SAIC Wellness | Health & Well-Being Resources for Students

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Supporting the Whole Student

SAIC’s Wellness Center provides empathic and compassionate support and care dedicated to ensuring that every SAIC student's experience is a successful one.

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Counseling Services

Assists students in meeting their emotional, psychological, and mental health needs and contributes to a campus environment that facilitates the healthy growth and development of students.

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Disability & Learning Resource Center

The Disability and Learning Resource Center (DLRC) supports a universally accessible educational community that fosters full participation and contribution of everyone.

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Health Services

Health Services provides quality healthcare to SAIC students and to encourage students to focus on their physical and emotional well-being.

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Caring for Your Health

The Wellness Center will continue to provide services–support for students and faculty/staff consultation about student support matters–remotely, via video and/or telephone and will also be offering masked, in-person appointments. Additionally, below you can find a list of resources for mental and emotional health issues, telehealth services, and anti-racism.

Jed Foundation Mental Health Resource Center for Young Adult Emotional Health and Wellbeing: Provides essential information about common emotional health issues and shows teens and young adults how they can support one another, overcome challenges and make a successful transition to adulthood.
National Alliance on Mental Illness: NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Taking Care of Your Emotional Health
4 Things to Try When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed
Grounding Techniques: Seated 3-Minute Body Scan
AHP Live Care: Free Telehealth (including psychotherapy and psychiatry) for SAIC students with the SAIC Student Health Insurance Plan. Available to students with other insurance plans, but there may be a cost based on those individual plans. AHP Live Care User Guide.
AHP Student Assistance Program: 24/7 number: A FREE Student Support Service that can help with Crisis Assessment/Intervention and Referrals. Call: (855) 850-4301 or text “hello” to 61295 to for immediate and crisis support.
MyLifeMatters.com is the website for AHP SAP. The password for the website is AHP1. International students can collect call the SAP for “telephonic” sessions at 262.574.2509. International list of MyLifeMatters.com Crisis Hotlines.
AHP Academic Emergency Services (AES): This group provides a wide range of services and benefits to prepare for your international experience, including referrals to local providers and access to prescriptions. They can also help facilitate international travel for medical emergencies, and international referrals for physical health and mental health treatment.
Now Matters Now: Skills and Support for Coping with Suicidal Thoughts

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Need Help ASAP?

If you or someone you know needs help immediately, take one of the following actions:

Call 9-1-1

Text HOME to the Crisis Text Line 741-741

Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255)

Call the SAIC Counseling Services After Hours line at 312-499-4271

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Wellness Center Staff

SAIC’s Wellness Center was recognized in 2016 with the Active Minds Healthy Campus Award for excellence in pursuing a comprehensive, public health approach to student health and wellness. Meet your health and wellness team.