Learn about the services, help and resources available to the UBC community.
Please see UBC Student Services for more resources related to:
- Disability
- Discrimination and harassment
- Race and ethnicity
- Sexuality
- Students who are parents
- Trans and gender diversity
- Women on campus
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Arts Indigenous Student Advising | Organization | This resource is specifically for students in the Faculty of Arts and provides academic and cultural support to new and continuing First Nations, Metis, and Inuit students in the Faculty of Arts. | Students |
| Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre | Addresses the colonial legacy of residential schools and other policies imposed by the Canadian government on Indigenous Peoples, and ensures that this history is acknowledged, examined and understood within the UBC community. | Students |
| UBC First Nations Long House | Organization/ Student Programming | Engages with the public, media, and UBC personnel on a host of Indigenous-related matters. | Students |
| Indigenous Students Collegium | Organization | A space in the First Nations Longhouse that supports Indigenous students in building and fostering community, and discovering resources and opportunities. | Students |
| UBC Vancouver Indigenous Portal | Organization | Information resource for Indigenous students, faculty and the wider community. | Students |
| Resource Name | Synopsis | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Campus Lightbox | Organization | Consolidated information about mental health resources on UBC campus. | Students |
| Crisis Centre BC | Organization/ Service/ Hotline | Programs to ensure timely access to support, destigmatize suicide and mental health concerns, and increase awareness and skills for mental health. | BC Residents |
| Health and Wellbeing at UBC | List/ Guide | Connects students to health professionals to find wellness resources to support their needs and thrive mentally, physically, and emotionally at UBC. | Students |
| Here2Talk | Organization/ Hotline | Connects students to health professionals to find wellness resources to support their needs and thrive mentally, physically, and emotionally at UBC | Students |
| Hope for Wellness | Hotline / Service | Available to all Indigenous people across Canada. Experienced and culturally competent counsellors are reachable by telephone and online ‘chat’ 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. | Students |
| The Kaleidoscope | Organization | Strives to provide a mutual aid model of peer support for individuals who identify with having lived experience of mental health concerns in a safe(r), non-judgmental, stigma-free environment. | Students |
| Thrive UBC | Campaign | Resources for mental health literacy, reducing stigma, reflecting on diverse perspectives and experiences. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| UBC Counselling Services | Service | Connects students to health professionals to find wellness resources to support their needs and thrive mentally, physically, and emotionally at UBC. | Students |
| UBC Mental Health Awareness Club | Organization | Raises awareness for mental health, promotes and supports positive mental health, and eliminates the stigma towards mental illnesses and mental health conversations by hosting a variety of events and producing different blog posts on mental health. | Students |
| UBC Psychology Clinic | Service | Offers comprehensive psychological services for adults in the Greater Vancouver community. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| UBC Psychology Wellbeing | Resource List / Guide | Comprehensive list of resources available to undergraduate students. | Students |
| UBC Student Assistance Program | Service | Connects students to health professionals to find wellness resources to support their needs and thrive mentally, physically, and emotionally at UBC. | Students |
Resources and readings on topics related to race and anti-racism.
