Basic Needs Center
Welcome!
The Basic Needs Center at Los Angeles Valley College offers an expansion of basic needs services that includes support for food, housing, technology, financial, transportation, personal hygiene, childcare, mental, physical, medical resources, and any related needs. Please learn about how we started, below.
Our Services
The Basic Needs Center is currently offering the following services to provide food security to our students:
- CalFresh Application Assistance
- Warm Meal Wednesdays
- Food Distributions Every Thursday
- In collaboration with , we serve our Monarch students with the freshest produce available. We aim to fight food insecurity and ensure our students have access to nutritional and healthy foods.
- Emergency Food Cards
- Meal Vouchers
The Basic Needs Center is currently offering the following services to provide housing security to our students:
- Housing and access center referrals
- Housing Navigation
- Problem-Solving
- District Housing
Get Connected to Basic Needs Assistance
If you are a student in need at Los Angeles Valley College and would like to get connected to campus and community-based resources, please fill out the submission form below.
*Disclaimer: The Helping Hands/Basic Needs Center at Los Angeles Valley College is not a housing or social service agency. We do not provide direct housing nor do we provide legal aid. We connect and help our students navigate resources in the community to alleviate their basic need challenges. To better understand the role of our center and basic needs coordinator, please see the new recently passed in an effort to address basic need insecurity.
LAVC employees can learn more about the Basic Needs Center and refer a student on the
For Student Parents
Los Angeles Valley College Student Parents may be eligible for many services including:
- Priority registration
For more information, please get in touch with the Basic Needs Center at @email.