Childcare and Community Services

• Consultation: SPS provides consultation in finding services that provide resources and/or support for children and families.

Individual Consultation

- SPS provides individual resource and referral consultation to student parents and liaison services on campus and in the community to assist student parents in their search and selection of child care and community resources.

• Child Care Cooperative

- New online registration access comming soon

- The Child Care Cooperative is a networking service that links student parents interested in exchanging childcare, forming single parent and neighborhood networks, and carpooling & house sharing.

• Forums: Presentations that address child and family issues.

• Parenting Support Groups

Smith Memorial Student Union(Room 124)
1825 S.W. Broadway
P.O. Box 751-SPS
Portland, OR
97207-0751
Phone Number: (503) 725-5655

Financial Assistance

• Jim Sells Child Care Assistance Program
Phone Number: (503) 725-5655

- Provides child care assistance in the form of two-term subsidies to low-income student parent families using off-campus child care.

• Ron Ronacher Student Parent Emergency Loan Program
Phone Number: (503) 725-5655

- Provides $50.00 zero-interest emergency loans to student parents experiencing financial hardship.