Free confidential counseling and legal, financial, and family support for permanent UNC employees and members of their household. Phone and web assistance available 24/7—call 877-314-5841.
Resources
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Employee Assistance Program
Urgency/Wait Times: Immediate Support, Within a Few DaysCosts: Free for eligible UNC employees and familiesIdentities: All identities welcomeCategories: Professional Clinical Care, Support and AssistanceMental Health Needs: Supports most mental health issuesOrganization: Employee OrganizationCampus Affiliation: All employees, Family MembersWebsite: https://hr.unc.edu/benefits/wellness/employee-assistance-program/
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Empower UNC: Responding to Disclosures of GBV
Empower UNC: Responding to Disclosures of GBV (gender-based violence) is a training collaboration between Violence Prevention and Advocacy Services (VPAS) and Equal Opportunity and Compliance (EOC). Empower UNC equips students and employees with information, resources, and strategies to respond to disclosures of sexual violence, interpersonal violence, stalking, and sexual and gender-based harassment in an informed and compassionate way.
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few WeeksCosts: No charge for anyoneIdentities: All identities welcomeCategories: TrainingsMental Health Needs: Discrimination, Interpersonal/intimate partner violenceOrganization: Student Affairs, UNC Department or SchoolCampus Affiliation: Anyone affiliated with UNC’s campus -
Empowering Black Women
A CAPS therapy group offering a safe and trusting environment to dialogue openly and honestly about the experiences of Black women and facilitate empowerment and encouragement.
Typically, this group recruits new members at the beginning of the semester. If that time has passed, you can still ask and express interest.
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few WeeksCosts: Already paid through student fees, No charge for anyoneIdentities: Black experiences, WomenCategories: Peer support facilitated by employees, Professional Clinical CareMental Health Needs: Supports most mental health issuesOrganization: CAPS GroupCampus Affiliation: All students, Post-doctoral FellowWebsite: https://caps.unc.edu/group-therapy/empowering-black-women/
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Episcopal Campus Ministry
The Chapel of the Cross offers clergy support and a welcoming community for all undergraduate and graduate students. People of any faith or denomination are welcome.
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few DaysCosts: No charge for anyoneIdentities: Faith-based, Religious, or SpiritualCategories: Community Building, Peer support facilitated by students, Support and AssistanceMental Health Needs: Overall well-beingOrganization: Off-CampusCampus Affiliation: All studentsWebsite: https://heellife.unc.edu/organization/episcopal-campus-ministry
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Eshelman Care Referral
Provides students of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences with focused assistance to support them in their academics, health, well-being, professionalism, and in situations of discrimination/harassment
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few Days, Within a Few WeeksCosts: Already paid through student feesIdentities: All identities welcomeCategories: Skills and Wellness Program, Support and AssistanceMental Health Needs: Get Involved, Overall well-being, Supports most mental health issuesOrganization: UNC Department or SchoolCampus Affiliation: Graduate and Professional Students -
Exercise is Medicine
Personalized fitness support based on the concept of exercise as a vital sign for health and well-being.
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few WeeksCosts: No charge for anyoneIdentities: All identities welcomeCategories: Certified coaches, Peer support facilitated by students, Skills and Wellness ProgramMental Health Needs: Overall well-beingOrganization: UNC Department or SchoolCampus Affiliation: All students, Post-doctoral FellowWebsite: https://unc-eim.weebly.com/
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Feeling Seen Podcast
Two Black staff psychologists at CAPS come together on this podcast to discuss and demystify mental health, therapy, and help-seeking, giving listeners a more personal side of CAPS and its staff.
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few DaysCosts: No charge for anyoneIdentities: All identities welcome, Black experiencesCategories: MultimediaMental Health Needs: Supports most mental health issuesOrganization: CAPS, Student AffairsCampus Affiliation: CommunityWebsite: https://caps.unc.edu/services/outreach/feeling-seen-podcast
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Find Substance Use Treatment
Find Treatment is a government resource to find help for substance use
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few DaysCosts: No charge for anyoneIdentities: All identities welcomeCategories: Support and AssistanceMental Health Needs: Substance Use DisorderOrganization: Off-CampusCampus Affiliation: Anyone affiliated with UNC’s campus, CommunityWebsite: https://findtreatment.gov/
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First in the Family
The First in the Family group is a safe and nurturing environment that centers the needs of Carolina’s first-generation college students to discuss the challenges of being the first in the family to attend college with others who “get it.” The group will be a place to give and receive support and will touch on topics such as financial stressors, maintaining boundaries, networking, and family conflicts, in order to help students to be successful academically, professionally, and personally.
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few WeeksCosts: Already paid through student feesIdentities: All identities welcome, First GenerationCategories: Community Building, Identity-based support, Peer support facilitated by employeesMental Health Needs: Supports most mental health issuesOrganization: CAPS GroupCampus Affiliation: All students -
Future Counselors Association
Student org in the Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling graduate program that uses volunteer opportunities, fundraising, and a variety of social events to create a healthier campus.
Urgency/Wait Times: Within a Few WeeksCosts: No charge for anyoneIdentities: All identities welcomeCategories: Mental Health AdvocacyMental Health Needs: Get InvolvedOrganization: Student OrganizationCampus Affiliation: Graduate and Professional StudentsWebsite: https://heellife.unc.edu/organization/uncch-rehabilitation-counseling-association
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