Campus Social Worker Consultations
Experiencing financial stress, food/housing insecurity, and other stressors and want support and guidance?
Do you have additional basic needs questions or need help navigating campus and community resource?
Our Basic Needs Center Social Workers team can help!
Note: Consults are for NEW students who are not connected to a Campus Social Worker. For continuity of support, your Consultation may be cancelled if you previously worked with another Campus Social Worker (click here for our staff). Please contact your assigned CSW directly to schedule follow-up appointments.
For all general inquiries, please email: basicneeds@uci.edu
Basic Needs Consults
Meet Peter!
Our Basic Needs Consultations are led by Peter Thach—a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. He is also a UC Irvine alum and completed his Master of Social Work from USC. Peter has previously worked as a therapist and clinical social worker in school-based mental health settings and at UCI Pediatrics.
Peter can help you with… Basic needs issues (food insecurity, housing insecurity, homelessness, financial concerns), supports, and supplemental work being done at the Basic Needs Center.
Housing Support Consults
Meet Christy!
Our Housing Support Consultations are led by Christy Molino—a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. She is a University of Notre Dame alum and completed her Master of Social Work from USC. Christy has previously worked as a clinical social worker and case manager in a local psychiatric hospital.
Christy can help you with… Rapid rehousing, supporting homeless and housing-insecure students by securing long-term, permanent housing.