Core Resources
Crisis Assistance & Resource Education Support (CARES)
If you are experiencing challenges with food, housing, financial or other unique circumstances
that are impacting your education, help is just a phone call (916-278-5138) or email (cares@csus.edu) away. The CARES office
provides case management support for any enrolled student.
Learn more about your options and resources here: www.csus.edu/student-affairs/crisis-assistance-resource-education-support
Basic Needs Support
The ASI Food Pantry provides food and basic necessities to Sac State students in need at no cost. You just need to present a valid student OneCard.
You can also utilize the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS). In fact, SFBFS offers more than just food. From clothing for a newborn baby or a teenager heading out on a job interview, to Immigration Legal Services or English as a Second Language classes, and more, SFBFS is proud to offer support to the people of Sacramento County in a variety of different ways.
Learn more here:
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Safety Escort
The Hornet Safety Escort Program can be utilized by calling 916-278-7260, or you can contact Sac State police at 916-278-6000 for an escort when on campus at night.
If you are in immediate danger or need immediate assistance, please call 9-1-1 or, if you are on campus, campus police at 916-278-6000.
Sexual Misconduct
If you or someone you know has experienced any type of sexual violence (including harassment, assault, dating or domestic violence, or stalking), there are many confidential and non-confidential resources available on campus. So you know, the University requires faculty and staff to report any personal disclosures of sexual misconduct
including rape, dating/domestic violence and stalking to the Title IX Coordinator. Students who do not wish to report their experience to me or the Title IX Coordinator may speak to someone confidentially
by contacting Student Health and Counseling Services in The WELL at (916) 278-6461. You can also contact WEAVE, Inc. Sacramento, which provides confidential support 24 hours a day at (916) 920-2952.
Peer Counselors are also available for you to speak confidentially about anything and everything. You can book an appointment online.
If you are in immediate danger or need immediate assistance, please call 9-1-1 or, if you are on campus, campus police at 916-278-6000. If it is after hours or the weekend and you need immediate advocacy, please call WEAVE’s 24-hour hotline at 916-920-2952.
Learn more here: www.csus.edu/student-life/health-counseling/sexual-violence-support
Student Health and Counseling Services
Your physical and mental health are important to your success as a college student. Student
Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) in The WELL offers medical, counseling, and wellness
services to help you get and stay healthy during your time at Sac State. SHCS offers: Primary
Care medical services, including sexual and reproductive healthcare, transgender care, and
immunizations; urgent care for acute illness, injuries, and urgent counseling needs; pharmacy
for prescriptions and over-the-counter products; mental health counseling, including individual
sessions, group counseling, support groups, mindfulness training, and peer counseling; athletic
training for sports injury rehabilitation; wellness services, including nutrition counseling, peerled
health education and wellness workshops, and free safer sex supplies; violence and sexual
assault support services. Most services are covered by the Health Services fee and available at
no additional cost.
Confidential counseling services are available for Sacramento State students. Counselors are located on the second floor of the WELL. Appointments can be made 8:00am–5:00pm, Monday–Friday. Call 916-278-6461 or go here shc-pncweb.saclink.csus.edu/ to make an appointment.
If you are immediate crisis, please call 9-1-1 or the Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
Learn more here: www.csus.edu/student-life/health-counseling
Disability Access Center (DAC)
Sacramento State is committed to ensuring an accessible learning environment where course or instructional content are usable by all students and faculty. If you believe that you require disability-related academic adjustments for this class (including pregnancy-related disabilities), please immediately contact the Disability Access Center (DAC) to discuss eligibility. A current accommodation letter from DAC is required before any modifications, above and beyond what is otherwise available for all other students in this class will be provided. Please be advised that disability-related academic adjustments are not retroactive. The DAC is located on the first floor of Lassen Hall in room 1008. Phone is 916-278-6955 and e-mail is dac@csus.edu.
For a complete listing of services and current business hours visit www.csus.edu/student-affairs/centers-programs/disability-access-center/
Laptop Checkout Program & Software Catalog
The Laptop Checkout program provides Sac State students, faculty, and staff with both short-term and long-term checkout of laptops. For long-term checkouts, students should ask a Faculty or Staff member (such as an instructor) to submit a long-term laptop checkout request on your behalf to servicedesk@csus.edu.
Students, faculty, and staff also have access to a variety of computer software through the Software & Tools Catalog.
Learn more here:
Student Support Centers & Programs
Some of Sacramento State’s many student support centers and programs are listed below. Additional centers and programs can be found here: www.csus.edu/student-affairs/centers-programs
- Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Center
The APIDA Center promotes and affirms the experiences of students who identify as part of the Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi diaspora. The Center educates and engages with students to foster holistic, academic, and personal development to raise cultural awareness and advocacy needs.
- College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP)
CAMP is a federally funded program designed to help students from migrant and seasonal farmworker backgrounds succeed at Sacramento State.
- DEGREES Project
The Dedicated to Educating, Graduating, and Retaining Educational Equity Students (DEGREES) Project seeks to provide enhanced services to students with a special focus on underrepresented students to make timely progress to their degrees.
- Dreamer Resource Center (DRC)
The DRC works to make the dream of a college degree a reality for undocumented students and students with mixed-status families at Sacramento State. The goal of the center is to help students overcome the unique challenges that get in the way of achieving academic, personal and professional excellence.
