Prevention and outreach allows for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) staff to connect, educate and intervene with the larger UCF community and ultimately strengthen our “community of caring.” Providing education and prevention to university students, faculty and staff is often called outreach.

Outreach is a broad term and includes facilitating workshops (e.g., stress management, introduction to mental health services, how to help someone in distress), forming liaison relationships with units and departments focused on student needs, consulting between faculty, staff, parents and concerned students about a student who may be in distress, and being present at numerous events.

Through prevention and outreach, CAPS is able to reach numerous students, from those who are interested in learning more about college student mental health and may benefit from gaining information about the variety of services CAPS has to offer, to those who may want to know more about how to help a friend, to reaching out to those students who may experience too much stigma to actually feel comfortable seeking therapy. CAPS creates a web of support not only for students, but also encourages staff and faculty involvement through a variety of education and prevention efforts.

• SDES 5 Pillars of Well-Being
• Goals of Outreach Services and Developmental Programming
• CAPS YouTube Page with Self-Help Videos

 

WORKSHOPS

Each semester, CAPS offers a variety of drop-in free workshops focused on developing skills or exploring topics that help students.

Click HERE for more information about workshops and to see current list of Spring 2023 workshops.

All workshops are offered virtually through Zoom at this time.

 

CAPS PROGRAMS

Signature Programs:

CAPS offers a number of programs and activities each academic year that highlights mental health themes, issues, and/or awareness days to help increase mental health literacy at UCF. Click HERE above to learn more about:

• Paws-a-tively Events
• Field of Memories
• Healthy Knights Expo
• The B.L.A.C.K. Institute/Series

Other CAPS-related initiatives:

• Autism Acceptance
• SafeZone
• Caring Actions to Provide Safety (Suicide Prevention Program)
• CAPS Peer Educators: Helping you to become more mentally fi
• Bodhi’s Corner
• Togetherall
• Therapy Assistance Online (TAO)
• Mental Health (CCMH) Screener
• Active Minds (Student Organization)
• Kognito -Mental Health Bystander Training (Students, and Staff/Faculty modules)

 

Outreach

If you are interested in learning more about the presentations CAPS offer, check out our Available Presentation list. If you are interested in having one of our clinicians facilitate a presentation, help with a tabling, conduct an interview, or respond to a crisis,  complete the Request an Outreach form (see below). A member of our staff will contact you within 24-72 hours.

Please note: Due to an increase in direct clinical services, we may not be able to fulfil all requests for outreach during the end of the semester (usually the last month). Please know that we will make recommendations for other campus offices that may be able to assist. We do not offer outreach services on the weekends or past 6pm during the week unless we are responding to a crisis situation. In addition, In order to give our staff enough time to schedule and prepare the presentation, 3 weeks’ notice is required.  

If you attended an Outreach event, please complete this Evaluation Form: Click here

GET INVOLVED & VOLUNTEER

If you are a student and would like to get involved with spreading mental health literacy at UCF, then consider becoming a CAPS Volunteer. There are different ways to get experience, check out the links below:

Peer Educators Program

Student Involvement