Mental Health Resource Hub
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,
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,
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,
Learn mindfulness skills which can lead to better management of emotional stress and experiencing healthier lives.
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: Peer support facilitated by employees, Professional Clinical Care, Skills and Wellness Program,
- Campus Affiliations: All students, Post-doctoral Fellow,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Anxiety,
- Organization: CAPS Group, Student Affairs,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
Resource center at UNC-Chapel Hill that centers military connected students.
- Categories: Identity-based support,
- Campus Affiliations: All students,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: Veterans,
- Issue Types: Overall well-being,
- Organization: Student Affairs,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days,
The Multicultural Health Program (MCHP) is committed to decreasing mental health stigma and increasing access to culturally responsive mental health support and services. Our aim is to foster safety, promote healing, and empower underrepresented students.
- Categories: Peer support facilitated by employees, Support and Assistance,
- Campus Affiliations: All students,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Supports most mental health issues,
- Organization: CAPS,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days,
A CAPS program centering the mental health needs of Black, Indigenous, and Students of Color through individual therapy, group therapy, and outreach programs.
- Categories: Identity-based support, Professional Clinical Care,
- Campus Affiliations: All students, Post-doctoral Fellow,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: Asian American Pacific Islander, Black experiences, Latinx experiences are centered, Native American,
- Issue Types: Supports most mental health issues,
- Organization: CAPS, Student Affairs,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days,
Learn and try experiences to deepen your human-nature experience in order to reconnect with nature, ourselves, and others.
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: Peer support facilitated by employees, Professional Clinical Care, Skills and Wellness Program,
- Campus Affiliations: All students, Post-doctoral Fellow,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Overall well-being,
- Organization: CAPS Group, Student Affairs,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
Nutrition counseling from registered dietitians (RDs) who collaborate with medical staff and CAPS providers to support patients with eating disorders and anyone seeking medical nutrition therapy.
- Categories: Professional Clinical Care, Skills and Wellness Program,
- Campus Affiliations: All students, Post-doctoral Fellow,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees, Charged to health insurance / Copay,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Eating Disorders,
- Organization: Student Affairs,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
Peer2Peer is a student-led group that advocates for the mental well-being of the members within our community through peer support. Offers one-on-one sessions to talk with a student peer responder.
- Categories: Peer support facilitated by students,
- Campus Affiliations: All students,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Overall well-being,
- Organization: Student Organization,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days,
A group centering the needs of post-doctoral fellows to discuss the challenge to balance work and personal responsibilities.
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: Peer support facilitated by employees, Professional Clinical Care,
- Campus Affiliations: Post-doctoral Fellow,
- Costs: Already paid through student fees,
- Identity-based Support: All identities welcome,
- Issue Types: Academics, Overall well-being,
- Organization: CAPS Group, Student Affairs,
- Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Weeks,
