If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the ...

The Peer Counseling Program at WIU is designed to provide comprehensive support and resources to students facing various challenges. We take a holistic approach to well-being and recognize the central ...

As a first-year student at Boston College in 2020, Ella Snyder recalls feeling isolated and being anxious about the university’s restrictions to decrease spread of the coronavirus. “I was very worried ...

College and university presidents reported in a national survey last spring that the most pressing issue on their campuses was student mental health. At Georgia State University, where I serve as ...

Mark Kalina was 23 and studying civil engineering at Ohio State University when he tried to walk around a stopped train while heading home. He slipped, got his shirt caught in the train’s mechanism ...

WASHINGTON (WCYB) — Senator Tim Kaine has introduced legislation which is aimed to help elevate the role of peer support specialists. Peer support specialists are mental health professionals who have ...

BRAINERD — Crow Wing County Health Division’s Women, Infant, and Children’s program announced the addition of a Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program. Counties that have a breastfeeding peer counselor ...

Paid for by Sonoma County, the program provides training for potential counselors and links them the senior citizens who are not in need of intensive therapy but just need someone to simply listen. To ...