{"id":5142,"date":"2021-12-03T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/money\/?page_id=5142"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:26:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:26:46","slug":"designing-and-implementing-an-emergency-savings-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/designing-and-implementing-an-emergency-savings-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing and Implementing an Emergency Savings Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A toolkit for higher education practitioners&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Student Money Management Office developed a toolkit to help guide our higher education colleagues in implementing an emergency savings program. The toolkit is based off our experience piloting and then expanding the <a href=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/rainyday\/\">Rainy Day Savings Program<\/a>, an emergency savings program implemented at Austin Community College in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>We are happy to provide guidance to any higher education institution interested in exploring the idea of implementing programming to prepare students for the inevitable financial emergency that <del>might<\/del> will happen at some point during their academic journey. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong>: Karen Serna, Director, Student Money Management Office, karen.serna@austincc.edu <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/xLZ7pOVjCjUL6\/\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#00a08f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View toolkit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1UT8OrsphmyYIFafqNXUsiJtNkPcf1XRWEeVetyHMB28\/edit?usp=sharing\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#00a08f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Printable version of toolkit<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/01\/RainyDaySavings_LogoNew-300x263.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/01\/RainyDaySavings_LogoNew-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/01\/RainyDaySavings_LogoNew-1024x898.png 1024w, https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/01\/RainyDaySavings_LogoNew-768x673.png 768w, https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/01\/RainyDaySavings_LogoNew-1536x1347.png 1536w, https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/01\/RainyDaySavings_LogoNew-2048x1795.png 2048w, https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/01\/RainyDaySavings_LogoNew-150x132.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A toolkit for higher education practitioners&nbsp; The Student Money Management Office developed a toolkit to help guide our higher education colleagues in implementing an emergency savings program. The toolkit is based off our experience piloting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/designing-and-implementing-an-emergency-savings-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}