By Sydney Goitia-Doran, The Seattle Medium

King County has awarded Bellevue College a $1.2 million grant to launch a pilot program supporting underserved student veterans. Funded through the Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy, the program is designed to help veterans who are low-income, living with disabilities, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, homeless, or previously incarcerated.

Josh Kienlen, director of Veteran Services at Bellevue College, said the program fills a critical gap for veterans and their families who often face barriers to education.

“The grant allows us to help students who generally we have a hard time helping, at least with specific veteran benefits…” Kienlen said. “We have a decent number that have come across over the years that just had no other options, so this actually he

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