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UMKC Counseling Services, located on Oak St., are available to all students.

Opinion: Hating Therapy Won’t Solve the Problem

Aurora Wilson, L&C Editor
September 25, 2023

  As conversations regarding mental health have risen in relevance, the push for people to go to therapy has too. With outspoken celebrities and politicians, a modern, positive narrative about going to seek treatment, one of acceptance, appeared.   Arguments against seeking...

A UMKC program called Roos for Mental Health is trying to raise awareness around campus about mental health stigma and self care. (Roos for Mental Health)

Roos for Mental Health tackles mental health stigma at UMKC

Cyrus Moffett
March 9, 2021

A UMKC program called Roos for Mental Health is trying to raise awareness around campus about mental health stigma and self care.  Chancellor Agrawal started the program in conjunction with the University’s Counseling Services and Disability Services back in 2019....

SGA October updates: hygiene resources, Roos Give Back and climate resilience

SGA to revive once rejected health referendum

Daisy Garcia Montoya
January 25, 2021

A health and wellness referendum that failed to pass in Spring 2020 is making its way into the Student Government Association (SGA) chambers once again. Speaker of the Senate Caroline Moriarty says that a health referendum is a priority of hers for the spring semester. “I...

Scofield Hall on UMKCs Volker Campus

UMKC students share advice with peers

Joeli Toscano
November 23, 2020

As the semester nears to a close, some UMKC students have shared advice and words of encouragement to fellow students during a year that has shaken the established norms of college life.. Caitlyn Quirk, a UMKC English major, said students should reach out for help and not...

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