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Free, professional, confidential counseling to:
FALL 2021 GROUPS TBD
Please call the main number at 201-684-7522 for more information
If you are seeking help for situations of an emergency nature that occur during office hours (Monday – Friday), please be sure to inform the receptionist (201) 684-7522 regarding the nature of your urgency. We will do everything possible to respond promptly and/or involve other resources as needed.
If you are experiencing a mental health emergency during nights or weekends, simply call the main line at 201-684-7522 and follow the prompt (“Press 2”) for immediate assistance. Alternatively, you may call 911 or your local emergency room.
Drop-In Hours
*Last meeting begins at 2:40.
**Even though you will be meeting with a professional counselor, drop-ins do not constitute formal mental health counseling.
For more information, please call us at 201-684-7522.
In-Person Suicide Prevention Training: Campus Connect
Overview
Campus Connect is a free 3-hour long training that provides gatekeepers with information and strategies to help prevent suicide, and refer students to campus and community resources. Counseling Services staff utilizes experiential exercises, including an emphasis on acknowledging and working with gatekeepers own fears about suicide. Campus connect prepares faculty, staff, and students with an opportunity to learn about suicide prevention, and practice strategies for interacting with a student who is in crisis.
Gatekeeper Training
A Campus Connect gatekeeper training session includes:
REQUEST CAMPUS CONNECT TRAINING HERE
Please contact Dr. Tal Yonai at tyonai@ramapo.edu for more information
Online Suicide Prevention Training
Ask.Listen.Refer is an online suicide prevention training that is available for faculty, staff and students. This training helps users:
This program takes about 20 minutes to complete. It is intended to be educational rather than therapeutic, and it must be completed in one sitting. Logging in and out of the program may cancel your progress and prevent you from obtaining your certificate of completion.
To complete Ask.Listen.Refer, please click here: http://www.asklistenrefer.org/ramapo
Suicide Prevention Resources
Could you use a little bit of help?
TAO self-help is a completely private online library of interactive video resources and practice tools to help you understand and manage how you feel, think, and act.
You can learn stress management, mindfulness skills, problem-solving, relationship skills and strategies to avoid dwelling on your concerns and to develop more helpful thinking patterns.
TAO Self-Help is exclusively licensed to Ramapo College. There is no cost to you, and you can do this on your own by creating a secure, private account. As a self-help user, the content you engage with is confidential.
Want to see some of what is offered in TAO before signing up? Click HERE for a webpage showing what is available in TAO.
Click HERE to sign up with your Ramapo email address and HERE for video instructions on using TAO.
If you need to talk to someone about your concerns, contact Counseling Services at 201-684-7522.
Location: D-216
Along with campus-wide prevention programming, Counseling Services offers substance use disorder (SUD) assessment and treatment services for students. Please call 201-684-7522 for more information.
Short-term medication management with our staff psychiatrist, Dr. Bhatia, is available for students who are being seen in individual therapy. Please schedule an intake appointment or speak to your therapist if you are interested in meeting with Dr. Bhatia.
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