General
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Ways That Scientists And Academics Can Effectively Combat Racism | Article | How individual scientists can play a major role in transforming science and academia into a safer, more inclusive environment. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| A Dozen-Plus Ways You Can Foster Educational Equity | Guide/ Article | Teaches non-Black faculty members how to dismantle educational inequities in practical ways. | Faculty, Staff |
| Accept That You’re Racist. Then, Get To Work Dismantling Racism | Article | For White people who wish to be anti-racist, the first step in facilitating change is likely also the hardest: White people need to accept that they’re racist. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Anthropology Courses | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | Study human diversity and commonality locally, nationally, and internationally. | Students |
| Anti-racist TA Training Resources/Readings (Megan McIntyre, @RCMeg) | Guide | List of decolonial teaching resources as well as insight into the history of teaching in higher education. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Antiracism Requires Accomplices | Guide | What it means to be anti-racist, action resource list, What it means to be anti-racist, action resource list, and an anti-racism resource list. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Apathy is Boring | Organization | A non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy. | Students |
| BIPOC Authored Psychology Papers | Guide | A starting point to find research conducted by BIPOC researchers. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Collaborative Resource: Addressing systemic shortcomings in mental health training | Guide | A collaborative document for students, faculty, and programs in mental health training. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Colour Connected Against Racism UBC | Organization | An AMS resource group that works to end racism, and all forms of oppression, discrimination and prejudice. | Students |
| Concrete Steps for Recruiting, Supporting, and Advancing Underrepresented Minoritized Scientists | Guide | Teaches over-represented scientists to get engaged and work toward equity and fair representation. | Faculty, Staff |
| Contextualizing the cost of racism for people of colour: Theory, research, and practice | Textbook | Leading scholars examine the felt experience of being the target of racism, with a focus on mental and physical health. | Faculty, Students |
| Culturally-responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond | Textbook | Offers an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. | Faculty, Students |
| Even the Rat was White: A Historical View of Psychology by Robert Guthrie | Textbook | Histories of social psychology are presented in detail concerning early African-American psychologists and their scientific contributions. | Faculty, Students |
| Gender, Race, and Social Justice Courses | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | An area of study that delves deeper into the intersections of gender, sexuality, social justice, and race. | Students |
| Helen Neville's Twitter Thread on Racial Trauma and Healing | Guide/ List | Provides resources to learn more about radical healing pedagogies. | Faculty, Staff |
| IBPOC Connections: Staff and Faculty | Organization/ Initiative | An initiative designed for and by IBPOC faculty and staff at UBC to enhance their experiences and outcomes. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Ibram X. Kendi's Anti-Racist Reading List | Article | 38 books for those open to changing themselves, and their world. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Interrogating Your Discipline, and Other Ways Into Anti-Racist Teaching | Guide | Resources for teachers looking to create an anti-racist pedagogy. | Faculty, Staff |
| Jin Xun Goh's Twitter Thread on Articles on Racism | Guide/ List | Provides links to articles that can be used in class to understand racism through a social psychology lens. | Faculty, Staff |
| Law and Society Courses | Undergraduate Courses | Allows students to study law as a social phenomenon that is central to the organization of social relations and social life. | Students |
| Pedagogical Strategies to Acknowledge and Discuss Institutional Legacies of Racism | Textbook | Discusses higher education's institutional past in powerful ways, and remind us of the importance of trauma-informed pedagogies. | Faculty, Staff |
| Psychology of Radical Healing Syllabus by The Psychology of Radical Healing Collective | Guide | A masterlist of foundational texts, emerging frameworks, etc. designed to encourage a deeper exploration of radical healing in psychology. | Faculty, Staff |
| Racism in the Canadian University: Demanding social justice, inclusion and equality | Textbook | Discusses the ways in which the institutional culture of the academy privileges Whiteness and Anglo-Eurocentric ways of knowing. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Shades of Sustainability | Organization | A community project that unpacks what it means to engage in environmental action as BIPOC. | Students |
| Sociology Courses | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | Examines processes of social and cultural life in human societies. | Students |
| SPARK Society | Organization | Creates networks and promotes the professional development of historically excluded scholars in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks | Book | Answers important questions about racism and sexism in the classroom and how to teach students who do not want to learn. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| 'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society | Article | An article that delves into how white people need to confront how they have been shaped by race. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks | Organization | A network of community organizations committed to promoting food security in neighbourhoods. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Vanguard STEM | Organization | An online network of women of colour, girls of colour and non-binary people of colour thriving on the STEM frontier. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
