• Dental Care 

  • • Valley Dentist

    • Amherst Dental Group

    • Aspen Dental

• Eye Care

  • • Visionworks 

    • Eye Physicians of Northampton 

• Primary Care

  • • Amherst Medical Associates

    • Cooley Dickinson Healthcare

• Urgent Care

  • • MedExpress, AEIOU Urgent Care

• Pharmacies

  • • CVS Pharmacy -- 2 within immediate campus area

    • Target Pharmacy

    • Walmart Pharmacy

    • Stop & Shop Pharmacy

• Mental Health

  • • Amherst Psychiatry -- Medication Management 

    • Several Independent Practitioners 

    • Faculty/Staff Assistance Program -- university provided mental health practitioners 

• Amherst Market

• Aster & Pine Market

• Trader Joe's

• Whole Foods

• Aldi

• Tran's World Food Market 

• Mom's House Grocery Store

• Stop & Shop

• Big Y

• Target 

• Seasonal Weekend Farmer's Market -- Downtown Green

• Chipotle -- Tex Mex Quick Serve

• La Veracruzana -- Traditional Mexican 

• Mission Cantina -- Mexican 

• Bueno y Sano -- Fresh, "Healthy" Mexican

• El Comalito -- El Salvadorian 

• Familiar's Coffee 

• The Roost

• Amherst Coffee

• Cushman's Market and Cafe

• Esselon Cafe

• Black Sheep 

• Florence Pie Bar -- Desserts

• Flayvor's Icecream -- Farm Side Icecream 

• Herell's Icecream and Bakery

• GoBerry -- Frozen Yogurt 

• The Stables Restaurant

• Jake's Restaurant

• Johnny's Roadside Diner -- Open for Lunch & Dinner, Breakfast served all day

• Esselon Cafe -- Breakfast & Lunch

• Cushman's Market & Cafe -- Breakfast & Lunch

• Black Presence at UMass

  • A living history of the experiences, contributions, and stories of Black students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

• UMass Faculty and Staff of Color Network: Contact Erika Dawson-Head and Sid Ferreira

  • Fostering connections and developing community for employees from underrepresented groups at UMass Amherst, and promoting an inclusive work environment.

• Black-Owned Businesses

  • Gardening the Community Farm/Store (Springfield)

  • The Souper Sweet Sandwich Shop (Springfield)

  • Chef Wayne's Big Mamou (Springfield)

  • Khi and Eli's (Springfield)

  • Soulao'd Kitchen (Springfield)

  • Yaad Food (Springfield)

  • Wing Madness (Springfield)

  • Wings and Wafflez (Springfield)

  • Garden of Eat'n (Springfield)

  • Granny's Baking Table (Springfield)

  • Chick E. D's: Chicken and Grill (Springfield)

  • Iona's Cafe & Grill (South Hadley)

  • Try me Too (Springfield)

  • White Lion (Bar-Springfield)

  • Smokey Joe's cigar lounge (Springfield)

  • Bumpy's Natural and Organic foods (Springfield)

  • Crispy's Wings-N-Fish (Springfield)

  • Hot Oven Cookies (Holyoke)

  • Auntie Elsies Oatmeal Crisps (Belchertown)

  • Hazel's Blue Lagoon (Amherst)

  • Gipsy Apple (Shellburne Falls)

  • Smokey Divas (Pittsfield)

  • 92nd Sauce Caterer (Pittsfield)

  • Mad Jacks BBQ (Lanesborough)

  • D and G Jamaican Cuisine (Springfield)

  • Chef Wayne's Big Mamou (Springfield)

  • Hummingbird Restaurants (Springfield)

  • The Parlorfaded Company - Barbershop (Holyoke)

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. We embrace disability as a natural part of diversity and seek to build capacity to appreciate and value individual differences, including differences in ability, to create inclusive community.

We are fully committed to to providing full and equal access to information and services for all current and potential members of our community. For more information on our accessibility practices, and where you can go for assistance and support, please review the resources below.

Campus Services

Assistive Technology Center
The Assistive Technology Center (ATC), located on the Lower Level of the W.E.B. DuBois Library in the Learning Commons, offers instruction, training, and support for assistive technology tools to any member of the University community.  The ATC provides a workspace and access to specialized software, equipment, and tools to improve the campus experience for the entire campus community. Email atc@umass.edu for more information.

Accessible Van Service
Provides rides to eligible passengers to better navigate the UMass Amherst campus. Call (413) 545-2086.

Accessible Workplace
The Accessible Workplace unit within the Office of Equal Opportunity and Access (EOA) of Human Resources is responsible for administering reasonable workplace accommodations for faculty and staff through an interactive process. Call (413) 545-3464.

Accessibility Map
A campus map detailing building access levels, accessible restrooms, and elevators created in collaboration between the Alliance Against Ableism and the Campus Planning Team.

Dining Nutrition
Registered dieticians work with students to ensure dietary needs are met. Call (413) 577-5101.

Disability Services
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is committed to being a destination of choice for individuals of all ability levels. Disability Services provides direct services to students for all types of disability, information and referral on issues of accessibility, as well as training and staff development to the University community.

Instructional Innovation
There’s a lot you can do to make your course materials, websites, and media more accessible to people with different abilities, including vision, hearing, learning abilities, cognitive needs, mobility, speech,  and combinations of these. Instructional Innovation regularly offers workshops on a variety of accessibility topics.

