Basic Needs
At UCSF this weekly resource offers students access to fresh produce and healthy staples, free of charge, at both the Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses.
What is the Student Food Market?
This service offers students rides from campus to home or transit hubs, covering the first $10 of up to 15 rides per month.
What is Lyft?
This service offers innovative accommodation solutions to ensure equitable access to students with disabilities.
What is Student Disability Services (SDS)?
If you sign up for this service you will receive alerts via either text message, phone call or email.
and is only activated when there is an immediate threat to safety or health affecting the campus community.
What is WarnMe?
This department is committed to providing high-quality, culturally responsive, holistic mental health care and wellbeing services.
What is Student Mental Health and Wellbeing?
This resource at UCSF provides food relief supplies and toiletries to students, accessible with their UCSF ID seven days a week.
What is the Pantry?
This service provides transportation to and from the different UCSF campuses.
What is UCSF Shuttle Services?
This service helps students build study skills, improve test performance, and enhance academic success.
What is Learning Resource Services?
This community resource has over 200 groups at UCSF, covering a broad range of interests including educational, social, cultural, artistic, recreational, political, and spiritual focuses.
What are Registered Campus Organizations (RCO)?
This wellness service pass will get you outdoors from hiking, camping to water outings.
What is UCSF Rec Pass?
This service allows UCSF students to receive alerts on their cell phones about available free food after catered events on campus.
What is Food4Students text message?
This service is available 24/7 at Parnassus, Mission Bay, Laurel Heights, Mount Zion, Mission Center, and ZSFGH and will get you safely to your vehicle or around campus locations.
What is a Safety Escort?
This department offers programs, 1:1 career counseling, assistance with your cover letters and resume.
What is Career and Professional Development (CPD)?
This center is located at 500 Parnassus, where you can find: First Gen, Veterans, Student Involvement and Synapse.
What is the Student Success Center?
This UCSF Family Services resource offers pre-screened help for child care, pet care, elder care, housekeeping, and more.
What is Sittercity?
This government-funded food assistance program provides monthly electronic benefits for purchasing most foods at various markets and stores, with eligible students potentially receiving up to $291 per month.
What is CalFresh?
This resource provides unlimited travel on any service that uses Clipper (except historic San Francisco Cable Cars, parking, BayWheels and BikeLink).
What is the Student Transit pass or Clipper BayPass?
This academic resource offers study spaces, online databases, research guides, a makers lab and much more.
What is the UCSF Libraries?
Their programs aim to foster a sense of inclusion and belonging; you can find the Multicultural Resource Center, LGBT Resource Center, and Disability Access and Inclusion.
What are the UCSF Resource Centers?
This wellness resource offers high-quality, affordable and convenient health insurance at UC Medical Centers.
What is UCSHIP (UCSF Student Health Insurance Plan)?