Welcome!
The Basic Needs & Student Support department is dedicated to the success of our most vulnerable students at CSUSB Palm Desert and San Bernardino Campuses. The department serves as a multidisciplinary space to house and support the campus' basic needs services and programs. Using a holistic approach to well-being that impacts student success, the department supports students through crisis by leveraging an ecosystem campus-wide approach that utilizes on and off-campus partnerships and provides direct support referrals based on each students' circumstances.
Basic Needs and Student Support Center
The Basic Needs and Student Support Center is a one-stop holistic wellness hub for students to receive personalized compassionate care and individualized support for those who have been displaced, experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, an emergency, and/or a crisis today.
Services include but are not limited to: CalFresh application assistance, Incentive Gift Card assistance, Short-Term Emergency Housing support, Basic Needs Grant support, Swipe Out Hunger meal swipe assistance, and referrals to campus resources.
Complete a Holistic Intake to determine individual needs, explore options and resources, and help plan immediate and long-term care with you.
Basic Needs Center Hours of Operation
| Monday - Friday | 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Obershaw DEN
Location: Student Union South 224
| Monday & Tuesday | 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday & Thursday | 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday | 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
PDC DEN
Location: Health Sciences Building 118
| Monday - Wednesday | 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
| Friday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday & Thursday | 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |