As Carolina’s 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.
Carolina'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.
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.
Counseling and Psychological Services team offers 24 options to help Tar Heels talk through specific issues.
Program manager Alicia Freeman explains how training to intervene in crisis situations benefits Carolina’s community.
Strike the right work-life balance in the new semester with these ITS tips to lower stress and increase productivity.
Leader Anita Brown-Graham reflects on Carolina Across 100’s yearlong program focused on mental health.
Part of UNC Project-Malawi, the program trains volunteers with no prior medical experience to offer talk therapy.
The initiative aims to improve working conditions and well-being for graduate and professional students.
At 16, Idania Rodriguez founded a nonprofit information hub and aims to “push her mission” at Carolina.
In this video, the chemistry professor talks about how he found a way to quiet his lingering doubts.
As part of the UNC School of Education Helping Heels program, she is training to be a school counselor in a rural area.
What’s a mental health condition Natalie Tuinstra thinks is important to focus on?
“A lot of us are lonely — even if we don’t show it. That’s what I try to center most of our events around,” said Tuinstra, president of Active Minds Carolina, a student group that aims to increase students’ awareness of mental health conditions and provide resources and information, serving as a liaison between students and the mental health community.
African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1895 wrote “We Wear the Mask,” a poem about how Black suffering is often hidden to conform to society. More than a century later, a Carolina student organization uses the title of Dunbar’s poem as its name and its theme as their focus.
“Our goal is to destigmatize mental health because in the African American community, we tend to just not talk about things that we’re struggling with, and people have to navigate mental health issues alone,” said Nyjah King, co-president of We Wear the Mask.
Learn more about We Wear the Mask and its work around campus.
The psychology scholar critiques Vivek Murthy’s idea of a warning label for teen social media use.
Anna Bardone-Cone’s lab focuses on eating disorders, particularly in diverse populations.
Loneliness doesn’t always lead to Parkinson’s disease, Dr. Nina Browner said, but it has other negative effects that we can fight.
A Carolina clinical psychologist explains peer support for mental health and offers tips to help yourself and others.
