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.
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 Mini-Grants
These grants increase capacity for student organizations who want to host campus programming focused on mental health promotion and suicide prevention. Official or registered student organizations who are hosting a program, event or creating a project that directly focuses on promoting mental health can apply for the grants.
Applications have closed this fall. The spring application will be available January 27th, 2025.
2024-2025 Awardees
- SKY Meditation and Wellness
- SPIC Macay Chapter at UT Austin
- Epsilon Iota Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
- Asian Business Association
- Latinx Graduate Student Association
- Women in Medicine
- Students of Caribbean Ancestry
- Black Women’s Wellness Organization
- Longhorn Squash Club
- Student Health Advisory Committee
- The Association of Black Psychologists
- Graduates for Underrepresented Minorities
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.