West Coast College has an established Student Support Services Unit to provide a holistic support service to students upon entry, on course and exit support. The Student Support Unit operates as a centralized unit with a Student Support Officer at each of the five campuses and offers various services.

The College offers financial aid by helping students with applications for bursaries at various institutions and agencies. The Career Guidance programme aim to place you within the most suitable academic field. Academic support programmes include study guidance, life skills programmes, and extra classes over weekends or during holidays.

Health and wellness promotion programmes to highlight the dangers drug and alcohol abuse; counseling services on request; HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns and support to affected and infected students.

The college acknowledges and values its Student Representative Council. Each campus has SRC representatives. Each campus SRC manages student affairs. The chairpersons of each campus form the College Executive. The Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the SRC Executive represent the student population on the West Coast College Council.

Every year an extensive leadership development programme is implemented to assist the SRC with fulfilling their roles and responsibilities as the mouthpiece of the student community. The SRC assists Student Support Officers to arrange various campus activities that include sport, recreation and cultural events, talent shows and community outreach projects.

Sport programmes include rugby, netball and soccer. Last year West Coast College participated in the Western Cape FET Colleges soccer trials during winter to select a provincial squad, which participated in a National Tournament. Four students made it onto the Western Cape FET soccer squad where they competed against other provinces in a National Tournament in Johannesbur.

The MOT project is a life skills development programme. The word MOT is a Norwegian word, meaning COURAGE. It is aimed to lay the foundation for life skills education, which the college regards as an essential complement to the Life Orientation classes. Apart from being a training programme, MOT represents a life philosophy that they aspire to inculcate and cultivate within each individual, institution, community and society.

It empowers the youth to make conscious choices that result in them better mastering their lives. It seeks to strengthen a student's courage to take care of themselves and each other. This means influencing a

student's attitude, establishing sound values, choices and believe in their own abilities.

Exit support includes providing job readiness workshops, CV writing skills, job placement and tracking.