Financial Assistance For Students

The following financial assistance programs are offered to student parents on the UW Madison campus.

Please note that CCTAP is the primary financial aid program for student parents' child care costs. Student parents should always apply first for CCTAP.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our office about which fund suits your needs.

Child Care Tuition Assistance Program (CCTAP)

The Child Care Tuition Assistance Program (CCTAP) financially assists low-income student parents (enrolled at University of Wisconsin-Madison) with children ages birth to 12 years to help purchase quality, regulated child care while they are studying or working outside their homes.

Once enrolled in CCTAP (a complete and accepted application), student families are eligible to utilize Kids-Kare, providing sick, evening and back-up child care services at Chicken Soup / Little Chicks Learning Academy. If interested in these services, complete the Kids-Kare Application and submit it to Chicken Soup. Chicken Soup will confirm you CCTAP status prior to care provision. (Additional forms will then need to be filled out before service can be provided.)

Access to Infants and Mothers (AIM)

AIM is a federally funded program that helps provide high quality child care and tuition assistance to UW-Madison undergraduate student parents (both mothers and fathers) who receive, or are eligible, for Pell Grants, and who are enrolled at the University full-time.

AIM students are also eligible for Kids-Kare services. Please complete the application as noted in the CCTAP section.

Privately Funded Student Child Care Scholarship Grants

Discretionary child care grants are available to student families who experience emergency or family related issues that leave them unable to cover the costs of their regulated child care.

Single Parent Scholarship Program

The Adult and Student Services Center (ASSC) has scholarships for SINGLE PARENTS.
Web site: www.dcs.wisc.edu/services/finanserv/scholarships/denney.htm.
E-mail: assc@dcs.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-6960

Student Financial Services

The Office of Student Financial Services has financial assistance available to students:
Web site: http://www.finaid.wisc.edu
E-mail: finaid@das.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-3060.

Please refer to Non-UW Madison Financial Assistance for more options.