#LandBack
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| "All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker | Book | Tackles a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| All My Relations | Podcast | Explores relationships - to land, to cultural relatives, and to one another. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| As Long As Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker | Book | Explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Book | Shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Evan's Drum (2021) | Film | A joyful visit to a family’s loving home, and an uplifting story of cultural pride. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| First Nations and Indigenous Studies | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | Looks at the historical, cultural, political, economic and legal issues that inform the experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada. | Students |
| For Angela (1993) | Film | Portrays the experiences of Rhonda Gordon and her daughter, Angela, when a simple bus ride changes their lives in an unforeseeable way. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Freedom Road Series (2019) | Documentary | A five-part documentary series that tells the inspiring story of Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe First Nation and their battle to build a road. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Holy Angels (2017) | Film | Recaptures Canada’s colonialist history through impressionistic images and the fragmented language of a child. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2019) | Film | A battle for the right of First Nations and Inuit children to receive the same standard of social, health and educational services as the rest of the Canadian population. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) | Film | A dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (2021) | Film | Shares the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who challenges sex discrimination against First Nations women embedded in Canada’s Indian Act. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle | Book | Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer’s own history and a reimagining of the future of our nation. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Native American DNA by Kimberly TallBear | Book | How DNA testing is a powerful-and problematic-scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019) | Film | Follows Colten Bushie's family after he died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friend in their journey for justice. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Red Skins, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard | Book | Challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People by Kari Marie Norgaard | Book | Draws upon insight from Karuk experiences on the Klamath River to illustrate how the ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors by Charlotte Cote | Book | Offers a valuable perspective on the issues surrounding Indigenous whaling. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Stories Are in Our Bones (2019) | Film | Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother), a residential school survivor who retains a deep knowledge and memory of the land. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Equity Myth by Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos, and Malinda S. Smith | Book | Shows how the goal of achieving equity in higher education has been consistently promised, but never realized for racialized and Indigenous faculty members. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Great Vansishing Act by Norbert S. Hill Jr. & Kathleen Ratteree | Book | Brings together writers from around the world to explore the biological and cultural metaphor of blood quantum. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Lake Winnipeg Project (2021) | Documentary | Stories of ingenuity and resilience in four diverse communities surrounding Lake Winnipeg, at a time when many external forces are imposing change. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline | Book | The Indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something: the ability to dream. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society (VAFCS) | Organization | Provides tools that empowers self reliance; responsibility; success and prosperity, for all Indigenous individuals, family and community. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles & Soong Chan Rah | Book | The authors call our nation and churches to a truth-telling that will expose past injustices and open the door to conciliation and true community. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Urban Native Youth Association | Organization | UNYA's focus has been to provide meaningful opportunities for Indigenous youth in the urban setting. | Students |
#StopAsianHate
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Asian Awareness Project | Organization | Brings awareness to the injustices Asians face while educating their audience on the culture they continue to keep alive. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Asian Studies | Undergraduate/ Graduate Courses | Aims to educate students about the diverse cultures, languages, and traditions across Asia. | Students |
| How to Support the AAPI Community in a Time of Hate: A Resource List | Guide | A resource list to support and aid AAPI community members, as well as point both AAPI and non-AAPI allies to places they can go to to learn more. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Hua Foundation | Organization | A youth empowerment non-profit connecting cultural heritage and social change. | Students |
| Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story (2003) | Film | After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all persons of Japanese descent in Canada were sent to internment camps. The film discusses how baseball served as a way to bridge cultures, and allowed Japanese people to survive in these camps. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Sliced Mango Collective | Organization | An organization that centers Filipinx identity and cultures. Through art, performance, and community work, they hope to engage Filipinx youth in celebrating their culture and identities. (Organization) | Students |
