0:02 So, TRIO Student Support Services at PFW is one of the eight federally funded TRIO programs through the Department of Education. Student Support Services
0:11 primarily works with students who are first generation college students from low-income backgrounds, have a disability or a mirage of those things.
0:20 And basically our overall goal and mission is to make sure that those students while on PFW's campus have a resource and support network of services
0:28 that they can connect with through our campus to graduate with their bachelor's degree. It's really important to me and to the others in our staff who primarily are all first generation college
0:37 students to give back to students because we understand what it's like to be in their shoes. It's really, really exciting to see a student come in
0:44 freshman year and see them be curious and have a lot of questions, maybe some imposttor syndrome, and see them evolve into a person who is confident, who is
0:53 involved on campus, and sets off a new trajectory for people in their family that come after them to follow.