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Please review the resources below to learn important crisis information and ways to get involved in suicide prevention:
There are both on and off campus resources that you can use if experiencing a mental health emergency.
If you are experiencing a mental health emergency during business hours (M-F 8:30-4:30), please come to D-216 or call our main line at 201-684-7522 to be connected with our emergency on-call therapist. Alternatively, you may call 911 or go to your local emergency room.
If you are experiencing a mental health emergency after the office has closed (nights after 4:30 pm or weekends), simply call the main line at 201-684-7522 and follow the prompt (“Press 2”) for immediate assistance. Alternatively, you may call 988, 911, or go to your local emergency room.
Ramapo’s 2025 theme is Be The One to Prevent Suicide. Below are events in September to raise awareness on suicide, promote mental health resources, and foster connection, healing, and hope. Let’s change the narrative together and decrease the stigma surrounding suicidal thoughts, attempts, and loss.
Date: Thursday, 9/4/25
Location: Arch
Time: 1:15 pm to 2 pm
Rain/Heat location: Friends Hall
Questions? Email studentwellness@ramapo.edu.
Join Counseling Services, the College Programming Board and the Roadrunner Collegiate Recovery Program for this event. Meet at the Arch at 9 pm for a silent candlelight vigil by to remember those who have lost their lives to suicide and/or substance use disorders. After, we will walk, stroll, or roll as a group to Laurel Courts for a mental health glow party with music, food, and sober activities like lawn games, volleyball, and glow in the dark items. Through this event, we are creating light in darkness.
There will also be tables with information on mental health/substance use resources and information to donate and/or sign up to participate with the Ramapo Team in the Out of the Darkness Walk for Bergen County.
Date: Thursday, 9/18/25
Location: The Arch followed by Laurel Courts
Time: 9 pm to 11 pm
Rain location: Friends Hall
Join Counseling Services for a chance to chalk the pathways in the grove with words of positivity and hope to promote health seeking and mental health. Students will be able to register for Togetherall, an anonymous peer support community. Learn more about Togetherall here. Swing by to meet and pet some adorable animals from Creature Comfort Pet Therapy. Rain location is Friends Hall.
Date: Monday, 9/22/25
Time: 1 pm to 3 pm
Location: The Arch/Grove
Rain location: Friends Hall
Questions? Email studentwellness@ramapo.edu.
Join Ramapo College Counseling Services in preventing suicide and supporting those who have been affected by it during the Bergen County Out of Darkness Walk! Through donations, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention aims to reduce the suicide rate by 20% by 2026.
Date: Sunday, 10/4/25
Location: Overpeck Park Amphitheater – Ridgefield Park, NJ
Check-in Time: 9 am
Walk Start Time: 10 am
Register to walk with the Ramapo Team and/or donate to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention here. Donations are encouraged but not required to walk. Limited transportation will be provided. If you’d like to attend but need transportation, or if you have any questions, please email studentwellness@ramapo.edu.
We are currently seeking cosponsors for this event! Please email studentwellness@ramapo.edu.
Join Wellness Is Now Peer Educator, Lida Kelyman, will be tabling about 988 in various residence halls around campus. Swing by the table to take a break, color a 988 flyer, and get important information about how 988 can support you and those you care about. Questions? Email win@ramapo.edu.
Dates and Locations:
Is your club or organization participating in an event or initiative for National Suicide Prevention Month in September 2025? Email studentwellness@ramapo.edu for Counseling Services or Wellness Is Now to have your questions answered or for co-sponsorship to have your event be added to the calendar!
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for college students. Counseling Services offers two suicide-prevention trainings for the Ramapo community. If your department, organization, or club would like to take action to help prevent suicide, consider participating in the two training opportunities below.
Campus Connect is a free 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.
A Campus Connect gatekeeper training is approximately 3 hours and includes:
REQUEST CAMPUS CONNECT TRAINING HERE
Please reach out to Counseling Services for more information at (201) 684-7522.
Ask.Listen.Refer is a free training 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.
Ask, Listen, Refer can be facilitated in-person. If you are requesting the facilitation to occur after 5 pm, please partner with at least one other organization for the facilitation to be approved. You can request an in-person Ask, Listen, Refer facilitation here.
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