| The Color of Success by Ellen D. Wu | Book | A look into the transformation of Asian-American communities from being perceived as "terror" into a model minority. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Muslim American Life by Moustafa Bayoumi | Book | Offers a look at the culture of the War on Terror as experienced by Muslim Americans. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Unwanted Soldiers (1994) | Film | A look into the legacy of discrimination and racism against BC's Chinese-Canadian community. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Western Eyes (2000) | Documentary | This documentary presents two Canadian women of Asian descent who are contemplating eyelid surgery. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Yarrow Society 世代同行會 | Organization | Supports youth and low-income immigrant seniors in Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
#BlackLivesMatter
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Academics for Black Survival and Wellness | Organization | A professional development initiative for Non-Black academics to honor the toll of racial trauma on Black people. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Ain't I a Woman? by bell hooks | Book | Examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, and black male sexism. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Book | Written as a letter to the author's son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Black Lives Matter Vancouver | Organization | An online forum intended to build connections between Black people and their allies to fight anti-Black racism in "Vancouver". | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper | Book | Discusses rage as a source of power that grants black women the strength to not only survive but thrive in America. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Fatal Invention by Dororthy Roberts | Book | This work shows that all people are indeed created equal, despite political and economic interests that keep trying to persuade us otherwise. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis | Book | Reflects on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta | Book | Follows Kara Davis through elementary school to her high school graduation, as she comes of age while being caught between her Canadian nationality and Jamaican heritage. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| How She Read by Chantal Gibson | Book | A holistic, decolonized approach to challenging imperialist ideas by way of a close look at Canadian literature et. al | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Ice Breakers (2019) | Film | Josh Crooks is a promising teen hockey star in a sport where Black players like him are chronically underrepresented. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Invisible City (2009) | Film | A moving story of two boys from Regent Park crossing into adulthood. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| James Baldwin's Collected Essays and Works | Book | Presents the pain and struggle of Black Americans. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Journal of Black Psychology | Journal | Presents research on the behavior and experiences of Black and other populations from Black or Afrocentric perspectives. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Journey to Justice (2000) | Film | Pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Land to Light On by Dionne Brand | Book | This work looks at the experience of being an outsider to a new land — and the complicated feeling of being uncomfortable in this climate. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| North of the Color Line by Sarah-Jane Mathieu | Book | Examines factors such as social, political, labour and immigration through the lens of the experiences of black railway workers. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard | Book | This work traces the underreported modern and historical realities of anti-Blackness within a Canadian context. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Rachel Cargle's course on 'The Great Unlearn' | Online Course | Monthly self paced, self priced learning collective, committed to highlighting the genius of academics of colour. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Remember Africville (1991) | Film | Depicts a small black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia and how in the '60s the families were uprooted. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt | Book | A memoir about identity, race and belonging. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde | Book | Takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Sonnet's Shakespeare by Sonnet L'Abbe | Book | Takes the work of William Shakespeare and inserts herself — a mixed race South Asian and Black Canadian poet. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison | Book | Story of an eleven-year-old, black girl in an America who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Color of Beauty (2010) | Film | Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. But she’s a Black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Hanging of Angelique by Afua Cooper | Book | Tells the story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal in the 1700s. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Hidden Rules of Race by Andrea Flynn, Susuan R. Holmber, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong | Book | Offers examples of the many ways in which unspoken rules of race and economics perpetuate inequality. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander | Book | Challenges all of us to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole | Book | This book chronicles Coles's personal journalism, activism and experiences alongside stories that made the headlines across the country in 2017. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| They Call be George by Cecil Foster | Book | Being a train porter in Canada was a job reserved for Black men only and forced these men to be separated from their families as they travelled the country. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| They Said This Would be Fun by Eternity Martis | Book | A memoir about the difficulty of navigating through white spaces as a student of colour. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| UBC Black Caucus | Organization | Promotes a greater sense of community, advocate progress and maintain ongoing support for Black students, staff, and faculty at UBC. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| UBC Black Student Union | Organization | Aims to highlight and celebrate the multifaceted nature of Black cultures through events. | Students |
