University of California, Riverside
Support for All Aspects of your Bold Heart and Brilliant Mind
Health, Well-being & Safety (HWS) is a newly created division made up of nine departments that are dedicated to listening, supporting, and providing UC Riverside students with helpful resources and services for your overall safety and well-being.
The vision for HWS is to be a model of excellence in higher education by providing students the best campus environment to thrive, enhance, sustain, and support their personal growth and academic goals, ultimately making a positive impact in communities throughout California, nationally, and worldwide.
Basic Needs
Every day, Highlanders just like you take advantage of available resources like the R'Pantry — for food, hygiene products, and childcare items. In addition, we offer currently enrolled students emergency housing assistance, application assistance for CalFresh, and emergency grant support through our Economic Crisis Response Team.
- (951) 827-3663
- basicneeds@ucr.edu
- basicneeds.ucr.edu
- @ucrbasicneeds
- onesheet
Counseling
CAPS professionals provide a range of programs to promote mental health, emotional resilience, and well-being throughout the campus community. Clinical services include individual counseling, couples therapy, and group therapy, as well as psychiatric services. All services are free, confidential, and provided by a diverse and multiculturally competent professional staff.
CARE
CARE is an intervention and prevention support program committed to ending sexual violence at UCR. CARE seeks to unite, inspire and cultivate a community culture of care by providing direct advocacy, resources, and prevention educational programming related to issues of sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking to students, staff, faculty, and UCR affiliates.
- 1228 Student Services Building
- (951) 827-3861
- sdrc@ucr.edu
- sdrc.ucr.edu
- @ucrsdrc
- onesheet
Healthy Campus
Healthy Campus collaborates with campus and community partners to create a campus culture of health by incorporating health into all policies, programs, services, and learning, teaching, and working environments.
Case Management
If you're struggling with an issue, whether it’s medical, psychological, psychiatric, social, financial, or academic, Case Managers will listen, help you brainstorm, problem solve, and ultimately connect you to the right resources. Case Managers work closely with all academic and Health, Well-being & Safety departments to help students reach their goals.
Center (SDRC)
The Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) provides a wide range of free, voluntary, and confidential services to regularly enrolled UCR students with permanent or temporary disabilities. The center works with academic and support departments around the university to ensure that all students have equal access to campus life.
- 1228 Student Services Building
- (951) 827-3861
- sdrc@ucr.edu
- sdrc.ucr.edu
- @ucrsdrc
- onesheet
Student Health Services (SHS)
If you’re injured, require lab work, or need to fill a prescription, the SHS team of physicians, clinical lab scientists, and pharmacists can help. SHS offers on-campus primary care and psychiatric services, as well as referrals to off-campus specialists, programs, and resources. SHS also administers the UC Student Health Insurance Plan (UCSHIP) on campus. UCSHIP is a systemwide plan providing enhanced health benefits to all enrolled students.
- Student Health and Counseling Center, Lot 21
- (951) 827-3031
- 24/7 Nurse Line: (877) 351-3457
- health@ucr.edu
- studenthealth.ucr.edu
- onesheet
Police & Campus Safety
The mission of Police & Campus Safety is to ensure the quality of life on campus by providing a safe and secure environment through professional service to the university community. In order to be successful in this mission, Police & Campus Safety needs to maintain the public's trust and pursue a partnership with our community.
- 3500 Canyon Crest Drive
- Emergency (Police, Fire, Medical): 911
- (951) 827-5222
- ucpdgeneralmail@ucr.edu (not monitored 24/7)
- police.ucr.edu
- @ucrpolicedept
- onesheet
The Well
The Well is UCR's health promotion department, providing students with health education tools, knowledge, resources, and supplies to keep themselves as healthy as possible so they can succeed at UCR and beyond. The Well also offers opportunities for peer engagement, support, leadership, and professional development. Visit The Well’s website and social media to find out more about walk-in hours, appointments for health coaching and health-supporting supplies, and ways to get involved in health promotion efforts across campus.
A Message from Vice-Chancellor Dr. Woods
UCR's nine departments can each can contribute to your safety and well-being through a holistic approach to the campus environment
and by supporting diversity and student success through an integrated culture of wellness.