St. John's Cares about Your Basic Needs

As a Catholic and Vincentian university deeply concerned about the health and wellness of our students, St. John’s University cares about you and your ability to meet your basic needs. It is very important that we understand how widespread food and housing insecurity is among our students, and that we continue to identify relevant and useful ways to address these issues.

If you have concerns about meeting your daily basic needs, please see the information below and/or fill out the Basic Needs Information Request Form. Requests may be submitted by all current St. John’s graduate and undergraduate students, including our international students, regardless of citizenship status.  

Please note that any “St. John’s Cares About Your Basic Needs” funding, if awarded, is not considered a loan and does not need to be repaid. However, these funds are only available during the semester. The request link is currently closed to submissions. It will reopen with the start of the Spring semester (Thursday, January 28, 2021).

The Office of Student Financial Services is available to answer your questions on the Queens and Staten Island campuses. Please contact the office at (718) 990-2000 or [email protected] .

For any courses that you are taking at St. John’s, you may want to contact our Open Educational Resources librarians to connect you with possible free non-textbook options. Unfortunately, the majority of course “textbooks” cannot be made available online through the library at this time. However, some professors assign non-textbook readings and resources.