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.
Join Us for "Longhorns Listen: Suicide Prevention Training" on World Suicide Prevention Day
Longhorns Listen: Suicide Prevention Training is a new, interactive training designed for UT students, faculty and staff. This session will equip you with the skills to recognize warning signs, engage in empathetic conversations and connect those in need to the right resources
Open to all campus members—faculty, staff, and students. Light refreshments will be served.
September 10, 2024
3:30-5 p.m. CST
Gregory Games Lounge, Gregory Gym
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 will be open from September 2 to November 15 this Fall.
How to Get Involved
- Become a peer educator or mental health peer support specialist
- 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.