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Silent Sufferers: Combating Loneliness in College Students Requires Campus-wide Collaboration

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called loneliness a public health epidemic in 2023. In 2023, students engaged in nearly a million interactions with the self-care journeys and in the peer community. Navigating mental health challenges in a new, high-pressure setting can also lead to what has been deemed a growing epidemic: loneliness.

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Strategies for Inclusive Care that Drive Student Success

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I just sent our director of health and wellness and our director of counseling to a professional development opportunity that wasn’t focused on health and wellness. Though the graduating class of 2023 is the class that started back on campus in-person right after COVID, Haywood said the buck doesn’t stop here. “In

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How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources

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May 2, 2023. Joining me today to discuss this challenge is the Director of Counseling Services for Northern Arizona University, Dr. Carl Dindo. Podcast How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources Episode 149. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. Dr. Carl Dindo: Sure, Katie.

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10 Best Practices for Supporting College Students’ Mental Health

Timely MD

Tierra Parsons, Director of Counseling Services at Johnson C. With Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) grants ending in 2023, two-year community colleges and four-year public colleges and universities increasingly are advocating for state legislators to assist in funding for mental health resources.