Interdepartmental Programs
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Legal, Psychological, Stress Reduction, Mediation Services
The university experience offers students vast educational opportunities, but also many difficult challenges and demands. This new academic involvement coincides with a time of life characterized by personal growth and change. As a result, many students find themselves seeking support as a way of learning to deal with the many tasks -- psychological, social, legal, and intellectual -- which confront them.
Student Legal Services
Student Legal Services (SLgS) provides legal counseling and assistance regarding a wide range of legal issues to all currently registered and enrolled UCLA students. SLgS is able to help students with a variety of problems, including: landlord/tenant relations; accident and injury problems; domestic violence and harassment; criminal matters; divorces and other family law matters; automobile purchase, repair, and insurance problems; health care, credit, and financial aid issues; and consumer problems. SLgS also frequently assists students with problems they have with other UCLA departments in such areas as housing, financial aid, harassment, discrimination, ADA compliance, student discipline, and faculty misconduct.
Ombuds Services
The mission of the Office of Ombuds Services is to ensure that all members of the University community receive fair and equitable treatment in matters of concern or complaint. The Ombudspersons – who serve students, staff, faculty, and administrators – facilitate communication when conflict arises and provide the opportunity for informal dispute resolution. Acting as neutrals and committed to confidentiality, the Ombudspersons may gather information on complaints, clarify issues, expedite processes, or when appropriate, initiate mediation. The response of the Office of Ombuds Services is tailored to the dynamics of the complaint and the informed consent of the visitor. The Ombudspersons are respectfully impartial with all parties to a conflict. The Office of Ombuds Services operates independently of usual administrative authorities. Ombudspersons may make recommendations for review or change when policies or procedures of the institution generate conflicts and/or concerns.
Student Psychological Services
SPS is a multi-disciplinary mental health center for the UCLA community, offering individual and group counseling and psychotherapy to students; emergency services; consultation, outreach, prevention, and education to students, staff and faculty; and training programs for graduate students in the mental health professions.
UCLA Student Psychological Services is designed to respond to these tasks in a variety of ways.
Services include:
- Individual Counseling/Psychotherapy: SPS provides a safe place to talk with a professional about concerns or problems, no matter how minor or serious, which might interfere with personal growth and academic achievement. Students of every age and academic level come to SPS and receive help dealing with a broad range of concerns.
- Groups/Workshops: Joining other students with common interests or concerns is often the most constructive and supportive way to gain self-understanding and develop new skills.
- Stress Clinic: UCLA Student Psychological Services also offers a Stress Clinic, focusing on different coping skills and strategies for reducing excessive stress and increasing performance effectiveness.
- Building Social Confidence
- Cognitive Approaches to Stress Management
- Relaxation Training & Biofeedback
- Stress Clinic Workshop Series
- Student Psychological Services provides 24-hour crisis counseling at (310) 825-0768
- On the web at www.sps.ucla.edu
Center for Women & Men
The Center for Women & Men offers support, guidance and referrals for the following topic areas that often impact academic, personal and professional success:
- Effective Communication
- Body Image/Disordered Eating
- Discrimination in the Classroom
- Gender Socialization
- Re-Entry/Nontraditional Student Concerns
- Relationships and Dating
- Relationship Violence
- Safety and Self-Defense
- Sex
- Sexual Harassment
- Sexual Orientation
- Sexual Violence
- Stalking
The Center also offers the following:
Services:
- Counseling
- Referrals to other support services
- Skills Building Workshops
- Consultation
- Training for student groups or campus departments
- Leadership Development
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Roommate Doctor
Programs:
- Men's Programs and Outreach Services
- E-GUY
- Re-Entry/Nontraditional Student Services
- Sexual Violence Prevention Education Services
- Student Nutrition (& body image) Action Committee - SNAC