During academic year 2025, Fort Lewis College's Office of Student Well-Being distributed 96,364 pounds of food, provided housing assistance to 113 students, and supported 134 SNAP cases. Student Well-Being helps students meet basic needs, find stable housing, and connect with benefits and community resources.
Reporting period: Academic year 2025 (August 2024–July 2025). Percentage changes are compared with the academic year 2024 unless otherwise noted.
How we count services
- Visits: The number of times individuals visit the Grub Hub. Visitors are encouraged to record their visits at the self-checkout station, but check-in is not required.
- Students served: The number of individual students requesting a particular support service.
- Cases: Applications or records opened to support an individual with a particular service. A student may have multiple cases for different services or for requests made at different times.
Visits, students served, and cases measure different types of service use. One student may visit multiple times or receive more than one type of assistance.
Food assistance
The Grub Hub provides food assistance through its pantry, hot meals, meal swipes, and other programs.
- 23,275 food pantry visits (up 18%)
- 96,364 pounds of food distributed (up 9%)
- 22,500 hot meals served (up 13%)
- 2,150 meal swipes awarded (up 3%)
- 910 veggie grab bags distributed (up 16%)
- 1,124 new visitors (up 4%)
Grub Hub pantry inventory
- 54% of purchased food was culturally relevant (up 1%).
- 75% of purchased food was produced locally, within 100 miles (up 10%).
- 100% of pantry inventory funding came from grants and donors.
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Housing assistance
The Housing Assistance Program served 113 individual students (up 22%). Students may receive more than one type of assistance, so the following categories are not mutually exclusive:
- 42 students requested housing search guidance.
- 20 students needed temporary housing.
- 81 students requested financial assistance.
The program closed 112 cases:
- 90 cases closed because students were stable and no longer needed assistance.
- 2 cases involved students who withdrew from FLC due in whole or in part to financial challenges.
- 1 case involved a student who transferred elsewhere due in whole or in part to financial challenges.
- 19 cases closed after students became unresponsive.
Temporary housing
- 100% of students in need of temporary housing were housed within 24 hours.
- Students needed temporary housing for an average of 11 nights (down 57%).
- 100% exited temporary housing within two months (up 20%).
Financial assistance
- The average total award per student was $2,160.75 (up 162%).
- 81 students requested help with rent (up 69%).
- 2 students requested help with utilities (down 33%).
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Resource navigation
Student Well-Being helps students access public benefits and connect with support services.
- 134 SNAP cases (down 25%)
- 38 Medicaid cases (down 14%)
Community outreach
- 7 SNAP navigators
- 2 Medicaid navigators
- 29 outreach events
- 4 satellite pantries
- 10 local, state, and national coalitions
Student success and well-being
Student Well-Being tracks academic outcomes for students who use its services. The following data compares the average cumulative GPA in fall 2024 and persistence from fall 2024 to fall 2025.
Persistence includes students who graduated or were retained.
Academic outcomes for students using Student Well-Being services
| Program |
Average cumulative GPA (fall 2024) |
Persistence rate (fall 2024–fall 2025) |
| Grub Hub |
3.07 |
82% |
| Housing Assistance Program |
3.05 |
78% |
| Meal Swipes |
3.24 |
66% |
| Peer Support Office |
3.12 |
58% |
| WellPAC Programming |
3.18 |
77% |
| Person of Concern |
2.47 |
42% |
| Overall FLC |
3.08 |
74% |
These figures describe academic outcomes among students using each service. They do not establish that participation caused differences in GPA or persistence.
Training and case management
Student Well-Being offers training, education, and case management to help students and employees recognize challenges and connect with resources.
- 800 Community of Care attendees
- 377 attendees at other Student Well-Being trainings, including QPR, You Can Help a Student, Boundaries, and Active Bystander (up 46%)
- 234 Behavioral Intervention Team cases
- 236 Person of Concern reports
Training outcomes
- 100% of QPR participants rated their knowledge of suicide intervention as medium or high after completing the training.
- 91% of You Can Help a Student participants agreed or strongly agreed that they would know how to help a student who disclosed that they were considering suicide.
- 83% of You Can Help a Student participants agreed or strongly agreed that they would feel comfortable supporting a student experiencing mental health challenges.
WellPAC and peer support
WellPAC and Peer Support provide programming, resources, and opportunities for students to connect with campus support services.
- 1,794 WellPAC program attendees (up 26%)
- 2,682 products distributed through the WellPAC Wellness Station (up 287%)
- 143 naloxone boxes distributed (down 28%)
- 668 fentanyl test strips distributed (up 4%)
- 113 Peer Support sessions (up 2%)
WellPAC participant feedback
Students reported that WellPAC programs helped them:
Student feedback on WellPAC programs
| Program outcome |
Strongly agreed |
Agreed |
Somewhat agreed |
| Increase their sense of belonging |
52% |
34% |
11% |
| Learn where to refer a friend who needs support |
45% |
38% |
13% |
| Connect with resources |
49% |
40% |
5% |
Grub Hub and local producers
Grub Hub buys food from producers near campus. Student Well-Being defines “local” as within 100 miles as the crow flies, which includes portions of neighboring states and tribal lands.
The following historical figures provide additional context about Grub Hub's food purchasing:
- Grub Hub spent 4.2 times as much on local food in 2024 as in 2023.
- After hiring a Cultural Food Access Coordinator, spending on culturally relevant foods tripled in 2024.
Share of Grub Hub food purchasing by fiscal year
| Fiscal year |
Local producers |
Culturally relevant foods |
USDA socially disadvantaged farmers |
| FY23 |
62% |
16% |
22% |
| FY24 |
57% |
10.7% |
32% |
| FY25 |
62% |
6.5% |
30% |
The USDA defines socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers as farmers who are Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Hispanic or Latino, or Asian or Pacific Islander. The category also includes women.
About these measures: The fiscal-year purchasing figures above and the academic-year pantry inventory figures reported earlier may use different reporting periods or calculation methods. They should not be treated as directly comparable until the methodology is confirmed.
How Student Well-Being is funded
Student Well-Being receives support from general funds, student activity fees, grants, donors, and Registered Student Organization (RSO) funds.
The overall budget breakdown reported for the academic year 2025 was:
- 37.2% grants
- 33.7% general funds
- 22.6% student activity fees
- 4.6% donor funds
- 1.9% RSO funds
Percentages are rounded and may not total exactly 100%.
Funding supports staffing, programming, and services such as food assistance, housing support, harm reduction, and personal care resources.
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