Mental Health

Are you looking for help?

If you are an SCC student and would like to to make an appointment, call the Clinic at 509-533-8611, come in and talk with anyone on our health care team, or click here. If you are a SFCC student, you can call 509-533-3525 and ask for a personal appointment.

The Student Health Clinic has a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, who comes in once a week by appointment. She provides both mental health counseling, as well as medication management as needed.

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Mental Health Therapy

Various therapeutic approaches can be used for mental health therapy. The course of treatment includes: individual, group, marriage, couple and family counseling. Therapists will outline goals with you and follow them to facilitate a positive outcome within ten sessions. Goal progress is reviewed and updated as needed, to successfully accomplish positive change. If you feel you need additional sessions, appropriate referrals will be made to clinicians in the community.

All sessions are held in strict confidence, and no information can be released about you without your written permission. Washington State Law provides the following exceptions to confidentiality:

1. When a client poses a clear and present danger to self, or to others, or is unable to provide minimal life-sustaining self-care;

2. When a client reveals contemplation of a major crime against another person, or harmful act;

3. When the counselor receives a court order to share information with a judge; or

4. If the counselor has a reasonable suspicion that a person, under the age of 18 or a dependent adult (aged or developmentally delayed), is, or has been, physically or sexually abused, or neglected. This report must occur within 48 hours of the counselor receiving such information.

The SEER (Supported Education and Employment Enhancing Rehabilitation) Program provides specially focused courses each quarter to support individuals facing mental health challenges. The non-credit classes help students gain skills that better enable students to succeed in their other courses. Topics include anxiety, organization, depression, self-care, journaling, financial literacy, and more. Students need not have an official diagnosis to participate. There is no cost to students for the SEER program. Classes are twice weekly, one hour each, and are all available in a face-to-face or synchronous online format. For more information, call 509-279-6033 or email paceservices@scc.spokane.edu.

Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Online Training 

We are excited to announce that the QPR Online Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Training is now available for Community Colleges of Spokane students, faculty, and staff. 

Learn the QPR method of suicide prevention through our online gatekeeper training in as little as one hour. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer: Three simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people training in CPR and first aid help saves thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. 

Step 1. Log on to: http://www.qprtraining.com/setup.php  

Step 2.  Organizational Code: BIGFOOT

Step 3. Enter your name and valid CCS email address (e.g. @scc.spokane.edu; @sfcc.spokane.edu; @ccs.spokane.edu; or @bigfoot.spokane.edu).

Step 4. Your User ID and password will be provided on screen and also emailed to the address you provided. 

Step 5. Begin training. 

If you have questions or difficulties during registration, please contact studentlife@scc.spokane.edu. 

Mental Health First Aid Training

Mental Health First Aid is an 8 – hour (total time commitment) virtual training that teaches skills to help someone who is experiencing a mental health crisis. The training is free to all CCS students, faculty, and staff. Participants learn about symptoms, crisis response, and active listening skills to support many mental health disorders, including: Depression; Anxiety, Trauma; Psychosis; and Substance Abuse. 

Pre-registration is required and course seating is limited to 25 participants. Online registration is available. Please see the schedule for upcoming scheduled trainings below:

Winter 2022 Dates TBA
Spring 2022 Dates TBA

This will be a two-day training for a total of 5.5 hours.

If you have a campus organization or department of at least 15 people interested in taking the course (outside of the scheduled times above) and would like to schedule a training for your department/organization, please contact us to schedule at studentlife@scc.spokane.edu.