IT Accessibility Resources
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Information Technologies is committed to providing information and resources that support our institutional goals of accessibility. Please visit this webpage to learn about resources and support in the areas of websites and web-based software, multimedia, electronic documents, electronic instructional materials, classroom delivery techniques and considerations, and more.

Psychological Services Center
The Psychological Services Center offers a full range of psychological services from therapy to learning disability and ADHD testing. Call (413) 545-0041.

University Health Services
Provides a variety of health services including health advice, same day appointments, and urgent care. 

Web Accessibility
In order to meet its values of diversity and inclusiveness, UMass Amherst is committed to making its website accessible to all. To learn about our institutional commitment to web accessibility and to ensure that your UMass webpage is accessible, please use the information and resources provided.

Culture and Advocacy Groups

Access UMass
Access UMass traditionally meets on Fridays on Zoom at 4:00 - 5:00 PM. Email access.umassamherst@gmail.com for the Zoom link or more information.

Alliance Against Ableism
The Alliance Against Ableism is open to UMass students, staff, faculty and community members . Contact: alliance@umass.edu for information and sign up for the AAA listserve.

• The Alliance Against Ableism(AAA) aims to:  

• Have conversations around disability identity and inclusion and discuss its intersection with other identities. 

• Address ableism and barriers to inclusion and equality on campus and within the community.   

• Incorporate disability into larger systemic conversations and help create a campus built for all people. 

• Engage in programmatic and educational opportunities surrounding disability on campus and within the community. 

College Life on the Spectrum* Support and Discussion Group

• Talk about your experiences with support from co-facilitators in this weekly discussion group hosted by CCPH and Disability Services. You are welcome to honor your needs and come after the start time and/or leave before group ends! Please refrain from using products with fragrances.

• *Spectrum refers to people who experience any elements of autism spectrum disorders, including (dis)abilities related to perception, sensory processing, language, executive function, and motor skills. Group members do not need a medical diagnosis to attend.

• Email Denny Bobot for more information

Disability Culture Club
The Disability Culture Club was founded to spread disability culture and disability history throughout the UMass community. They aim to promote awareness of what "disability" means as a lived experience, as a social identity, and as a vibrant group with a shared heritage as well as to to support members and the disability community as a whole through fun activities and social events. Subscribe to the Disability Culture Club Listserve.

Karuth Silver (Disability) Cultural Center Planning Meetings
This group meets Thursdays 1-2pm via Zoom. Email disabilitycc@umass.edu for the Zoom link or for more information.

UMass Allies for Illness and Disability Access (UMAIDA)
UMAIDA promotes a supportive network and work environment that is inclusive and accessible for all individuals with lived experience of disability, deafness, illness (chronic and mental), injury, neurodiversity and their allies. The group also focuses on ways to support the recruitment, retention, professional development and career advancement of employees with disabilities. 

Massachusetts is home to the 2nd highest LGBTQIA+ population in the US. UMass Amherst is consistently rated as one of the "Best of the Best" institutions for LGBTQIA+ students by Campus Pride. More than 86% of LGBTQIA+ staff at UMass reported feeling like they belong at UMass (2021 Campus Climate Survey).

• Stonewall Center's Western Massachusetts Trans Resource Guide 

  • Includes name and gender marker change processes, trans-friendly/aware/experienced/specialist offices

• Support Groups

  • UMass LGBQTIA+ Network Employee Resource Group: Steering Committee positions are currently vacant. If you are interested in joining as a steering committee member, please contact Susan Weldon. 

    • Cultivating a more welcoming and respectful campus community for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual individuals and their allies, with a primary focus on the retention, advancement, and edification of UMass Amherst staff and faculty.

  • East Coast FTM Group

    • Support group for trans men. Meets the first Sunday of each month, 3-5 p.m.

  • Transhealth

    • A trans-led community health and education organization in Northampton that provides monthly virtual and in-person peer support groups for trans and nonbinary individuals 13-18, 18-30, and over 30 years old

• Tourism & Businesses

  • Hampshire County LGBT

    • Site offered by the Hampshire County Regional Tourism Council 

  • Majestic Saloon

    • Bar that offers drag shows, karaoke, comedy, and more.

• Events

  • Rainbow Contra of Western Mass

    • Offers gender role-free dancing on the first Saturday of each month at 7 p.m. at the First Churches of Northampton, 129 Main St.

  • Central Rock Gym Queer Climbing Nights (4th Fridays of the Month 6-8pm)

  • Hampshire Pride (in May)

  • Springfield Pride

  • Holyoke Pride

  • Berkshire Pride

  • Wicked Queer Film Festival

• History and News

  • Sexual Minorities Archives

    • Collects, preserves, and makes accessible LGBTQ+ books and other materials. 

  • The Rainbow Times

    • Bi-weekly LGBTQ New England newspaper 

  • Queer-E

    • Stonewall Center's Weekly Newsletter

• Health and Support

  • LGBTQ Care

    • A primary care facility of Cooley Dickinson Hospital that specializes in LGBTQ care

  • Tapestry Health 

    • Offers affordable, LGBTQ-supportive health care, including STI and HIV testing, gender-affirming hormone therapy, and syringe services, with clinics in Northampton, Holyoke, Springfield, and Greenfield

  • Safe Passage

    • Serves survivors of all genders, and has a LGBTQ+ Counselor Advocate and a Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming Outreach Advocate. Services are free, accessible to people with disabilities, confidential, and available in English, Spanish, and other languages 

• LGBTQIA+ Religious and Spiritual Resources