CalWORKS: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids
The CalWORKS program assists welfare recipient students and those students in transition off of welfare to achieve long-term self-sufficiency.
Visit CALWORKSDisability Resource Center (The DRC)
The DRC offers a variety of services and equipment to help students function effectively and enable them to participate in the regular college curriculum.
Visit the Disability Resource CenterDreamers Success Center
The Dreamer Success Program is committed to providing a safe and caring space where undocumented students have access to diverse, equitable, accessible, inclusive and anti-racist educational opportunities. The purpose of the program is to share knowledge, teach college skills, and build social capital. Through these actions of support, each student will facilitate their own path to their academic and life goals.
Visit the Dreamer CenterEOPS and CARE
EOPS is a state-funded program designed for the orientation, recruitment and retention of California residents who are economically, socially, and educationally disadvantaged.
CARE, an extension of EOPS is to help provide educational opportunities and job experience for persons currently receiving TANF/CalWORKS (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).
Visit EOPS Visit CAREFYRST: Foster Youth Retention Success and Transition
Created to promote equal opportunities and access to resources for current and former foster youth students. To initiate services, new FYRST students must first attend a FYRST Orientation and see the Foster Youth Counselor.
Visit FYRSTNorth County Educational Opportunity Center (NCEOC)
The program is designed to identify and assist adult participants who want to enter, re-enter, continue, or enroll in a program of post-secondary education.
Visit NCEOCPalomar Promise
The Palomar Promise program is a comprehensive student success program geared towards increasing the college-going and completion rates of first-time college students and helping to ensure their success. The Palomar Promise offers up to two years of free tuition (fall/spring), textbook assistance, and access to specialized academic and career planning with related support services to first-time college students who meet the eligibility requirements. Palomar Promise is funded using a combination of state, federal and local funding resources.
Visit Palomar PromisePride Center
In keeping with Palomar College’s commitment to create a safe campus, the Pride Center exists, within the oversight of the PC3H, to provide a space for members of the college community to explore issues relating to sexual and gender identities, practices, and politics. The Center offers LGBTQ students and staff a secure place to study, converse, explore, and join in common celebration of their experience. It also promotes student leadership, professional and academic equity, and visibility of gender and sexual minorities in addition to providing educational resources and programs for the LGBTQ and Allies community. We value intersectionality and racial and economic justice and support other campus groups in striving towards such justice. While the Center welcomes all Palomar students and staff regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, it serves first and foremost as a Safe Zone for the campus LGBTQ community.
Visit Pride CenterPuente Program
Students in the Puente Program come from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds and are usually the first in their families to attend college. Puente has helped thousands of students transfer to a university, earn degrees, and return to the community as leaders and mentors.
Learn about the Puente ProgramRising Scholars
The program encompasses two components: classes that take place at the Vista Detention Facility and an on-campus program. At the Vista Detention Facility, Palomar professors teach credit courses to currently incarcerated students. On campus, formerly incarcerated students can join the program anytime and join a thriving community of people liberating themselves through education. The program has a dedicated space on the Palomar College San Marcos campus where students can get a snack and take a breather between classes, peer mentor support, meet with staff, use computers for schoolwork, and more.
Visit Rising ScholarsTRIO/Student Support Services
TRIO is a federally funded program that is designed to provide educational support and services to students of first generation, low-income, and disabled backgrounds to assist them in entering and completing post-secondary education.
Visit TRIOUmoja
Umoja is a community and critical resource dedicated to enhancing the cultural and educational experiences of African American and other students.
Visit UMOJAUpward Bound
Upward Bound, an extension of TRIO, serves students from North County High Schools who are high-potential 4-year-college bound students.
Visit Upward BoundVeterans Resource Center
We provide assistance to veterans who are using VA Education Benefits as well as offer veteran counseling appointments, mental health resources, community resources, computer use, free Veteran printing, and a Veterans’ lounge.
Visit the Veterans Resource Center