Basic Needs Support
Automated basic needs support for students.
Customizable technology that is built to streamline student support services to reduce staff burden.

Outreach
Meet your students where they are.
Meet your students where they are.
  • Share your organization’s customizable landing page with your target students.
  • Students can access the screening asynchronously, 24/7 from any device with Internet access.
  • Increase awareness of existing community, state, school & federal resources that can assist students with basic needs insecurities.
Intake
Reduce barriers that prevent students from connecting to resources
Reduce barriers that prevent students from connecting to resources
  • Better serve your students’ basic needs with a student-informed definition of the challenges they face.
  • Our Screening removes repetitive steps & rephrases complex questions into user-friendly language. 
  • BestFit automates assessment to determine eligibility for federal benefits
  • Our 5-minute screening assesses eligibility for 6 federal benefits:
    • SNAP, CAPS, TANF, WIC, Medicaid, LIHEAP
Reduce barriers that prevent students from connecting to resources
Reduce barriers that prevent students from connecting to resources
  • Better serve your students’ basic needs with a student-informed definition of the challenges they face.
  • Our Screening removes repetitive steps & rephrases complex questions into user-friendly language. 
  • BestFit automates assessment to determine eligibility for federal benefits
  • Our 5-minute screening assesses eligibility for 6 federal benefits:
    • SNAP, CAPS, TANF, WIC, Medicaid, LIHEAP
Staff Capacity
Explore sustainable staffing models that can scale to meet students’ growing demand.
Explore sustainable staffing models that can scale to meet students’ growing demand.
  • As students complete our Screening, your staff can access analytics, view daily insights, & track engagement within the dashboard.
  • Staff can see eligibility results to help coordinate support if the user opts in to share their results.
  • BestFit sends follow-up communications to students, as they begin to access resources.
BestFit supports students with a range of identities & responsibilities
19%
identify as LGBTQIA+
25
avg. age of all of our students
86%
are current/former PELL recipients
27%
are working while in school
24%
are single parents
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