Personal Counseling
Confidential Counseling Services are available free of charge to help you manage your stresses and challenges.
Health, Wellness, and Basic Needs
Your health and well-being play an important role in your college experience. We provide health and wellness resources and education to promote your mental, physical, and emotional health.
We're Here for You.
We’re here to help connect you with resources to overcome insecurity and hardship involving food, housing, transportation, and other basic needs. We can assist you with things like:
- Applying for public benefit programs
- "Help a Hawk" emergency cash grants
- Housing and utility assistance
- Other community or public support
If you have additional needs or you would like more information about local resources, please send a request to hawksgethelp@csmd.edu. Please be sure to include your student identification number and contact information.
Campus Resources
Hawk Pantries
Hawk Pantries are opportunity for students experiencing food insecurity to receive safely stored canned and packaged food items at no cost, at on-campus locations.
Â鶹ֱ²¥ Connector Bus
Â鶹ֱ²¥ Connector, operated by VanGO, provides free bus service between the tri-county transportation hub in Charlotte Hall, the Regional Hughesville and La Plata campuses.
Heroin and Opioid Addiction, Prevention, and Training
Â鶹ֱ²¥ is committed to educating students about the dangers of heroin and opioid addiction.
On-Campus Access to Health and Wellness Items
Â鶹ֱ²¥ offers access to health and wellness items through campus vending machines, including over-the-counter contraception, pain relievers, and tech accessories.
Pregnancy and Parenting Support
Â鶹ֱ²¥ guarantees equal educational access for all students, including those experiencing pregnancy, as well as parenting students. Learn about your rights under Title IX, request reasonable academic adjustments, find campus family facilities, and connect with Â鶹ֱ²¥ staff.
View Your Rights and Student Resources
Lactation and Nursing Spaces
Lactation areas at our four campuses offer working and student mothers private, clean, and calm places to pump breast milk or nurse a baby. All lactation spaces are cleaned daily, and hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes allow mothers to clean before and after their personal use.
La Plata Campus:
- (open access)
- Mamava Lactation Pod:
Prince Frederick Campus:
- Mamava Lactation Pod:
Leonardtown Campus:
- Mamava Lactation Pod:
Regional Hughesville Campus:
- (open access)
Velocity Center:
- Mamava Lactation Pod:
How to Access Mamava Pods:
Download the Mamava app from your app store to unlock a pod when you're nearby. You can also reserve a time in advance—convenient, private, and easy to use.
Community Resources
General Assistance
Bill Assistance
Home Mortgage or Rental Assistance
Food Assistance
- (Pay half-price for groceries; Local sites in Accokeek, La Plata, and Owings)
General Assistance
- (DSS Referral Required)
- (Homelessness assistance; no funding for financial assistance)
- (Homeless Shelter) - Prince Frederick, MD
Rental/Utility/Mortgage Assistance
- SMILE Ecumenical Ministries: 410-326-0009
- Calvert Community Ministry: 410-414-8007
- Mortgage, The HOPE Initiative: 877-462-7555
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington D.C.: 301-274-0695
- On Our Own of Calvert: 410-535-7576
Food Assistance
- Bayside Baptist Church (Chesapeake Beach): 410-257-0712
- Brooks Church Pantry (St. Leonard): 410-586-3972
- Calvert Churches Community Food Pantry (Prince Frederick): 410-414-7474
- Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry (Huntingtown): 410-257-0293
- Crossroads Christian Church (St. Leonard): 410-586-1272
- Department of Social Services (Apply for SNAP benefits): 443-550-6900
- Emmanuel 7th Day Adventist Pantry (St. Leonard): 410-586-0889
- Randle Cliffs Community Church (Chesapeake Beach): 410-257-0342
- SMILE (Lusby): 410-326-0009
- St. Anthony's Church, Ladies of Charity (North Beach): 410-286-7086
- St. John Vianney (Prince Frederick): 410-257-3030
General Assistance
Homeless Services/Shelters
- Robert J. Fuller House: 301-645-2933
- Angel Watch Shelter- 301-274-0680
Rent and Utilities Assistance
- Southern Maryland Tri-County Community Action: 301-274-4474
- Salvation Army: 301-638-9532
- Interfaith Community Connections: 301-374-9028
- La Plata United Methodist Church: 301-934-2288
- Catholic Charities: 202-772-4300
- Community Support Systems: 301-372-1491
- Neighbors Eager to Serve: 301-375-8576
- Waldorf Jaycees: 301-645-4546
- Marbury Baptist Church (Indian Head and Marbury residents only): 301-743-3701
- Neighbors Eager to Serve (NETS)(Western Charles County only): 301-375-8576
- Charles County Children's Aid Society: 301-645-1561
Housing Search Resources/Strategies
- Charles County Dept. of Community Services: Housing Services 301-934-0112
- Southern Maryland Tri-County Community Action (ask for housing counselor): 301-274-4474
- (an ADW program): 301-493-6000
Food Assistance
- Indian Head: Star of the Sea Pantry, St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, 30 Mattingly Ave., 301-743-9471
- La Plata: Mary’s/Loretta’s Food Pantry (please call first) Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 201 St. Mary’s Ave., 301-934-2261
- Christ Church, 112 East Charles Street (Friday 9-11 a.m.) 301-392-1051; New Life Church 9690 Shepards Creek (Monday 4-6 p.m.)
- Nanjemoy: Community food Pantry: Joe’s Place (every Thursday night from 5-7 p.m.), Christ Episcopal Church, 8700 Ironsides Rd., 301-542-6380
- Newburg: Wayside Food Bank, Inc., Holy Ghost Catholic Church, 15848 Rock Point Road, 301-259-2493
- Waldorf: St Vincent de Paul Food Pantry of St Peter’s Church (located in St Peter’s school), 3310 St Peter’s Drive, 301-932-7713
- Waldorf: Peace Lutheran Church Food Pantry (for Waldorf, White Plains, Bryantown), 1st and 3rd Saturday or 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at 401 E. Smallwood Drive; 301-843-1832
- Waldorf: Charles County Children’s Aid Society, 3000 Huntington Circle, 301-645-1561
- Pomfret: St. Joseph Food Pantry, 4590 Joseph Way, 301-539-3903
- Food Stamps (SNAP) apply at the Charles County Department of Social Services (DSS): 200 Kent Avenue, La Plata, MD; 301-392-6400
General Assistance
Rent/Mortgage/Utility Assistance
- Zion United Methodist Church (rent/utilities): 301-863-5161
- St. John’s Charitable Society: 240-577-5596
Food Assistance
- 301-737-2870
- St. Cecilia Catholic Church: 301-862-4600
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church: 301-863-8193
- Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Church: 301-884-2502
- Helping Hands: 301-247-2785
- First Saints Community Church: 301-475-7200
- Lexington Park Baptist Church: 301-863-8500
- Trinity Lutheran: 301-863-9512
- Zion United Methodist Church: 301-863-5161
- WIC: 877-631-6182
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