Retriever Integrated Health Launches ‘Reach Out Retrievers’
Retriever Integrated Health (RIH) is creating pathways for our entire community to work together in supporting a campus culture dedicated to well-being where every student thrives.
Reach Out Retrievers is RIH’s new initiative to help our community to encourage and facilitate prompt action and a network of care and support.
To equip our campus with supportive educational resources, Reach Out Retrievers directs UMBC’s community members to multiple online options:
- Togetherall–a safe online community where students can seek and offer peer support while expressing themselves anonymously. Clinically managed by trained practitioners, Togetherall also offers self-guided courses offering tips on stress management, improving sleep habits, and more.
- WellTrack–an interactive self-help app that helps users better take care of their mental health by learning how to identify and address depression, anxiety, stress, and more.
- Kognito–an interactive training that helps students, faculty, and staff support members of the UMBC campus, by being able to recognize and identify the warning signs of distress while fostering effective communication techniques between parties. Staff and faculty can learn self-reflection strategies, practice conversational methods to address a person in need, and tap into available support services.
Undergraduate and graduate students have told us about the obstacles and challenges they are facing, both at home and on campus. We know that staff and faculty are also facing challenges while trying to find ways to support students. The day-to-day demands of college life, exacerbated by global events, continue to exact significant physical and emotional tolls. Students, staff, and faculty alike might be feeling overwhelmed, anxious, uncertain, unnoticed, marginalized, lonely, and so much more.
Reach Out Retrievers is intended to encourage connection–when we need someone to listen and when we need to support others in need. More than ever, we need to work together to support our community, and, at the same time, break the stigma around mental health.
Reach Out Retrievers at health.umbc.edu/ReachOutRetrievers and help spread the word.
Posted: May 5, 2022, 1:52 PM