| Until We Are Free, edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware | Book | Addresses how developments in Canadian Black activism, and alliances with Indigenous groups have served to challenge systemic racism. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele | Book | This memoir reveals what it is like to be Black in today's violently racially charged America. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| White Accomplices | Website | A website developed to support white people to act for racial justice. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Dr. Beverly Tatum | Book | A look into the psychology of racism to enhance communication across racial and ethnic divides. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Zero Toelarance (2004) | Film | Reveals how deep seated prejudice can be. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
Unlearning Anti-Semitism
| Resource Name | Summary | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism | Organization/ Workshop | Provides Canadian teachers and students across the country with two award-winning human rights programs that include sections on the Holocaust and antisemitism | Faculty, Students |
| Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre - Antisemitism Workshop | Organization/ Workshop | Provides practical step-by-step guidelines and empowers students and the general public to become upstanders against antisemitism and other forms of racism. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism | Book | Assists university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism and other forms of prejudice. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Resources and Tools for Addressing Antisemitism, Intolerance and Bias by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington | Guide | Assists university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism and other forms of prejudice. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Resources to Address and Challenge Antisemitism by the Anti-Defamation League | Guide | Assists teachers who are looking to help students understand and challenge antisemitism. | Faculty, Staff |
| Antisemitism: You can make a difference today | Online course | Teaches about antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the ongoing discrimination against Jewish people. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Canadian Taskforce to Combat Antisemitism | Project | Looks at antisemitism online and what can be done to confront it through three virtual roundtables. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre | Organization | Teaches about Holocaust-based anti-racism education. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Antisemitism resources by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa | Guide | Compiles a list of books, online reports, and scholarly thought on antisemitism. | Faculty, Students, Staff |
| Resource Name | Synopsis | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Religious Student Clubs at UBC | List/ Guide | AMS CampusBase list of registered religious and spiritual clubs at UBC. | Students |
| UBC Chaplains | Service | Guide members of the UBC community in engaging with their spirituality and faith. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| UBC Meditation Community | Organization | Helps members learn and develop a formal meditation practice in order to promote overall health. | Students |
| UBC Multifaith Prayer Rooms | Service | UBC provides multifaith prayer rooms on campus for students of all faiths to pray, meditate, reflect or find quiet. | Students |
| UBC Yoga Club | Organization | A student-run, affordable yoga club working to create a safe and loving community for people to practice yoga and build life-long friendships both on and off the mat. | Students |
| Chabad Jewish Student Centre Vancouver | Organization | Serves the Jewish student population at UBC and local community colleges with religious, educational, social, and recreational programming. The Centre strives to create a space where “Every Jew is Family” on campus for Jews of all backgrounds. | Students |
| Hillel BC | Organization | Promotes Jewish life on campus and beyond, providing a warm, welcoming environment where students on BC campuses are able to grow religiously, culturally, socially and ethically. | Students |
| Resource Name | Synopsis | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| AMS Food Bank | An emergency food relief service for UBC students, faculty and staff in need. | Faculty, Staff, Undergraduates, Graduates |
| AMS Student Fees | Opt out of fees totalling up to $425.74 a term. Check the link for updated information. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| AMS Subsidies | Opt out of fees totalling up to $377.90. Check the link for updated information. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| Student Enrolment and Finances | ||
| Awards/ Scholarships | Merit-based awards primarily based on academic achievement. Other merits such as community involvement or athletic achievements may also be considered. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| Bursaries | Designed to support students with unment financial need. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| Emergency Funding | In sistuations wherein you require financial support due to extraneous circumstances. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| Psychology Department and Faculty of Arts Funding | ||
| Faculty of Arts Funding Opportunities | Merit-based awards, tuition award, etc. | Graduates |
