Special Populations/Non-Traditional Programs

Coastal Pines Technical College provides support services for students who are in special population categories including:

  • Individual with disabilities (documentation will be requested) - a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities such as caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, or learning.
  • Single Parent- students who have the primary or joint custody for a dependent child. (Can be divorced, widowed, legally separated, never married, or a person who is single and pregnant.)
  • Out-of-workforce Individual – students who have been unemployed or underemployed to care for a home and/or family and for that reason have had difficulty in obtaining or upgrading employment.
  • Individual preparing for non-traditional field – students are enrolled in a program of study that will lead to an occupation that is dominated by persons of the opposite sex. (Example: a female in welding or drafting or a male in a healthcare program).
  • English Learner- students have a limited ability to write or understand English due to a language other than English as their primary language.
  • Individual from economically disadvantaged families- students who are currently homeless, a youth who is in, or have aged out of, the foster care system, receive Pell Grant or federal assistance, including Food Stamps and/or Medicaid, a youth with a parent who is on active duty armed forces.

For information or questions, please contact Student Activities/Special Populations Coordinator, specialservices@coastalpines.edu.