University of California, Los Angeles
PA-8: Affordability and Access

UC's Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan will cover your systemwide fees if you are a California resident whose family earns less than $60,000 a year ($70,000 beginning in 2010-11) and you qualify for financial aid. And this is just the starting point, Blue and Gold students with sufficient financial need can qualify for even more grant aid to help reduce the cost of attending. https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/types-of-aid/blue-and-gold-opportunity-plan.html

The goal of the Bruin Resource Center (BRC) is to provide students with services, workshops, programs, and academic curriculum that develop skills around self-empowerment, decision making, leadership, stress and conflict management, understanding diversity, and creating support networks. At the institutional level, the BRC also engages in advocacy for policy changes and shifts in campus culture in line with its mission. Within its overarching goals, the BRC has three main functions. The first main function of the BRC is to offer personal success and academic persistence programs to support undocumented students, current and former foster youth students, student veterans, transfer students, and students with dependents. The second main function of the BRC is to provide health education to the campus community that promotes awareness of positive behaviors regarding stress management, emotional intelligence, body image, food/nutrition, and alcohol. The third main function of the BRC is to address principles of community and campus climate through identity development and dialogue between diverse groups. https://www.brc.ucla.edu/

UCLA's Community Programs Office also provides critical resources supporting academic success and basic needs for all students with an emphasis on first generation college students. The mission of the Community Programs Office, UCLA’s cross-cultural center, is to build and nurture an inclusive and diverse community of scholars and leaders who are committed to giving back to historically marginalized communities by engaging, educating, and empowering students to develop and execute student-initiated, student-run outreach, service and retention programs.

We are committed to developing a new generation of dynamic leaders by shaping our students to become motivated, responsible, and critically conscious individuals and fostering a safe and positive environment where students can use their education as a vehicle for social change through direct action in the community.
http://www.cpo.ucla.edu/cpo/