Outreach

In addition to counseling services, the staff provides educational and preventive mental-health workshops and campus-wide programs oftentimes in collaboration with other departments and/or student organizations. These events raise social and behavioral awareness to address student and campus concerns. For example, the NCAA-funded college health initiative, The Hilltopper Advantage: Safe and Healthy Choices, have peer educators collaborate in developing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs to help students develop decision-making skills and promote health and safety.

Request an Outreach Presentation/Workshop

Go to the following request form to schedule a presentation or workshop.

Guidelines for Requesting an outreach program:

• In accordance with the mission of this program, priority will be placed on training of student groups and university staff and faculty focused on improving their service to students
• Priority is given to requests that are placed at least two-three weeks prior to the date of the needed service.
• All requests, regardless of how far in advance they are submitted, are subject to the availability of Counseling Center staff.
• Requests for evening programs, with the exception of crisis/emergency situations should start no later than 7:00 p.m.

Below is a list of general presentation topics. If you do not see a topic listed, contact the Outreach Services & Program Development Coordinator for an individualized program.

• Diversity Appreciation and Awareness: Focused on developing personal cultural awareness and creating climates that value diversity; Small group exercises to increase sensitivity to and appreciation of diversity.
• Stress Management: A session aimed at learning how to identify, reduce and cope with stress factors of student life.
• Coping with Depression: Educates participants about the signs & symptoms of depression and strategies for coping with depression.
• Strategies for Effective Communication: Presentation and exercises focus on helping individuals improve the way they communicate feelings and experiences to others. Explore the impact of verbal as well as non-verbal communication.
• Going Home: A program designed to help you make holidays & visits home more enjoyable experiences. Will focus on parent/student relationships, negotiating needs and expectations, and balancing autonomy with family membership.
• Sharing Space: A workshop designed to examine ways to clarify expectations in a roommate relationship.
• Self Esteem: Understanding, changing and accepting one's self. Identify personal strengths and how to become an advocate for oneself (becoming a support to one's self). Increasing positive self-talk.
• College Success: A workshop for new students exploring expectations about college, situations likely to be encountered, and methods to prepare for and deal with those situations.
• Intimate Relationships: Explore developing intimacy; understanding interpersonal relationships; exploring sexual myths; examining sex roles; initiating relationships.
• When Love is Abused: Explores the cycle of abuse in relationships and how to deal with it.
• Family Relationships: Helps participants understand how they have been influenced (positively or negatively) by their families and how this knowledge can be used to empower effective choice-making at college-academically, socially and in relationships..
• Other "Made to-Order" Workshops - Workshops can be designed to fit special requirements and can include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
  • Perfectionism and procrastination
  • Decision-making
  • Knowing and communicating your sexual boundaries
  • Workshops for students of color or international students
  • Gender roles, stereotypes
  • Body image
  • Relaxation