基本需要中心
Welcome!
The 基本需要中心 at Los Angeles Valley College offers an expansion of basic needs services that includes support for food, housing, technology, financial, transportation, 个人卫生, childcare, mental, physical, 医疗资源, 以及任何相关的需求. Please learn about how we started, below.
Our Services
The 基本需要中心 is currently offering the following services to provide food security to our students:
- CalFresh申请协助
- 星期三热餐
- 每周四食物分配
- 与 学生的午餐盒, 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.
- 紧急食物卡
- Meal Vouchers
The 基本需要中心 is currently offering the following services to provide housing security to our students:
- Housing and access center referrals
- 住房导航
- 解决问题
- 区住房
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 援助之手/基本需要中心 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 law recently passed in an effort to address basic need insecurity.
LAVC员工 can learn more about the 基本需要中心 and refer a student on the SharePoint内部网页.
学生家长须知
Los Angeles Valley College Student Parents may be eligible for many services including:
- 优先注册
- California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC)
- 幼儿税收抵免(YCTC)
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
For more information, please get in touch with the 基本需要中心 at @email.
Our History
Helping Hands (HH) was established in 2003 when staff members were alerted to assist a homeless student living on-campus with her young child. Many departments worked in collaboration to obtain resources and assist her in securing housing and other necessities for her child. Over time, many other students experiencing similar issues were referred. As a result, the departments decided to develop a fund through the LAVC Foundation that would provide immediate access to resources.
While the HH fund through the LAVC Foundation will continue to be run out of the CalWORKs office, the 基本需要中心 is evolving to become a centralized hub on campus assisting students experiencing any form of basic need insecurity. Thanks to the new legislation AB 132, we have hired a full-time Basic Needs 咨询师/协调员, 胡安·卡斯特罗, who will assist in expanding what was once a program operated by dedicated volunteers in the CalWORKs office to a center open to over 15,000 students. 在下面了解更多关于胡安的信息.
We are proud of our rich history and what’s to come from our Center and our partnerships with both on- and off-campus resources. 与CalWORKs合作, 家庭资源中心, and many other departments on campus, we will continue to serve students and meet their fundamental needs.
Our Staff
胡安·卡斯特罗 M.S.
咨询师/协调员
Born and raised in South LA and El Monte, Juan is a first-generation college student who attended public schools, proudly graduated from a continuation high school, and studied at Rio Hondo Community College. After transferring to California State University, Los Angeles, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Work and continued his education at California State University, Northridge, where he earned a master’s degree in College Counseling and 学生服务.
Equity and student success stand at the forefront of Juan’s work, and with that his focus and specialization have been geared toward special populations. He has previously worked with students at Rio Hondo College, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, and East Los Angeles College in the following programs: Basic Needs, formerly incarcerated (system impacted) scholars, bgi /保健/ NEXTUP, 《皇冠官网网站》的学者, Dreamers, and LGBTQIA+.
可以联系到胡安 @email or at (818) 778-5965. His office is located in the Unity Center, CC-127.
哈维尔·拉洛·卡诺
咨询实习生
Lucia Martinez
咨询实习生
瓦马丁内斯
咨询实习生
Yosseling马丁内斯
注册助理
Varduhi Anumyan
学生联络
Ani Gevorgyan
学生联络
Hailey埃尔南德斯
学生联络
Artur Kobyakov
学生联络
Erick Zarate
学生联络
办公时间及地点
校园中心127 -团结中心
Walk-In Hours: 星期一:上午9点至下午12点
星期二:下午1点至5点
预约时间:
周三:上午9点至11:30
星期五:9 am-1pm
星期六及星期日:休息
Contact
基本需要中心
Phone: (818) 778-5965
胡安·卡斯特利亚诺斯，M.S.
基本需要中心 Counselor and Coordinator
Phone: (818) 778-5965
Email: @email