Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention Program
The Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention Program at UT Austin offers initiatives and opportunities to create a connected, empowered body of faculty, staff, and students who actively promote mental health and prevent suicide. These initiatives focus on both enhancing and growing mental health in our community, as well as addressing risk factors and reducing harm around suicide.
Longhorns Listen: Suicide Prevention Training
Join us for the Longhorn Wellness Center's interactive Longhorns Listen: Suicide Prevention Training. This engaging training will provide you with the skills to recognize warning signs, engage with empathy and connect individuals to the right resources.
Open to all students, faculty and staff. Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, Nov. 19
2-3:30 p.m.
CBA 3.304
Initiatives
Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention Workshops
Our program offers workshops to empower you to contribute to a caring campus environment. These offerings develop knowledge and skills that teach mental health promoting practices or address risk factors to reduce harm and create a supportive community. Workshops offered include:
- Taking Care of Yourself and Others
- Healthy Relationships
- Active Listening and Supportive Communication
- Strategies for Stress Management
- Coping With and Growing from Failure
- Supporting Someone in Distress (offered for students, faculty and staff)
- Longhorns Listen: Suicide Prevention Training (offered for students, faculty and staff)
Mental Health Topics
Visit our Healthyhorns health topics page for a variety of information on mental health and preventing suicide.
How to Get Involved
- Become a peer educator or mental health peer supporter
- Attend a training or event on campus.
- Request a workshop for your group.
If you have questions about the Longhorn Wellness Center’s suicide prevention and mental health promotion efforts, email longhornwellnesscenter@austin.utexas.edu.