Promoting wellness, safety, and healthy behaviors for an extraordinary campus community!
Mission: Increase healthy behaviors and improve overall well-being of individuals within the High Point University community through educational campaigns, programming, training and intervention.
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What if you or someone else are experiencing a mental health emergency?
During Business Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm, you may walk-in to Counseling Services. If you are in physical danger, please call 911, as well as Campus Police and Security at 336- 841-9111 or X9111 from a campus extension.
After Business Hours and Weekends: Please call Campus Police and Security at 336-841-9111 or x9111 from a campus extension.
Please see our Mental Health Emergencies page for more information.
Interpersonal Violence Prevention is…
- Defining interpersonal violence: Interpersonal Violence includes intentional use of physical force or power to physically, sexually, emotionally, or psychologically harm or threaten harm.
- Information on domestic/dating violence, stalking, non-consensual sexual contact, sexual misconduct, and sexual assault
- Empowering individuals to put consent into practice
- Bystander Intervention
- Awareness and culture change
- Resources for support, advocacy, and reporting
If you would like to report an incident of sexual assault, sexual misconduct, intimate partner violence, stalking, or non-consensual sexual contact, sexual harassment, please complete a reporting form HERE.
Substance Use Prevention is…
- Education on the impact alcohol and other drugs can have on one’s health
- Ways substances can cause impairment
- Knowledge on what makes drinking high risk
- Tools to make healthy choices and reduce harm
Suicide Prevention: Question. Persuade. Refer. Trainings
Mental Health & Wellness Prevention Topics
- Managing stress & anxiety
- Self-care
- Education on depression and anxiety
- Disordered eating
- Suicide Prevention