Resources

Financial Workshops

As a graduate student you often find yourself juggling the pressures of your personal life, health and wellness, schooling and career, and finances. Here are some resources we hope will help you pull all the pieces together.

UO Grad Families: register for the Grad School listserve gradstudentfamilies@lists.uoregon.edu

Academic Resources: https://gradschool.uoregon.edu/onestop

Financial Aid

Feeling Financially Strapped? Here are some small but helpful cost saving resources:

UO Health | Campus Safety | K-12 Safety

We encourage everyone to find a healthy balance of self-care, professional growth, and career readiness. Hopefully, this includes time at the UO Rec Center, taking advantage of free visits to the Counseling Center, and other healthy choices.

Welcoming Schools Workshop

Welcoming Schools Workshop

We live in a world and a time when violence can encroach on our lives. As we all work to take precautions, here are some campus safety resources and tips.

  • UO Safe – victims & survivors
  • Sign up for UOAlert via DuckWeb, cell and email alerts
  • Review the UO Emergency Procedures Guide, http://emc.uoregon.edu/node/50
  • Make your own emergency supply kit, http://emc.uoregon.edu/node/46
  • Check building evacuation maps (posted in hallways) for evacuation routes and assembly area
  • Use UO Safe Ride when traveling alone at night: 541-346-RIDE

As student teachers, there are additional trainings and resources that you are required to complete annually to help ensure you are ready to help students in your classrooms and able to follow protocols.

  1. Tips for Talking to Children about School Violence
  2. The Children are Always Watching
  3. Faculty Specific Recommendations – includes sample emergency information for syllabi: http://emc.uoregon.edu/content/faculty
  4. Staff Specific Recommendations – includes basic emergency information
  5. Departmental Emergency Plan Template
  6. On-line Training – the full version of the training including our campus specific portions and access to the Shots Fired on Campus video: http://ers.uoregon.edu/content/training#Violence  (Please note, when you follow the link, you will get an Access denied message, but the sentence below has a link to log in. If you click that and use your DuckId, you’ll be able to access the video).
UOTeachOUT

UOTeachOUT

Professionalism Guidelines

Laws & Regulations:

Cohort 7 Wrapping it up!

Graduate School Policies

Mental Health  | Campus Safety | K-12 Safety

Graduate school can be stressful, to help you maintain a healthy balanced life, we encourage you to become a regular user of the Rec Center – as student, you are paying for these and many other services through your term “fees.”

Please take advantage of the comprehensive healthcare and counseling center services that you are paying for with your student fees. These include individual and group counseling, general medical care to specialty services including pharmacy, laboratory, dental, X-ray, physical therapy, and sports medicine.

Childcare Subsidy, Student Government Engagement and Success (SGES)

As a graduate student you are eligible to apply for Child Care Subsidy, subsidy@uoregon.edu

Forms are also available in their office in the EMU. They can provide you with a list of approved providers. However, getting evening Child Care can be a bit more tricky. Graduate Student Assistance Fund – Financial assistance for graduate students with a new child, childcare expenses for a new child, a medical issue, or other qualifying event.

  • ASUO Childcare Subsidy – An incidental fee funded program which reimburses 20-50% of the cost of childcare expenses for student parents.
  • Oregon Office of Student Access and Completion (OSAC) https://app.oregonstudentaid.gov/
  • Co-Op Family Center – Independent, nonprofit co-operative childcare center for children aged eight weeks to ten years. Student families receive priority and a tuition discount.
  • Moss Street Children’s Center – run though Erb Memorial Student Union, serves children three months through third grade. Student families receive priority and a tuition discount.
  • Vivian Olum Child Development Center – run through Human Resources, offers faculty and staff families priority, but serves some student families and offers a tuition discount to all UO-affiliated families. Serves children eight weeks through fifth grade.
  • Community Childcare Providers – Search for childcare providers or community resources such as legal assistance, renter resources, help with food security, veterans issues, or inability to pay bills. Plus more!
  • Parent & Family Help Line: 541-346-3234

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