September was National Suicide Prevention Month. Suicide has claimed the lives of many individuals and creates a chain effect of pain and loss to the families and friends who have felt the loss of it....
A suicide prevention training class was led by Allison Pearce, the assistant director of Healthy Campus Initiatives at the Wellness Center, on March 8. The class utilized the QPR Institute, which stands...
Healthy Campus Initiatives (HCI) hosted its fifth annual Student Mental Health Conference on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to bring awareness and advocate techniques to combat mental health issues at Rowan.
Six...
Riya Bhatt will helm initiatives to serve students in their communication with the Wellness Center - Photo via Rowan University
In regards to what many consider to be a mental health crisis at Rowan...
On April 24, the Wellness Center hosted Rowan’s fourth annual “Out of the Darkness Campus Walk.” To follow COVID-19 health and safety protocols, the New Jersey Chapter of the American Foundation...
What would you do if you noticed a family member or close friend behaving differently? Maybe the behavior is not the kind you want to see. Maybe this person hasn’t been coming around much or cut off...
The Rowan community received an email from university President Ali Houshmand early Tuesday morning detailing the steps that the university is taking to build a stronger community after hearing from students,...
Editor's Note: This op-ed contains discussion of suicide and mental health issues, and may be distressing or triggering for some readers. This article has also been updated to include information about...
Unlike the show’s name, there are many
more than 13 reasons why this show should have been canceled by now.
"13 Reasons Why" is a Netflix Original Series that first aired in 2017, based off of the...
We are about to finish our third week of the fall semester. Here I am, sitting among students on their laptops with focus and determination on their faces. It is still pretty early in the semester and...
The Wellness Center is on a yearlong quest to gather 1,300 reasons to live by April 2017. The new initiative, 1300 Reasons Why Not, helps to continue the discussion about why not to consider suicide.
"My...