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.
Mental Health 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)
Longhorns Listen Suicide Prevention Initiative
Longhorns Listen Workshop
Longhorns Listen is an interactive workshop for all members of the UT community, equipping participants with the skills to recognize warning signs, engage in empathetic conversations, and connect those in need to the right resources. By listening with empathy, asking difficult questions, and offering support, every Longhorn can build a stronger, healthier community together. You can be part of this important program.
Become a Facilitator
Through our facilitation training, faculty, staff, and graduate students can learn to deliver the Longhorns Listen workshop themselves, expanding our reach and helping more Longhorns learn to show up for one another.
Facilitators must be able to commit to leading a minimum of two Longhorns Listen workshops per academic year.
Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Topic Pages
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.