AUSTIN, Texas — College Hub teamed up with the Mexican Consulate to help inform families and encourage students to pursue higher education Saturday.

College Hub is a program that helps students who face barriers on their pathway to higher education.

Applying for college can be a stressful time for students and their parents, combined with stress, a language barrier and inexperience, it can get overwhelming.

"Our goal is to reach students all over Austin," Brianna McDonough with College Hub said. "We answer everything from: how to apply to college, where you should apply to college, how to get financial aid for college.”

This is the second year that College Hub has hosted a college fair at the Mexican Consulate.

"Today in K-12, half of all students in Texas are Latino origin," Consul General Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez says this fair reaches out to communities that might not feel comfortable asking universities for help or don't have the resources.

"That setting might be, to some extent, intimidating. It might not be easy to navigate. In the Mexican, Latino-immigrant community, a significant number of students that get into college are first-generation college students, so their parents do not have that experience and many of them in the immigrant community are undocumented," he added.

At the consulate, Gutierrez says families have a safe space and can get information in their native tongue.

"The future of the Texas workforce depends on Texas' ability to prepare that generation," Gutierrez said. "We are helping society as a whole."