Westchester Neighborhood Faculty lower the ribbon on a brand new Psychological Well being Suite, designed particularly to offer WCC college students the additional assist they want in an effort to succeed.
WCC’s Division of Psychological Well being and Counseling Providers creates a campus surroundings that’s protected, development fostering, and prioritizes the psychological, social, and emotional well-being of our school neighborhood. Using a holistic strategy to psychological well being, the division provides confidential, particular person and group psychological well being providers to college students.
Many Westchester Neighborhood Faculty college students face vital burdens – monetary and tutorial considerations, meals insecurity, homelessness, and the emotional turmoil these and different elements carry – that have an effect on their psychological well being and, consequently, their tutorial success. The pandemic exacerbated these challenges by means of two years of uncertainty, loss and trauma.
A consortium of private and non-private sources has come collectively to create the brand new Psychological Well being Suite at WCC. Positioned adjoining to the Well being Providers workplace, this new facility supplies a non-public and confidential area for college students to hunt help and watch for appointments, sends a transparent message to the WCC neighborhood that scholar psychological well being is a precedence, and acknowledges the clear hyperlink between psychological well being and tutorial success. Its proximity to the Well being Providers workplace highlights that psychological well being is simply as necessary as bodily well being and creates a Well being & Wellness Middle for the Faculty.
The Psychological Well being Suite is made potential with a present from Susan Yubas and Michael Benenson, funds from the WCC College Pupil Affiliation, and different beneficiant donors to the Westchester Neighborhood Faculty Basis
“This new Well being and Wellness Middle is an instance of how we hearken to what the school neighborhood tells us it wants – that you will need to take care of the entire individual – physique AND thoughts,” mentioned Susan Yubas. “This collaboration is a wonderful instance of WCC, the Basis and the neighborhood of donors working collectively to extend and broaden the excellent high quality of providers wanted to additional the success of all WCC college students.”
For extra data on WCC’s Division of Psychological Well being and Counseling Providers, go to www.sunywcc.edu/mentalhealth.
