Resources

    • Graduate Reading and Study Skills Program (GRASSP): Offers graduate students one-on-one tutoring appointments with a trained graduate student tutor. Tutors can help you read difficult articles, structure your papers, take effective notes and other graduate level study skills. 

    • University Libraries: Book an appointment with a subject librarian trained specifically to help students in your department. University Libraries also has microcourses, guides and workshops to help students with graduate level work. 

    • The Graduate College: Offers several different academic and social resources for students, which can be found on their webpage.

    • The Writing Center: Offers one-on-one writing support to help you in every stage of the writing process.  

    • WMU Invisible Need Project: Broncos. Period: Provides menstrual hygiene products for any menstruating WMU student.  This includes single-use, long-term, and sustainable options, when possible at low or no cost. 

    • Kalamazoo Free Store: A place where all people are welcome and all items are available completely free of charge. The Free Store of Kalamazoo will redistribute clothing and household goods donated by the community to the community for free. 

    • Portage Community Outreach Center: Can help Portage residents with food and clothing, evictions and utility shut-offs, personal care items, prescription assistance, transportation, resumes, free legal clinics, WIC, immunizations, vision/hearing test, free tax preparation and more. 

    • YWCA Domestic Assault: YWCA Kalamazoo provides individuals and families with victim-focused counseling and advocacy services as well as shelter for survivors of violence, transitional housing, and legal services. Counselors/Advocates are also available to assist clients in writing Personal Protection Orders, develop safety options, accompany one to court, and provide referrals to other social service agencies. Additionally, they advocate for clients with landlords, employers, police, prosecutors and other agency workers when needed. 

    • S.A.F.E. Place: S.A.F.E. Place provides shelter, court advocacy, PPO assistance, referrals and comprehensive counseling programs for victims of domestic violence at no cost. 

    • Domestic Violence Coalition: The Domestic Violence Coalition (DVC) provides free services to residents of Van Buren County who have been affected by the crimes of domestic and sexual violence. 

    • Drop-in Child Care Center: Free part-time childcare for income-eligible people with children ages 6 weeks - five years.  

    • WIC: The WIC program provides nutrition education, one-on-one counseling about nutrition, monthly food benefits, support and help with breastfeeding, referrals to health care, immunizations and other programs.  

    • YWCA Edison Children's Center: Affordable local childcare, including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift care and 24-hour drop-in services. Use the children’s center interest form to be added to the waitlist.  

    • Child Care Resources: Comprehensive list of local childcare providers.   

    • Integrated Services of Kalamazoo: Offers services for children with behavioral difficulties and intellectual/developmental disabilities.  

    • Community Healing Center: Child and family therapy and other services related to abuse, addiction, and behavioral and mental health disorders. 

    • Financial Aid: Information on how to apply for student loans and find scholarships and funding within the university.  

    • GradSense: Many great articles on how to manage your finances.   

    • Kalamazoo Community Foundation: Offers scholarships for Kalamazoo County Residents.   

    • The Graduate College: Has information on scholarships, assistantships, grants and other funding opportunities for graduate students.   

    • Graduate Student Association: Offers Certification, Data Collection, and Conference grants for graduate students.   

    • Student Emergency Relief Fund: Can help you cover unexpected expenses.   

    • Books For Broncos: The Essential Needs Project works to assist students with accessing free or low-cost options for course materials, including textbooks and other required course materials.  

    • MI Bridges: Has expanded its resources so now even more students qualify. MI Bridges allows you to apply for benefits related to healthcare coverage, food assistance, cash assistance, child development and care, state emergency relief and more.   

    • Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan: Offers a variety of services, including emergency utility bill assistance, rental assistance, textbook and tuition assistance, and more.   

    • WMU Campus Housing: Offers a variety of apartment options for graduate students.    

    • Housing Resources Inc.: Resource to help you find affordable off campus housing in the Kalamazoo area.  

    • Open Doors Kalamazoo: Building a community of people who are overcoming homelessness through relationships, housing, employment, education, and sobriety.   

    • Kalamazoo Collective Housing: Offering permanently affordable, democratically controlled rental housing, Kalamazoo Collective Housing operates group cooperatives and single-family apartments.   

    • Portage Community Outreach Center: Can help Portage residents with evictions and utility shut offs. 

    • Community Homeworks: Provides free plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and structural issues for low-income homeowners in Kalamazoo County.  

    • KNHS: Offers resources and information to help Kalamazoo residents buy a home, repair their home or avoid foreclosure. 

    • WMU International Student and Scholar Services: Assists international students in gaining meaningful academic and socio-cultural experiences while studying and living within WMU's campus community and the southwest Michigan community-at-large.  

    • WMU Study Abroad Office: Offering financial aid resources, safety information, tools for incoming international students and more. 

    • International Student Council: The ISC offers programming and a community for International Students to come together and make a difference on campus. They host the International Bazaar every spring.  

    • Kalamazoo Defender: Provides constitutionally guaranteed representation to citizens charged with a crime who cannot afford an attorney.   

    • Legal Aid of Western Michigan: A nonprofit law firm providing free legal advice and representation in a broad range of areas including consumer cases, family matters, housing problems, government benefits and more.  

    • Kalamazoo County Bar Association: The Law Library, in partnership with the Kalamazoo County Bar Association, offers free monthly legal clinics at the Central Library, Powell Branch Library, and the Portage Community Center. 

    • Sindecuse Health Center: Offers short-term individual, couples’ and group counseling for any WMU student. Every student gets 8 free individual sessions a year.  

    • WMU Health Promotion and Education: Offers programming and individual support for various issues that may come up in a student’s life.  

    • WMU Centers for Counseling and Psychological Services: Trained graduate student counselors offer free counseling and psychological services to children, adolescents and adults in Southwest Michigan.  

    • Integrated Services of Kalamazoo: Any individual who needs help with mental illness, developmental disabilities, emotional difficulties, or substance use issues may be eligible for services or community referrals.  

    • Gryphon Place: The leading agency for suicide prevention in the area. They offer several suicide prevention resources, including the 24/7 helpline, The Gatekeeper Program, and a survivors of suicide loss support group. 

    • Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services: The center is designed to provide immediate assessment and treatment for adults aged 18-65 experiencing acute psychiatric symptoms who cannot wait for routine outpatient intervention. 

    • 211: 211 is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to connect you with help of all kinds. 

    • WMU Disability Services for Students: The vision for DSS is to guide the institution into universal design of facilities, programs and activities so that there is opportunity and encouragement for full participation by a diverse student body, including those with disabilities.   

    • Kalamazoo County Veteran Services Office: The Kalamazoo County Veterans Service Office is committed to providing services and assistance to those men and women who have honorably served their country. It is our privilege to guarantee that veterans will receive, and are informed of, all federal, state or county benefits to which they and their dependents may be entitled free of charge. 

    • Outfront Kalamazoo (LGBTQ): OutFront Kalamazoo provides programs and services for youth and adults such as peer support groups, social events, educational resources and more. We also organize and mobilize individuals and organizations so that together we may advance social justice and achieve equity and inclusion for the LGBTQ+ community. 

    • The Arc Community Advocates: We exist as an advocacy organization to make it possible for each person with a developmental disability to participate fully in all aspects of the community and to support the effort of everyone to determine their own future.