California community colleges offer a full complement of support services. The student services program in community colleges has as its chief function the facilitation of the education, growth, and development of students. Following is a list of services that colleges may provide to help you successfully complete your educational goal:

• Counseling and advising
• Career center and job placement services
• Child care
• Services for students with disabilities
• Extended Opportunity Program and Services (EOPS)
• Financial aid
• Health services
• Services for re-entry students
• Scholarships
• Testing services
• Transfer center
• Tutoring
  • Math assistance
  • Writing assistance
• Veterans services
• Services for students coming off welfare

For more information on any of these services, students should contact the college.

A very large percentage of students at community colleges are above the age of 25. Many colleges have developed special programs to assist re-entry students. Some of these services may include a drop-in re-entry center, a counselor especially for re-entry students, and college orientation/success classes designed for re-entry students. You should check with the college counseling center to learn about re-entry services.

Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSPS) provide support services, specialized instruction, and educational accommodations to students with disabilities so that they can participate as fully and benefit as equitably from the college experience as their non-disabled peers. Examples of services available through DSPS that are over and above those regularly offered by the college would be test-taking facilitation, assessment for learning disabilities, specialized counseling, interpreter services, reader services, speech services, transcription services, transportation, specialized tutoring, access to adaptive equipment, job development/placement, registration assistance, and specialized instruction.

You should contact the college's DSPS office.