UCI Specific Programs And Resources
TAO (Therapy Assistance Online) Mobile App
The UCI Student Health Center is now offering a FREE subscription to TAO (Therapy Assistance Online), a mobile-friendly app that helps you conquer your day-to-day struggles around general stressors like anxiety, depression, or relationships. Sign up for FREE today by using your UCI email address. If you need extra help setting up the app, contact the UCI Counseling Center at 949-824-6457.
Therapy pathways include:
- Let Go and Be Well (ACT for general well-being and resilience)
- Improving Your Mood (behavioral activation for depression)
- Leave Your Blues Behind (CBT for depression)
- Evaluating My Alcohol & Drug Use
- Interpersonal Relationship and Communication
- Pain Management
- Calming Your Worry – Student (CBT for stress and anxiety)
Due to limited food availability, the UCI FRESH Basic Needs Hub student food pantry had to make some temporary changes and implement limits on food available. Please visit their website for updated hours before visiting. Additionally, the FRESH Basic Needs Hub must strictly enforce its once-per-week visit limit at this time. The phone number for the Basic Needs Hub is (949) 473-2806 and the email address is fresh@uci.edu.
CalFresh Application Assistance via Zoom
FRESH is offering CalFresh application assistance via Zoom. We will have one of our staff guide you through the CalFresh application remotely while you complete it on your own through the feature of screen sharing. Book your appointment here and visit GetCalFresh for more information.
UCI Health Offers Recipes to Make with Kids
Healthy meals for kids need not skimp on flavor. Moreover, when children participate in the cooking, too, you are engaging in family bonding.
Mental Health Assistance for Students
The Center for Student Wellness & Health Promotion (CSWHP) is available to help students with the various challenges they may face while quarantining, including navigating challenging relationships, managing stress, emotional eating and nutrition, and substance abuse. Students can contact the center to set up a phone, email or Zoom consultation.
UCI Counseling Center
The UCI Counseling Center is open and offers all services remotely. The center offers individual counseling services, initial assessments, urgent care, single-session appointments, workshops, and drop-in groups. To make an appointment or learn more, call 949-824-6457 and speak with a live staff member. There are also online videos, live social media posts, and web-based resources.
Virtual drop-in groups and workshops
Group sessions can be especially beneficial for students who learn from others or feel isolated, depressed, or anxious, or who are concerned about how they relate to other people. Group therapy services offer an opportunity for you to meet others who have similar experiences and who also want to pursue personal growth.
There is a diverse range of topics covered, including a Graduate Student Therapy Group where all UCI graduate students are invited to share the challenges of being a graduate student and explore ways to balance school & personal life, navigate relationships with peers and advisors, combat imposter syndrome, decrease anxiety, and increase social supports. This virtual hour is designed to be psychoeducational, skill-based, and supportive in nature.
For the full list of virtual drop-in groups and workshops schedule (including Zoom links), click here.
For life threatening emergencies
- Please Call 911
- Call UCI Campus Police at (949) 824-5223, or
- Go to your nearest Emergency Room
For urgent concerns when the Counseling Center is closed on Campus/National Holidays or weekends
- Call (949) 824-6457 and Select option 2 to speak with a counselor by phone.
- Call National Suicide Prevention Line at 1-800-273-8255, or
- Text “Home” to 741741 to reach the Crisis Text Line
Tips for Parents from UCI Health
The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also offer useful tips for one-on-one parenting to help tackle the disruption of routines and the boredom of being housebound. Read the blog, School’s out for COVID-19 from UCI Health.
Cross Cultural Center
The Cross Cultural Center provide many students a home away from home. And for many, it remains a safe space from which students may launch their involvement in a myriad of campus programs and leadership opportunities. Visit their webpage for more resources.
Center for Black Cultures, Resources And Research
The mission of the Center for Black Cultures, Resources, and Research (CBCRR) is to provide a just, safe, vibrant, inclusive, culturally supportive, and socio-ecologically sustainable space – a home away from home – where Black students can thrive and reach for their highest potential. Our focus is on health, wellness, vitality, and academic success. Check out their webpage for more resources.
Division of Career Pathways
The Division of Career Pathways educates and engages UCI students and alumni to realize their career potential. We do this by:
- Coordinating with the campus community in the professional development of students.
- Providing students and alumni with tools and support to attain their career goals.
- Delivering exceptional customer service to the employer community while recognizing individual recruiting needs.
Visit their webpage for resources and workshops.
Center for Student Wellness and Health Promotion
The Center for Student Wellness and Health promotion empowers students to make informed decisions that support their individual health, as well as a healthy campus environment, in order to uphold the academic mission of the University. Visit their webpage for programs and resources.
Womxn’s Center for Success
Dream Center
The UCI DREAM Center stands with and serves those impacted by immigration policy through advancing systemic change, deconstructing oppressive policies, and fostering community. We work towards personal growth, collective healing, and visible change.
LGBTQ+ Resource Center
The UCI Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center provides a wide range of education and advocacy services supporting intersectional identity development. We foster community, wellness, an open and inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, transgender, queer, asexual, ally, and questioning students, faculty, staff, and the larger campus community. We strive to develop an atmosphere of acceptance and wellbeing in which the campus community can support the academic mission of the university.
CARE
The UCI CARE Office provides free and confidential support services to members of the UCI community impacted by sexual assault, relationship abuse, family violence and/or stalking. UCI CARE aims to end these forms of power-based personal violence by engaging the campus community in education, programming, and transformative action. Visit their webpage for more information.
Latinx Resource Center
The Latinx Resource Center (LRC) was founded in 2019 to raise awareness of social, political, economic, historical and cultural realities of the Chicanx/Latinx communities. We accomplish this mission by offering resources, programs, and a space where cultura, arte and academia are interconnected. Our vision is that these efforts will broaden access, increase retention and ensure a clear pathway to graduation through the empowerment of Chicanx and Latinx students.
International Center
The International Center advances and facilitates international engagement at UCI to enhance the academic and personal experience of the international community. The International Center staff is committed to serving campus constituents through advising, immigration services, programming, advocacy, and outreach. Visit their webpage for updated for resources and events.