| Psychology Funding Opportunities | Scholarships, awards, teaching assistanships, etc. | Graduates |
| Psychology Funding Opportunities | Travel funding, research assistanships, merit-based awards. | Undergraduates |
| Work Opportunities | ||
| AMS Jobs | Whether you're looking for full-time, part-time or a student job scheduled around your classes, the AMS can help you. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| Arts Co-Op Program | Offers undergraduate and graduate students enriched educational experiences through workplace learning in a diversity of organizations. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| CareersOnline | The online job and volunteer board for UBC students and alumni. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| Participate in Paid Studies | List of studies that are actively recruiting participants and providing cash based prizes upon completion of their study. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| Science Co-Op Program | Offers undergraduate and graduate students enriched educational experiences through workplace learning in a diversity of organizations. | Undergraduates, Graduates |
| Work Learn Program | Supports and subsidizes meaningful work experiences on and off campus, offering current UBC Vancouver students the opportunity to develop their professional skills. | Undergraduates |
| Resource Name | Synopsis | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| AMS SASC | Organization | Committed to the education, support, and empowerment of people of all genders who are survivors of sexualized violence, as well as their friends and family. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| UBC SVPRO | Organization | Provides a confidential place for those who have experienced, or been impacted by, any form of sexual or gender-based violence, harassment, or harm, regardless of where or when it took place. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| VictimLink BC | Hotline/ Organization | Provides information and referral services to all victims of crime and immediate crisis support to victims of family and sexual violence, including victims of human trafficking exploited for labour or sexual services. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Equity Committee: Overview of UBC Sexual Misconduct Policy | Provides an overview of what happens when someone makes a complaint of sexual misconduct at UBC. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Resource Name | Synopsis | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Care Collective Zine | Organization/ Zine | Reimagines wellness for youth of marginalized genders. | Students |
| CiTR: Gender Empowerment | Radio/ Organization | Features conversations about gender, race and social justice. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Out on the Shelves | Organization | An LGBTQ2IA+ library on Musqueam land. Run by volunteers, librarians, and librarians-in-training. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Qmunity | Organization | Works to improve queer, trans, and Two-Spirit lives by providing e a safer space for LGBTQ2SAI+ people and their allies to fully self-express while feeling welcome and included. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Queer Community Collective | Organization | Discusses topics relating to Queer communities, individuals, etc. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Sher Vancouver | Podcast | Podcast for Queer, Trans, and BIPOC Folk. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| The Pride Collective UBC | Organization | A student lead organization that organizes events, provides resources, and creates inclusive spaces. | Students |
| UBC Drag | Organization | Queer nightlife and Drag performances by students at UBC. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Vancouver Pride | Organization | Non-profit celebrating + promoting the diverse 2SLGBTQAI+ community in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Wellness Beyond the Binary | Organization | Helps with access to healthcare, mental health support, etc. to members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Resource Name | Synopsis | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Healing in Colour | Service | Offers a directory of BIPOC therapists who are committed to supporting BIPOC— in all the intersections. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Jericho Counselling | Service | Provides therapists from diverse backgrounds to better a clients experience with therapy. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Vancouver Black Therapy and Advocacy Foundation | | Raises funds to connect Black community members with accredited Black counsellors and therapists locally. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| 2SLGBTQIA+ Resources Compiled by Claire Sessoms | List/ Guide | Provides crisis intervention, low-cost or free counselling, and peer support for queer youth, adults, and elders. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Resource Name | Synopsis | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility on Campus | Guide | Provides information about how UBC members can get around campus in an accessible manner. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Centre for Workplace Accessibility | Guide | Exists as a central hub for resources, tools, and programs that help remove barriers for faculty and staff with disabilities or ongoing medical conditions. | Faculty, Staff |
| Checklist for Accessible Events | Guide | Assists all UBC staff in planning events, public consultations, celebrations, and other occasions so that they can be equally accessible to, and inclusive of, community members who have a disability. | Faculty, Staff |
| UBC Services for Students with Disabilities | Guide | Provides information about services available to students with ongoing accessibility needs and/or disabilities. | Students |
| Undergraduate Admissions for Students with Disabilities | Guide | Contains information about how to find help on campus for students with disabilities. | Students |
| Web Accessibility at UBC | Guide | Improves the accessibility and usability of UBC websites to ensure equitable access to all sites and services for all members of the community. | Faculty, Staff, Students |
