Mental Health

Penn Wellness to receive $8000 budget for upcoming year

Penn Wellness is set to receive $8000 from VPUL for the upcoming school year after not previously being allocated an annual budget.

Minority student leaders call for more diversity in CAPS staff

Last Week Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, held a protest in solidarity with students at The University of Missouri and Yale, who had been protesting the unfair treatment of minority students on their campus, and in the case of Missouri the failure of the administration to proactively address the issue of racism on their campus. 

Nick Moncy | Brain Injury

NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.

Penn participates in mental health improvement program

Penn is participating in the Campus Program — a collaboration between the Jed and Clinton Foundations — which is a four-year commitment requiring universities to complete self-assessments and establish an oversight committee to monitor progress on mental health efforts. 

Jason Tangson | Exhortation for exploration

Instead of intuition, our choices are tempered and tampered by our fear of not succeeding. These metrics of success rarely arise from our own organic origins, and instead come from being enveloped in Penn’s homogenous zones, which are aroused only by the touch of traditional success.

ONGOING: Mental health concerns, new leads in missing student case

Both of Hamlett’s parents received phone calls from a blocked number after the disappearance.

Guest column by Stephanie Virbitsky | Yes, let's talk about body image

Vera Krillov’s guest column last Wednesday showed that other students found the body image pressures on campus troubling as well. Why is it that so many of us are dissatisfied with our bodies — the same bodies that keep us moving, thinking, loving, dreaming, living?

Guest column by Vera Kirillow | Care to talk about your eating disorder?

I never used to think my four-times-a-week gym schedule and refusal to eat fatty meals more than a couple times a week was unusual or unhealthy. Freshman year at Penn, I gained 15 pounds, and my new habits were just part of a healthy lifestyle helping me shed that weight.

Penn launches mental health hotline

The University launched the 24/7 HELP line on Monday morning.

How to prevent college suicides is not well understood

Experts say suicides on college campuses tend to happen in waves.

Mental health task force makes preliminary recommendations

Penn’s mental health task force offered preliminary recommendations to student groups at an Undergraduate Assembly steering committee last week.

College senior's death ruled a suicide

The death of Theodric Reed, a College senior who studied English, was ruled a suicide, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed.

At cultural centers, minority students find 'a safe space'

A new video by the 5B highlights students' positive experiences at the centers.

Mental health task force in 'brainstorming stage'

Penn’s mental health task force is in the process of synthesizing information and developing recommendations aimed at improving mental health resources on campus, after conducting research and interviews last semester and over the summer.

National coverage of SP2 student's death gave incomplete timeline of University response

While, the Huffington Post said students and faculty would have liked more transparency and support, sources say this is not the whole story.

Students, faculty rally for mental health

On Monday afternoon, the Green Ribbon Campaign — a student-led mental health and wellness advocacy coalition — held its first rally to raise questions about the current state of mental heath on campus.

Class Boards to host mental wellness project

Class Boards plan to add to the mental health initiatives on campus and host the Wellness Project, working with CAPS to coordinate Mental Health Week and implementing Wellness Wednesdays.

Talking Circles: a new space for meditation

The first of a new series of semi-weekly "Talking Circles" was held on Friday evening at the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

After 12 years, a new look at mental health policy

Twelve years before Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced the creation of a task force to study mental health on campus, a similar committee presented its findings to Penn’s provost in June 2002.

Editorial | Minding the gap

Despite the abundance of degrees the committee members hold, however, there’s one glaring, crucial, inexcusable hole in this task force: a student voice. Indeed, on a committee responsible for assessing the state of mental health resources for students at Penn, there sit a whopping total of zero students.