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Bruin Mental Health Advisory Committee
The Bruin Mental Health Advisory Committee (BMHAC), in conjunction with Counseling and Psychological Services Center (CAPS), works to advocate for UCLA students mental health and resilience services, policies, and practices on campus. BMHAC is chaired by the CAPS Student Intern(s) for the year and provides feedback to campus administrators, promotes campus mental health information and programs, and contributes to mental health and well-being initiatives through direct community service on campus.
Dashew Center for International Students & Scholars
UCLA is home to more than 12,000 international students and scholars. From the moment they arrive at UCLA, the Dashew Center functions as the central hub to provide international students, scholars, and their departments with visa services, resources, support and advocacy on campus. At the center of its mission, the Dashew Center aims to serve the entire UCLA community by promoting the values of creating global connection, international understanding and cultural sensitivity.
UCLA Residential Life
UCLA Residential Life creates safe, supportive, and inclusive living-learning communities that engage residents in the fostering of their academic success, personal growth, leadership development, and social responsibility. There are programs and partners that help make the Hill & all campus housing feel like home for our students.
Togetherall
Togetherall is a peer-to-peer mental health support community which is available online, 24/7, and is completely anonymous so you can express yourself freely and openly. Licensed and registered mental health practitioners, called Wall Guides, monitor the community to ensure the safety and anonymity of all members.
Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC)
USAC is the governing body of the Undergraduate Students Association (USA) whose membership is comprised of every UCLA undergraduate student. USA's programs offer an invaluable service to the campus and surrounding communities and provide an opportunity for thousands of students to participate in and benefit from these endeavors.
Community Programs Office (CPO)
The CPO strives to increase students from underserved communities' access to higher education, retention in the university, and graduation rates while also serving as a conscious effort in the community, working toward the empowerment of all people.
Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life
The Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life serves to enhance the growth and development of UCLA students through their membership in, or engagement with, the fraternity and sorority community. The Office aims to provide an integrative learning environment that fosters a sense of belonging for the individual student rooted in a shared commitment to their fraternal oath and our True Bruin Values: Respect, Accountability, Integrity, Service, and Excellence.
Black Bruin Resource Center (BBRC)
The mission of the UCLA BBRC is to uplift, support, and inspire the UCLA Black and African Diaspora Community. With the goal of cultivating community, family, and power, the UCLA BBRC serves as a space the community can call home. The center serves as an essential branch of support available to Black UCLA students, staff, and faculty at a departmental and institutional level.
Graduate Student Resource Center
The UCLA Graduate Student Resource Center (GSRC) is a resource, referral and information center for graduate and professional school students. They offer resources, services, workshops and programs to support graduate students on campus. The GSRC works with campus partners including the Graduate Student Association to organize the campus-wide Graduate Student Orientation (GSO) and Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week (GPSA).
Student Wellness Commission
The Student Wellness Commission is a branch of the Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC) and addresses holistic UCLA student health. It is the largest student health organization on campus with 12 committees and 500+ members. The committees organize and facilitate events, advocacy, outreach, and research targeting topics in the realms of mental health, sexual health, and physical health for UCLA undergraduate students.
UCLA Recreation
UCLA Recreation is committed to providing high-quality recreational experiences that benefit the campus community. They provide extensive access to a broad range of recreational activities and services. UCLA Recreation manages 14 of the University's recreational and athletic facilities offering recreation, sports, and numerous multi-use options for student and university events.
FITTED Eats
Fitness Improvement Training through Education and Diet [FITTED] is a student retention project dedicated to providing free fitness and nutrition education classes for students. As part of the Community Programs Office (CPO), students are invited to join drop-in sessions & participate in programs on health education & nutrition.
UCLA Housing
UCLA Housing oversees different university-owned housing options for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members of the UCLA community. UCLA Residential Life creates safe, supportive, and inclusive living-learning communities that engage residents in the fostering of their academic success, personal growth, leadership development, and social responsibility.
Veterans Resource Center
The Veteran Resource Center (VRC) provides caring and personalized support to UCLA undergraduate and graduate military-connected students. The VRC provides guidance on educational benefits, academic support, career development, and community building opportunities for military-connected students. The VRC values the skills, assets and experiences military-connected students bring to the UCLA community and is committed to helping them achieve their goals and aspirations to contribute to their overall well-being and sense of belonging.
Undocumented Student Program
The Undocumented Student Program (USP) within the Bruin Resource Center supports UCLA undergraduate and graduate students who are undocumented and/or part of mixed-status families. Through individual support, education, and campus advocacy, USP is dedicated to providing academic, wellness, and emotional support to students and create an inclusive environment and supportive community.
UCLA First to Go
First To Go promotes campus involvement and visibility with a focus on the retention and success of all first-generation college students at UCLA. First To Go serves as a resource hub to assist current UCLA undergraduate and graduate/professional students as they navigate the campus and provide support in building community. Being first-generation college is an accomplishment that should be celebrated!
UCLA Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
UCLA's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) leads and advances strategies for enhancing equity, diversity and inclusion; protecting civil rights; and upholding dignity for all in our community.
