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ways to improve your emotional wellness:- Aim for 7-9 hours of sleep each night.
- Make time to connect with your support network often.
- Learn to build resilience and bounce back in the face of adversity.
- Learn how you can help a friend in distress.
- If you're struggling with mental health, make an appointment with a mental health professional.
Flagstaff area crisis numbers
- Jacks Care 24/7: Jacks Care 24/7 services and support are offered through our partnership with TELUS Health for all NAU students regardless of campus location or on-line student status: 866-656-9983
- NAU Counseling Services: 928-523-2261
- NAU Police: 928-523-3611
- Crisis response Network: 877-756-4090
- NAU Employee Assistance and Wellness: (928) 523-1552
- Solari Crisis and Human Services
National crisis numbers
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255 or text “Start” to 741-741
- The Trevor Lifeline (Suicide Prevention for LGBTQ Youth) 1-866-488-7386
- Veterans’ Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255
Upcoming Live Well NAU events
Emotional Wellness
Emotional wellness invokes a sense of self awareness, resilience and emotional intelligence. An emotionally well individual has the ability to identify, express and manage their emotions in healthy and positive ways. An important skill of the emotionally well individual is the ability to identify positive and effective coping strategies for stressful or taxing situations.
Student Resources Accordion Open
Several programs and services may be offered virtually. Those items are denoted with an * below.
Mental health resources
- Counseling Services*: Attend an individual, couples, or group counseling session to find support your mental wellbeing.
- College of Education Practicum Lab*: Sign up for free individual counseling from Graduate Students in the Department of Education Psychology’s graduate programs.
- QPR: Attend an in person session to learn how to help a student in crisis.
- Let’s Talk Mental Health Consultations: Campus Health Services wants to support you! Swing by any time during our Let’s Talk events for a FREE 15-minute behavioral health consultation with a licensed clinician and receive personalized feedback on resources, coping skills, and options for support in a non-judgmental space. Additionally, enjoy a relaxing 5-minute backrub from our Stressbusters crew and make new connections through plenty of activities that support your mental health. No appointment necessary!
- UCAN Health Coaching*: Sign up for low cost peer health coaching to learn stress management skills.
Self care resources
- Jacks Care 24/7: Jacks Care 24/7 services and support are offered through our partnership with TELUS Health for all NAU students regardless of campus location or on-line student status.
- Resource List for Students of Color+Allies*: Counseling, apps, and websites that support the mental wellbeing of People of Color.
- Bites & Hikes: Take a stroll along one of several pre-marked walking courses on campus.
- Center for American Indian Resilience: Participate in a resilience building program or activity.
- FIT Programs: Sign up for a for-credit fitness class to get moving.
- Campus Recreation Services: Explore physical activity resources on campus to help support your mental wellbeing.
- Student Resource Guide*: Identify mental health and other on campus support resources.
- Online Mental Health Resources*: Explore online resources to learn how to help a friend, manage your stress, and more.
Employee Resources Accordion Closed
Counseling and training resources
- Employee Assistance and Wellness (EAW): Access counseling, groups, workshops, presentations, consultation, and/or critical incident response for employees and their adult dependents.
- QPR: Attend an in person session to learn how to help a student in crisis.
- College of Education Practicum Lab: Access short-term counseling each semester.
- Guide for how to support students through counseling services: Help a student get access to mental health services through Campus Health and Counseling Services.
- Personal Training: Reach your fitness goals with a trainer!
- UCAN Health Coaching: Sign up for low cost health coaching.
Self care resources
- Bites & Hikes: Take a stroll along one of several pre-marked walking courses on campus.
- Center for American Indian Resilience: Learn more about community assets, e.g., the role of traditional knowledge, collective memory and cultural strategies in teaching health behaviors and supporting positive health outcomes.
- Commission on Disability Access and Design: Participated in the vision of a university community free from physical and attitudinal barriers to services, programs and activities through Universal Design.
- Commission on Ethnic Diversity: Participate in creating community environments that reflect the struggles and successes of communities of color in both the United States and in global contexts.
- Commission for Native Americans: Participate in the conversation to consider, evaluate, and analyze all matters pertaining to Native Americans at Northern Arizona University.
- Commission on the Status of Women: Help make NAU a welcoming, diverse, and family friendly community that serves as a model of gender equity.
- Employee Assistance and Wellness (EAW): Access counseling, groups, workshops, presentations, consultation, and/or critical incident response for employees and their adult dependents.
- FIT Programs for employees: Engage in a fitness class for a reasonable price at the Rolle Center on South Campus.
- Flagstaff Urban Trails: Hike, walk, or bike on trails around Flagstaff.
- Mental Health Resources: Access additional mental health resources for employees and their adult dependents.
- University Police: Connect with NAUPD.