Help for Students in Need
Thrive Central Oregon
- Thrive Central Oregon
Thrive helps prevent housing and financial insecurity by connecting people to the resources they need.
Available for phone or virtual appointments. Email us: thrive@cocc.edu or call us: 541-527-6884
Food Resources
- Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon
- Neighbor Impact
- Neighbor Impact - Brown Bag Programs
Fresh produce and perishable foods provided daily. Call your city's local number or visit the link above for specific days and times.
- Neighbor Impact - Brown Bag Programs
- DHS Self-Sufficiency Office
- Campus Food Options: Campus Food Service and Cascade Culinary Institute - Bakery Kiosk
- ASCOCC Food Bank
Financial Resources
- COVID-19 Fund - Student Application. The COCC COVID-19 Fund assists students with financial challenges that arise as a direct result of COVID-19.
- COCC’s Pathways to Opportunity (PTO) program provides students facing financial barriers with needed financial support, including help with tuition and fees, transportation, food, books, testing fees, and more. The program is open to all students.
- The SNAP Training & Education Program (STEP) provides support to students needing assistance with tuition and fees, transportation, food, and more but is targeted towards students receiving SNAP benefits.
Housing Resources
Emergency Resources
- Aunt Bertha - The Social Care Network
This network give you a list of resources related to food, housing, transportation, healthcare, education, work and legal advise located in Central Oregon. - National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
- 211 Info
Access to Providers for Child Care in Central Oregon - United Way of Deschutes County
- National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Health & Wellness Resources
- COCC Personal Counseling (CAP Center)
- Saving Grace
- Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
- Mosaic Medical
- Volunteers in Medicine
- Deschutes County Behavioral Health
- Oregon Healthcare Plan
- PacificSource Community Solutions
- Sight for Students
Gift certificate program to help students find glasses through community partners. - Dental Clinic at COCC
Low income individuals with no dental insurance are provided necessary fillings or extractions by licensed dentists for only a $20 supply fee. Contact Deschutes County Health Services at 541-322-7400. - Community Shower Truck Ministry offers showers in Bend and Redmond to our residents who don’t have access or consistent
access to a warm shower. Additional Services: New or gently used socks and underwear
are available for all clients as well as hygiene items including toothbrushes, toothpaste,
razors, deodorant, etc.
Phone: 541-480-5659 Email: cst.bend@gmail.com.- Bend: operates at the Family Kitchen, on the corner of Wall St. and Idaho on Weds. and Fri. from 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- Redmond: operates at the Church of God, on the corner of 4th and Birch streets. The truck operates on Thursdays.
Transportation Resources
Employment Related Resources
- WorkSource Bend and Redmond
Bend Phone: 541-388-6070
Redmond Phone: 541-548-8196
WorkSource on the Madras Campus every Monday and Thursday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. - COCC Career Services
Phone: 541-383-7200
Email: capservices@cocc.edu