Students with Dependents Program
The Students with Dependents (SwD) Program within the Bruin Resource Center offers support to UCLA undergraduate, graduate, and professional students who have taken on the role of parent, guardian, or caregiver and have continued their academic careers. Through partnerships with parenting student organizations at UCLA, the SwD Program can direct students with dependents to organizations and resources that would support scholars and their families throughout their educational journey.
Student Organizations Leadership & Engagement (SOLE)
The Student Organizations Leadership & Engagement (SOLE) Office advises over 1,200 student organizations on campus. Services include registration of new and continuing organizations, programming assistance, organization & leadership development, fundraising approval and guidelines, funding proposal consultation, and advisement on rules and regulations. SOLE also approves time, place, and manner for the campus activities of registered student organizations.
Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC)
SHAC is the officially recognized UCLA student committee charged with having oversight and input into the provision of health services as well as with fostering the overall health and well-being of UCLA students. SHAC has established formal relationships not only with the Ashe Center, but also with other administrative bodies associated with student health and wellness and organizations charged with the oversight of these programs.
Peer Counseling (SRC)
The UCLA Community Programs Office (CPO)’s Student Retention Center (SRC) provides peer counseling services for students who may experience academic, social, or cultural transitions at UCLA.
Jane B Semel HCI Community Garden
In partnership with the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA, the Community Garden provides an on-campus space for the UCLA community to grow healthy food, foster education of urban gardening practices, and enjoy free, fresh produce. The garden is located atop UCLA’s iconic Sunset Canyon Amphitheater and is a dynamic learning space comprised of thirty-one raised beds flanked by an assortment of over fifty evergreen and deciduous fruit trees.
EngageWell
The EngageWell pod aims to promote healthy social relationships at UCLA working in partnership with other constituencies. Our social relationships on campus have many forms including pairs, small and large social groups, work and living units, and the campus community as a whole. In addition, the EngageWell pod aims to foster new social connections, enhance the quality of existing relationships, and promote positive social behaviors on campus.
EngageWell is part of the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiatives (HCI)
Bruin Underground Scholars
The Bruin Underground Scholars program was developed to support the academic experiences of students that identify as formerly incarcerated and/or system impacted or that have dealt with the direct and indirect experiences of the carceral system.
Bruin Shelter
Bruin Shelter is a UCLA undergraduate volunteer organization that operates a shelter for students experiencing houselessness in the greater Los Angeles area. They create a safe and supportive environment for all, provide basic resources, and help students pursue their academic goals.
BruinHub
The BruinHub is a space for commuter students to wait out traffic, rest, study, store belongings, and access valuable information and resources. As an initiative of cityLAB, administrators and advocates at UCLA developed the hub to provide spaces of rest and community for students with long and extreme commutes and students experiencing housing insecurity. Located in the heart of campus at the John Wooden Center, the BruinHub is conceived as a 24/7 on-campus space for commuting students.
Bruin Guardian Scholars
The Bruin Guardian Scholars (BGS) offers programming for current and former foster youth, students who have or are currently experiencing homelessness, experienced guardianship/kinship care, probation, or that are unaccompanied minors. The BGS program provides social and academic support, hosts community building events, provides financial scholarships, has a textbook lending library, as well as internship opportunities.
All Brains
UCLA All Brains is a student-led program that plans and arranges events for neurodiverse students at UCLA, including those with dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and more. They offer weekly socials, a peer mentoring program, workshops, and trainings for groups on how to facilitate a neurodiverse-friendly environment in their workspaces to create a community that caters to the social and emotional well-being of neurodiverse students.
Academic Advancement Program (AAP)
The Academic Advancement Program (AAP) provides an array of academic services that encourage and promote academic achievement by offering support to students from groups historically underserved in higher education. AAP is a cohort-based program designed to serve first generation, low-income, and diverse populations with services including peer tutoring, academic programs, personal and career counseling, graduate mentoring, scholarships, research opportunities, etc.
580 Café
The 580 Café is a place for students to engage in activism, and creativity through collective learning, dialogue, and relaxation. The group has daily and weekly activities led by students daily and weekly social gatherings, such as lunch on the patio, healing music and wellness presentations, mentorship program, and they also offer a shared food cupboard.
The RISE Center
The RISE Center is the campus holistic wellness hub committed to uplifting and supporting every Bruin’s well-being by providing the education, resources, and tools needed to foster health, healing, and hope. Through intentional programs, workshops, trainings, and self-directed resources students are encouraged to RISE. The RISE Center is an extension of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).
Bruin Resource Center
The Bruin Resource Center (BRC) is the home for a number of campus centers and programs that provide support to different student communities including students who have been part of the foster care and probation systems, students who are undocumented or a part of mixed-status families, parenting students and students who are taking care of other dependents such as siblings, students in recovery, students who were formerly incarcerated or impacted by the carceral system, and students who have experienced homelessness. They offer academic, social, and financial support programs.
LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
The UCLA LGBTQ Campus Resource Center (LGBTQ CRC) provides a comprehensive range of education and advocacy services supporting intersectional identity development as well as fostering unity, wellness, and an open, safe, and inclusive environment for UCLA’s LGBTQ community. The LGBTQ CRC supports community members of all sexual and gender identities and serves the entire UCLA community.