Outreach and Community Engagement
The mission of Outreach and Community Engagement Services is to connect CAPS to the larger UC community through relationship building and collaboration.
Through Outreach and Community Engagement, we hope to inform students about CAPS services, decrease stigma about mental health, reduce barriers, and reach out to individuals and communities that may otherwise not seek mental health services.
Outreach includes mental health programming; community consultation with students, faculty, and staff; presence at events to help improve the mental wellness of our campus; and raising awareness about mental health and wellbeing.
Community Wellness Groups
Community Wellness Groups are open to all UC Students. Community Wellness Groups are not therapy groups and focus on skill-building, psychoeducation, and fostering connections with students who share similar experiences within the University of Cincinnati. Students can drop-in as needed throughout the semester with no commitment to attend every week.
Community Wellness Groups will return in fall 2025!
Meet with Peers
Connecting with peers provides an innovative way to supporting the community by promoting opportunities for student engagement, connection, and reducing barriers to mental health resources. Some of our peer engagement includes peer to peer initiatives including Bearcats Support Network (BSN), the Bearcats Recovery Community, and Sky@UC.
Suicide Prevention
Become a QPR Gatekeeper
In Collaboration with 1n5 and Child Focus, the Division of Student Affairs-Health and Wellness is bringing the opportunity to be trained in the evidence-based suicide prevention training, Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR).
Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to understand mental health, recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis, and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying “Yes” to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor. Gatekeepers can be anyone, but include parents, friends, students, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, nurses, office supervisors, squad leaders, foremen, police officers, advisors, caseworkers, firefighters, and many others who are strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide.
As a QPR-trained Gatekeeper you will learn to:
- Recognize the warning signs of suicide
- Know how to offer hope
- Know how to get help and save a life