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Update your Emergency Contacts (Students)

Last updated on Jul 16, 2025


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Before you begin

For students only. Use this guide to add emergency contacts, such as parents or guardians, for CCA to contact in case of an emergency. CCA strongly recommends that students add more than one emergency contact. International students are strongly recommended to include at least one emergency contact in the U.S. whenever possible.

Staff and faculty use a different task to add Emergency Contacts: Add/Update Emergency Contacts (Employees)


1 Add New or Edit Existing Friends and Family record

add my friends and family screen

Navigate to your student profile in Workday (click on your photo in the top right corner, then View Profile). Within your student profile’s Contact sidebar tab, a menu of subtabs appears across the screen. Click the Friends and Family subtab.

  • If you want to designate one of the contacts already listed as your Emergency Contact, click the Edit button on the far right column for this contact.
  • To add a new contact, click the Add button to enter the Add My Friends and Family form.
add my friends and family screen

2 Enter Details

Relationship Types:

  • Indicate at least one with type Emergency Contact.
  • A contact may have more than one relationship type, e.g. you can select both "Parent" and "Emergency Contact".

Relationship:

  • Specify the contact’s relation to you in the Relationship dropdown.

Is Third Party User

Enter the emergency contact’s first and last name.

3 Enter Contact Information

  1. Click the Contact Information subtab (next to the Name subtab).
  2. Click the Add button under Phone, Address, and/or Email.
  3. Fill in the required fields as they appear.
    • A phone number and email are required for all emergency contacts, but students are strongly encouraged to maintain updated address information for each of their emergency contacts as well.
      • For domestic (U.S.) numbers, your primary phone number needs to be in a (XXX) XXX - XXXX format.
      • For international numbers, your phone number needs to include city or area code.

Click OK when finished.