- Education Opportunity Program (EOP)
EOP serves California residents from low-income households. EOP students are individuals who have the potential to succeed at Sacramento State, but have not been able to realize their goal for a higher education because of economic and/or educational background.
- Faculty Student Mentor Program (FSMP)
The Faculty Student Mentor Program is designed to offer academic and personal support to students from traditionally low-income communities.
- First Generation Institute (FGI)
FGI is an innovative and student-centered program designed to celebrate and promote the retention of and completion rates advancing first-generation college student success while ensuring first-generation experiences are woven into the culture and climate of the university. The institute is housed within the Center for First-Generation Student Initiatives: www.csus.edu/student-affairs/centers-programs/first-generation-students
- Full Circle Project (FCP)
The Full Circle Project aims to assist Asian American and Pacific Islander students throughout their entire college careers and provide ample opportunities to engage in service both on and off-campus to enhance their university experience.
- Guardian Scholars Program (GSP)
The Guardian Scholars Program is designed to help support former foster youth continue to strive and increase the number of college graduates. When you become a part of the Guardian Scholars Program, you will have access to academic advising, career advising, professional mentoring, priority registration, emergency funding, internship opportunities, and community building. Being a part of the guardian scholars means more than just resources, you are part of a family.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Center
The MLK Center is a central hub for the exploration of African American heritage and culture. The overall Center is designed to foster an ethos of success that permeates the scholarly experience, the community and the world by setting a tone of change and lifelong improvement that inspires and fulfills the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Multi-Cultural Center
The Multi-Cultural Center supports the needs of diverse communities by providing educational programs and a welcoming space that helps students learn about themselves and others. By collaborating with campus and community partners to co-create diversity and social justice initiatives, the center responds to student needs, fosters social awareness and cultural understanding, and builds bridges between diverse communities.
- Native Scholars & Transition Program (NSTP)
The program includes supporting and guiding students through the admission process, transitional student support through summer programming, learning community offerings for Native students at both the upper division and lower division levels. The Native scholar experience is enriched by cultural programming, college motivation days, college and community resource fairs, program celebrations, and social and student support gatherings.
- Peer Academic Resource Center (PARC)
PARC’s mission is to promote the scholastic achievements of students through enriched and supportive peer-learning opportunities that aid students along the pathway to degree attainment. PARC utilizes a relatively untapped resource at the University, the talented and knowledgeable students who serve as SI Leaders, Peer Advisors and Peer Tutors. Our motto embodies who we are as a Center: Successful students promoting student success!
- PRIDE Center
The PRIDE Center provides students looking for a connection to campus with programs and events, access to resources on campus and in the community, a welcoming hangout space, and opportunities for education about LGBTQIA communities and the intersections of many identities and experiences.
- Project HMONG
Project HMONG’s purpose is to build a positive and supportive community of mentors and peers through mentoring and networking with support, guidance, and encouragement while promoting positive character development.
- Serna Center
The mission of the Serna Center is to promote, foster, and enhance leadership, empowerment, self-advocacy and civic engagement among Chicanxs/Latinxs students, but also, students from other under-represented backgrounds at Sacramento State.
- Student Athlete Resource Center
The Student Athlete Resource Center center staff help student-athletes navigate many campus procedures and policies, understand NCAA rules and eligibility requirements, and provide services that place student welfare and the development of the whole student as a top priority.
- U-Mentor
“U” Mentor is a program that aims to promote student success through the avenue of mentorship. Once matched, students are able to actively communicate with their mentors and receive assistance with academic advising, career advising, and overall achievement of success.
- Veterans Success Center (VSC)
The Veterans Success Center aids students in accessing their VA Education benefits, the timely certifying of those benefits, and completing the admission application process. The VSC also helps students find veteran-related resources, provides leadership opportunities, peer-to-peer mentorship, and support in transitioning into a meaningful career.
- Women’s Resource Center (WRC)
The WRC cultivates a safe space where students can be empowered and affirmed. The center strives to provide the campus with programs that offer a platform for discussions with a feminist lens and a focus on current gender identity issues. The WRC seeks to empower students by providing programs and workshops to challenge sexism, socialized gender roles, and the patriarch.
Additional Academic Support Centers
Academic Advising Center
The Academic Advising Center engages students in a developmental process that helps them clarify and implement individual educational plans consistent with their skills, interests, and values.
Schedule an appointment or learn more here: www.csus.edu/student-life/academic-advising
First Year Experience
The FYE Program works to improve retention and graduation rates of native students. It offers First Year Seminars and also provides a physical FYE Space to support all first year college students (with space to study, do group projects, or connect with a mentor).
More info here: www.csus.edu/undergraduate-studies/first-year-experience/
Reading & Writing Center
The Reading and Writing Center is where students can receive assistance in writing, revising and editing their own work. Support is offered both synchronously as well as asynchronously.
Schedule an appointment or learn more here: www.csus.edu/undergraduate-studies/writing-program/reading-writing-center.html
Division of Inclusive Excellence
The Division of Inclusive Excellence is responsible for ensuring that Sacramento State’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion is both evident throughout our University and communicated to the larger Sacramento community.
Learn more about how the Division of Inclusive Excellence engages our campus and supports our students, faculty, and staff here: www.csus.edu/diversity-inclusion/division-inclusive-excellence
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joshua.wiscons@csus.edu. Last Update: August 18, 2023.