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

Timely MD

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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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.