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- A Community Place
- This social service referral center, located at St. Mark's Lutheran Church at the corner of Vermont Avenue and West 36th Place, is a coordinated effort to educate the campus about the needs of the working poor and homeless while providing a central location for distribution of bus tokens, healthy bag lunches, referrals and a social worker to talk to.
Contact: Diane Kenney, 213-740-2667
Email: kenney@usc.edu
- Black Alumni Association
- For over 25 years, the Black Alumni Association at the University of Southern California has successfully reached out to African American students to provide financial aid and mentoring support. Founded by the late Dr. Rev. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., in 1976, the USC BAA (originally named USC Ebonics Support Group) is a unique alumni support organization with a primary goal to provide services to USC African American alumni.
Contact: Lura Ball, 213-740-8342
Email: obap@alumnicenter.usc.edu
- Cancer Information Service
- The program's main object is to outreach and to build partnerships with agencies and organizations throughout Southern California that serve minority populations in order to bring them the latest and most accurate cancer information.
Contact: Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, 626-457-6606
Email: baezcond@usc.edu
- Center for Religion and Civic Culture
- The Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) is a research unit of USC College. The center collaborates with faith-based community organizations in identifying and analyzing public policy issues, creating archival resources, developing planning and evaluation models, and facilitating cooperative relationships among faith-based community leaders, funders and public officials. CRCC supports interdisciplinary research in religion at USC and interprets faith-based community development and organizing to scholars, religious institutions and the media.|
Contact: Donald E. Miller, 213-740-8562
Email: crcc@usc.edu
- Dental Health Fairs in the Community
- Last year, USC School of Dentistry students participated in over 30 health fairs at the request of community groups. Volunteer dental and dental hygiene students provide oral health and nutrition education, tooth brush instruction, dental screening and referrals for care to more than 3,000 community members.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Niel Nathason, 213-740-1523
Email: nathason@usc.edu
- Guest Relations
- Student tour guides lead USC campus tours for groups and individuals, Monday-Friday, from 10 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon, on the hour. Tours leave from the USC Admission Center, Trojan Hall 101, near the corner of Figueroa Street and Exposition Boulevard.
Contact: Karen Rowan-Badger, 213-740-6605
- Health Affairs Outreach
- The associate vice president for Health Affairs cultivates relations with the communities adjacent to the USC Health Sciences Campus and serves as a resource for the community as well as for USC administrative and academic units.
Contact: John C. Hisserich, 323-442-2077
Email: hisseric@usc.edu
- Historic California Collections Initiative
- The purpose of the Historic California Collections Initiative is to seek primary research materials about Southern California's founding families.
Contact: Dace Taube, 213-821-2366
Email: taube@usc.edu
- Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center
- The center, part of the USC Andrus Gerontology Center, provides information and referral, family consultation, respite funding, legal consultation funding, support groups and short-term counseling to assist caregivers who are caring for a cognitively impaired adult (Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's, stroke, head injury). Provides workshops, training sessions and education to professionals in the community and caregivers on topics of concern, such as legal, financial and illness. Serves all of Los Angeles County with four satellite offices.
Contact: Donna Benton, (800) 540-4442
Email: lacrc@usc.edu
- Manual Arts High School Teen Clinic
- The clinic offers free, on-campus services to students attending Manual Arts High School. Students can receive care for acute and chronic health issues; physical exams; immunizations; vision and hearing tests; family planning; counseling; and education to prevent pregnancy, drug and alcohol problems. In addition, assistance is provided in enrolling families in Medi-Cal, Healthy Families and Healthy Kids programs that provide free or reduced-cost health insurance.
Contact: Julie McAvoy, 323-232-1121 ext. 2056
Email: jmcavoy@chla.usc.edu
- Neighborhood Theatre Resource Network
- Neighborhood TuRN at the University of Southern California is a center for research, development and networking of and for performing arts organizations whose work is based primarily in the community of Central Los Angeles. Its central task is to provide the students, staff and faculty of USC with access to the services they may need to research, document and produce community-based theater. It also provides members of the community surrounding USC with free theater services or referrals to theater services where possible and appropriate.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Brent Blair, 213-740-7175
Email: bblair@usc.edu
- Preparing for College Web Site
- This Web site is provided as a free public service by USC, Preparing for College and is a step-by-step guide in preparation for admission to any selective college in the United States. In addition to valuable tools and tips for students and parents -- including financial aid advice, valuable links to resources across the Web and a grade-by-grade checklist of college preparation activities -- the continuously growing site features an extensive section for high school counselors. Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Bahasa translation available in the parent section of the Web site.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Mel Preimesberger, 213-740-1779
- Programa Padres a Padres
- Volunteer members of Padres a Padres are also members of the USC Latino Parent's Association and are asked to volunteer their time and share their experiences and information about the college admission process with parents of prospective students in their communities.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Mel Preimesberger, 213-740-1779
Email: preimesb@usc.edu
Gabriela Lopez, 213-740-1480 gabriefl@usc.edu
- Spanish Cultural Resource Center
- This center provides support to institutions, educators and persons involved or interested in teaching and learning Spanish. The center offers resources (an extensive library, including didactic materials, literature, encyclopedias, children's books, videos, online materials, and more), and teacher training courses. SCRC also organizes cultural events related to the Spanish language and culture.
Contact: Anabel Sanchez, 213-740-5896
Email: ana.sanchez.usa@correo.mec.es
- USC Civic and Community Relations
- USC Civic and Community Relations (USC CCR), a unit of University Relations under USC External Relations, harnesses the resources of the university on behalf of the communities it strives to serve at both its University Park and Health Sciences campuses. It develops partnerships with local community and USC leaders, stakeholders and decision makers; and implements and promotes USC's Children and Family University Initiative through the USC Family of Schools and USC Health Sciences Campus Partner Schools Task Force. USC CCR also documents and communicates USC's community involvement; provides direct services to the community; and administers the L.A. Metro Minority Business Develoment Center, the USC Educational Opportunity Programs Center, Multimedia University Academy, and the USC School for Early Childhood Education. This work is carried out with input from the USC Community Advisory Council.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Kay Song, 213-743-5262
Email: ccr@usc.edu
- USC Community Advisory Council
- The mission of the USC CAC is to provide advice to the President of the University of Southern California and USC Civic and Community Relations regarding the Five University Community Initiatives, other university priorities and assistance with their implementation. USC's community outreach efforts focus on the neighborhoods surround its University Park and Health Sciences campuses.
Contact: Janice Hsia, 213-743-5266
Email: jhsia@usc.edu
- USC Community Health Fair
- The annual USC Community Health Fair is part of the ongoing efforts of the USC Health Sciences Campus Community Outreach office and the USC HSC Partner Schools Task Force to bring health services, education and information to the residents of the surrounding community. The health fair introduces many families to free and low-cost preventative health services and basic health screenings. |
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: David Galaviz, 323-442-3572
Email: dgalaviz@usc.edu
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