Disability and Wellness Resources

  • SAS

    SAS provides individualized accessibility services for students with disabilities. This includes academic accommodations, programming, and additional support services. 

    Location: MUSC B101

    Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 430 PM

    Phone: 905-525-9140 ext 98652

    Email: sas@mcmaster.ca

  • CATS

    The Campus Accessible Tech Space (CATS) seeks to provide equitable resources, facilities, and services to foster dignity and independence for members of McMaster University. The CATS space is only available to students registered with SAS. A keycard must be requested for access. 

    Location: Mills Library L212

    Hours: Same as Mills Library

    Phone: 905-525-9140, ext. 26058

  • Student Case Management

    The Student Case Management (SCM) provides support to students throughout their time at university, providing resources to manage issues as well as crisis prevention and intervention for students. The SOM provides students in distress with an additional layer of support through case management services.

    Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 am. to 4:30 p.m.

    Phone: 905-525-9140, ext. 20220

    Email: som@mamaster.ca

  • Maccess

    Maccess is a peer support, advocacy, and community centre for students who experience disability, chronic illness, mental health concerns, or inaccessibility.

    Location: McMaster University Student Centre B111

    Hours: Mondays, Wadnesdays, and Fridays, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

    Phone: 905-525-9140 ext 98652

    Email: macess@msumcmaster.ca

  • Student Wellness Centre

    Student Wellness Centre

    The Student Wellness Centre is the place on campus to address your wellness needs. They provide a range of counselling options, medical services, and wellness programs so that you can get the most out of your McMaster experience, academically and personally!

    Location: Peter George Centre for Living and Learning 210/201

    Hours: Monday to Thursday, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Friday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

    Phone: 905-525-9140 ext 222700

    Email: wellness@hmcmaster.ca

  • TalkSpot

    TalkSpot is a mental health service exclusively for McMaster University Faculty of Engineering students. TalkSpot offers informal confidential consultations with a counsellor through drop in hours

    Location: MUSC B101

Academic Resources

  • Academic Advising

    Academic Advising supports students as they develop individualized paths through curriculum, allowing students to meet their academic, personal, and professional goals. Academic advisors can help students navigate the academic experience and support them as they make decisions about their program and their future.

    Location: Gerald Hatch Centre 301

    Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

    Email: engserv@mcmaster.ca

  • Equity and Inclusion Office

    The Equity and Inclusion Office (BIO) is a central resource where expertise is proactively drawn upon by administrators, faculty, staff, and students: to advance unit-specific and institutional equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility goal; to enact inclusive excellence principles and to establish respectful living, leaning, and working environments that are free from harassment and discrimination, and sexual violence including through timely and procedurally fair investigative and alternative dispute resolution processes.

    Location: University Hall 104

    Phone: 905-525-9140 ext 27581

    Email: equity@mcmaster.ca

  • Student Success Centre

    The Student Success Centre (SSC) champions a holistic support model that respects students' positionally and intersectionality. They encourage students to holistically approach their learning by bringing in their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual selves, identifying where they are in their unique journey and supporting them through programming, services, events and strategic connections with our campus partners across the university.

    Location: Gilmore Hall 11Q, McMaster University Student Centre 8118, 212, Mills Library L215

    Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 400 PM

    Phone: 905-525-9140 est. 20960 (Gilmore Hall 110), 27874 (Student Centre B118)

    Email: studentsuccess@mcmaster.ca