind her

If you are a TWU student struggling with the cost of food for you and your family, TWU has resources that can help you, and you may be eligible for free food.

The CARE office facilitates monthly SNAP consultations. SNAP is a federal food assistance program that provides nutritional assistance to qualifying college students. Additionally, the office partners with the Tarrant Area Food Bank to bring a mobile food truck to the Denton campus in the fall and spring semesters, runs the on-campus food pantry called Minerva's Market and maintains a list of other resources.

Connect with the CARE office

Students sitting around a fire ring in the woods next to Lowry Woods Apartments.

The Clubhouse, located in the Lowry Woods Community Center, is an affordable enrichment program that serves school-age children between 5 and 12 years old for TWU student parents. Priority placement deadlines are July 15 for fall and March 15 for summer. The Clubhouse follows the Denton ISD school schedule and is unavailable when the TWU campus is closed. Fall and spring hours are 3-6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Summer hours are 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Transportation, extended hours and special days are also available.

Let us help you with your after-school childcare needs!

Enroll your child in The Clubhouse

Lowry Woods, our on-campus apartments, provides convenient, affordable, family-friendly living that aligns with your educational goals. Unfurnished apartment styles include two- and three-bedroom options with appliances.

Students enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester (fall and spring), and any legally married couple (as recognized in the State of Texas), with or without child(ren), or a single parent who has legal custody of a child(ren) are eligible for family housing may apply to live in family housing. Only immediate family members (husband, wife, children) may occupy the apartment, and they must reside together for the duration of the contract.

Learn about on-campus family housing

Sometimes connecting with other student parents can be your best resource! Sponsored by our CARE office, TWU SPARK (Student Pioneers Also Raising Kids) is a great way to meet others and exchange ideas about parenting, childcare, schools and so much more!

Find the SPARK to your experience

Proud to be Designated Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Silver Worksite certificate from texasmotherfriendly.org

TWU is a breastfeeding-friendly community committed to providing a comfortable, safe, and supportive environment for mothers and lactating parents to express milk and breastfeed infants. Coordinated by our CARE office, the university offers lactation rooms, educational information and lactation resources for students, employees and campus visitors.

Access lactation resources

Student Health Services provides women with a comfortable environment where they feel at ease and respected and can ask questions of a sensitive or uncomfortable nature. Annual female health maintenance exams and other routine gynecological exams are available. Female health maintenance exams may include breast exams, pap smears, pregnancy testing and STI screening.

Other services include birth control counseling and other prescription refills, evaluation and treatment of menstrual concerns and evaluation and treatment of common gynecological conditions and other reproductive health concerns, such as vaginal infections. The university does not offer obstetrical care but limited minor illness care for pregnant students is available.

See our full list of health services

Page last updated 10:08 AM, April 25, 2024