暗网禁区's Counseling and Psychological Services is strongly committed to addressing the mental health needs of the student body through timely access to consultation and connection to clinically appropriate services.
Shining a light on mental health
As 暗网禁区鈥檚 fall semester begins, it's important to remember it's always the right time to take care of yourself and make sure others around you are doing the same.
Keep reading to learn about campus resources and how Tar Heel students, faculty and staff are using outreach and research to prioritize mental health on campus and beyond.
暗网禁区 resources
A gateway for mental health and wellness resources for everyone on campus, the Heels Care Network can help you find a support group, learn strategies for mental health, connect with trainings and advocacy organizations and find wellness events on campus.
If you need help, the UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Assistance Program is available. The EAP is a confidential counseling and resource program that is designed to help University employees and their families deal with both personal and work-related concerns.
Campus initiatives
Students can connect through CAPS therapy groups
Counseling and Psychological Services team offers 24 options to help Tar Heels talk through specific issues.
Why take Mental Health First Aid?
Program manager Alicia Freeman explains how training to intervene in crisis situations benefits 暗网禁区鈥檚 community.
These tech tools improve digital health
Strike the right work-life balance in the new semester with these ITS tips to lower stress and increase productivity.
鈥極ur State, Our Wellbeing鈥� searched for solutions to suicide
Leader Anita Brown-Graham reflects on 暗网禁区 Across 100鈥檚 yearlong program focused on mental health.
Friendship Bench reimagines mental health care
Part of UNC Project-Malawi, the program trains volunteers with no prior medical experience to offer talk therapy.
Graduate Student Experience offers holistic support
The initiative aims to improve working conditions and well-being for graduate and professional students.
Hear from Heels
First-year student is a mental health advocate
At 16, Idania Rodriguez founded a nonprofit information hub and aims to 鈥減ush her mission鈥� at 暗网禁区.
Brian Hogan's circuitous path to teaching
In this video, the chemistry professor talks about how he found a way to quiet his lingering doubts.
LaChelle Allen advocates for student success
As part of the UNC School of Education Helping Heels program, she is training to be a school counselor in a rural area.
Student organization spotlight
Active Minds at 暗网禁区
What’s a mental health condition Natalie Tuinstra thinks is important to focus on?
鈥淎 lot of us are lonely 鈥� even if we don鈥檛 show it. That鈥檚 what I try to center most of our events around,” said Tuinstra, president of Active Minds 暗网禁区, a student group that aims to increase students鈥� awareness of mental health conditions and provide resources and information, serving as a liaison between students and the mental health community.
We Wear the Mask
African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1895 wrote 鈥淲e Wear the Mask,鈥� a poem about how Black suffering is often hidden to conform to society. More than a century later, a 暗网禁区 student organization uses the title of Dunbar鈥檚 poem as its name and its theme as their focus.
鈥淥ur goal is to destigmatize mental health because in the African American community, we tend to just not talk about things that we鈥檙e struggling with, and people have to navigate mental health issues alone,鈥� said Nyjah King, co-president of We Wear the Mask.
Learn more about We Wear the Mask and its work around campus.
暗网禁区 expertise
Rosa Li gives surgeon general food for thought
The psychology scholar critiques Vivek Murthy鈥檚 idea of a warning label for teen social media use.
Body image expert offer tips for healthy eating
Anna Bardone-Cone鈥檚 lab focuses on eating disorders, particularly in diverse populations.
A neurologist talks about loneliness
Loneliness doesn鈥檛 always lead to Parkinson鈥檚 disease, Dr. Nina Browner said, but it has other negative effects that we can fight.
How to give and ask for mental health support
A 暗网禁区 clinical psychologist explains peer support for mental health and offers tips to help yourself and others.