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Student Counseling and Psychological Services and the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine are working together to expand the availability of psychiatric services for students.
At UNLV, nontraditional students can find support designed to meet them where they are — and help them go further.
He was named the 2024 Junior Administrative Faculty of the Year.
With a growing network of participants, UNLV organization is a model for student-led mental health programming.
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Student Wellness In The News
May is both mental health awareness month and college finals month, as the Spring semester ends. Over 60% of higher-ed students in the U.S. meet diagnostic criteria for at least one mental health condition — that’s a 50% increase from 13 years ago. Of those mental illnesses, the most common are anxiety, depression and eating disorders. And at the end of the semester, when high stakes in final exams determine class scores and future scholarship money, those mental health concerns can get worse.
Saving a life one spray at a time. UNLV is giving away free doses of Narcan or Naloxone, a life-saving medication that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose or death.
UNLV students have received 13,000 counseling sessions through the Student Wellness center and its resources, ever since the December 6 tragedy. A team of two dozen UNLV counselors are ramping up mental health resources ahead of the December 6 memorial and the end of the Fall semester.
The Rebel Recovery Program will offer several scheduled and pop-up mental health events.
One month and two days after a shooting that rocked the UNLV campus community to its core, some faculty and staff members returned to work on Monday.
Close to 1,000 people utilized crisis counseling in the days following the December 6 shooting. Thousands more are expected to need resources.