With Mental Health Awareness Week in full swing, mental health is on everybody’s mind. With so many events and tables in the atrium, it would be difficult to not notice and think about mental health. But what about next week? Student Government Association created a new mental health advocate position at the end of last…
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Understaffed Counseling Center Scrambles to Meet Students’ Needs
As the national average for suicide and depression among college students continues to rise, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, Concordia’s understaffed Counseling Center is struggling to help students in need. The Counseling Center has four full-time staff members, and only two are licensed counselors. For a school of nearly 2,500 undergraduates, the…