Mental Health Resource Hub
A space that centers, values, nurtures, respects, and celebrates LGBTQIA+ students of color by fostering connection and offering culturally-specific healing.
Typically, this group recruits new members at the beginning of the semester. If that time has passed, you can still ask and express interest.
- Categories: Identity-based support, Peer support facilitated by employees, Professional Clinical Care,
- Campus Affiliations: All students, Post-doctoral Fellow,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees, No charge for anyone,
- Identity-based Support: Asian American Pacific Islander, Black experiences, Latinx experiences are centered, LGBTQIA, Native American,
- Issue Types: Supports most mental health issues,
- Organization: CAPS Group, Student Affairs,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
Kasama - The Filipino American Student Association of UNC-Chapel Hill is a student organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which has been founded for the purpose of serving as a source of information and dissemination on Filipino culture and a support system network centering the needs of Filipinos, Philippine-affiliated, and those who seek interest in the Filipino culture.
- Categories: Community Building, Identity-based support, Peer support facilitated by students,
- Campus Affiliations: All students,
- Costs: No charge for anyone,
- Identity-based Support: Asian American Pacific Islander,
- Issue Types: Get Involved, Overall well-being,
- Organization: Student Organization,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
Wellness events, programs, and interventions to support all populations within the business school at UNC.
Contact the wellness specialist here.
- Categories: Skills and Wellness Program, Support and Assistance,
- Campus Affiliations: All students,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Overall well-being,
- Organization: UNC Department or School,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days,
Our organization seeks to promote cultural, political, and social awareness about the Korean American community both on the UNC-CH campus and in the community at large; KASA strives to establish a safe space for both students to celebrate our heritage and discover new aspects of cultural and political identity. Membership is open to any and all who are interested in Korean American concerns!
- Categories: Community Building, Identity-based support, Peer support facilitated by students,
- Campus Affiliations: All students,
- Costs: No charge for anyone,
- Identity-based Support: Asian American Pacific Islander,
- Issue Types: Get Involved, Overall well-being,
- Organization: Student Organization,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
This group seeks to facilitate empowerment and encouragement, and create a safe and trusting environment to dialogue openly and honestly about the experiences of LatinX people.
Typically, this group recruits new members at the beginning of the semester. If that time has passed, you can still ask and express interest.
- Categories: Community Building, Identity-based support, Peer support facilitated by employees,
- Campus Affiliations: All students, Post-doctoral Fellow,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: Latinx experiences are centered,
- Issue Types: Overall well-being, Supports most mental health issues,
- Organization: CAPS Group,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
Latinx Therapy is a site that centers the needs of Latinx people, including connecting users with therapists who center Latinx experiences in their practice and can offer support in Spanish and additional languages.
- Categories: Identity-based support,
- Campus Affiliations: Anyone affiliated with UNC's campus,
- Costs: No charge for anyone,
- Identity-based Support: Latinx experiences are centered,
- Issue Types: Supports most mental health issues,
- Organization: Off-Campus,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days, Within a Few Weeks,
Confidential Peer support, Information, and Resources for callers of all ages.
- Categories: Identity-based support, Support and Assistance,
- Campus Affiliations: Anyone affiliated with UNC's campus,
- Costs: No charge for anyone,
- Identity-based Support: LGBTQIA,
- Issue Types: Supports most mental health issues,
- Organization: Off-Campus,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Immediate Support,
Identity center at UNC Chapel Hill offering programs and resources to build a campus environment that is welcoming and inclusive of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.
- Categories: Identity-based support, Mental Health Advocacy,
- Campus Affiliations: Anyone affiliated with UNC's campus,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: LGBTQIA, Trans*/Queer,
- Issue Types: Discrimination, Supports most mental health issues,
- Organization: Student Affairs,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days,
We’re an authentic, inclusive faith community for UNC students to serve and worship together in God’s love to create a more loving world where people are safe to be themselves and grow in faith.
- Categories: Community Building, Peer support facilitated by students, Support and Assistance,
- Campus Affiliations: All students,
- Costs: No charge for anyone,
- Identity-based Support: Faith-based, Religious, or Spiritual,
- Issue Types: Overall well-being,
- Organization: Off-Campus,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days,
UNC-Chapel Hill provides students brief therapy thru CAPS as well as through the telehealth provider Mantra Health.
Both CAPS and Mantra Health therapists can offer a student their first interaction with a therapist within a day and provide brief therapy at no cost to the student. Mantra Health operates as solely as a brief teletherapy (online) provider.
Mantra Health may be able to offer students availability on nights and weekends as well as a large pool of therapists.
Those students seeking connection with Mantra Health should either:
- Visit CAPS for an initial assessment OR
- Email Mantra@unc.edu with your name and PID. CAPS staff will reply with the necessary information to create an online account. The student can then find and connect with a Mantra Health therapist that matches their preferences including clinical need, gender, ethnicity, language, and availability.
- Categories: Peer support facilitated by employees, Professional Clinical Care, Support and Assistance,
- Campus Affiliations: All students,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees, No charge for anyone,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Supports most mental health issues,
- Organization: CAPS, Off-Campus,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days,
Promotes conversation around mental health, de-stigmatizes mental illness, facilitates support networks, and presents educational programming on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Categories: Community Building, Mental Health Advocacy,
- Campus Affiliations: Undergraduate Students,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Get Involved,
- Organization: Student Affairs, Student Organization,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
An eight-hour training program designed to help you develop basic skills to help someone who is experiencing a mental health crisis and identify resources for additional care. The MHFA workshops are available as a single full-day session or as two half-day sessions.
- Categories: Trainings,
- Campus Affiliations: Anyone affiliated with UNC's campus,
- Costs: No charge for anyone,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Crisis,
- Organization: UNC Department or School,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
