New centre offers both mental health and walk-in services exclusively to students of the University of Ottawa and Saint Paul University.
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To lose the campus walk-in, is to lose the one place on campus where students in crisis could go for immediate support — no online forms, phone intakes, or months of waiting.
On Aug. 30, the ByWard family health clinic, formerly known as the Marie-Curie Clinic, announced significant changes to its services.
Starting Monday, the University of Ottawa Health Services is shifting all family medicine appointments to telephone calls for the next week or so amid growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in the city.
Five students with mental health issues point to gaps in the school’s mental health system, including staggeringly long wait times, poor training of professors, and a lack of specialized counsellors.
We call on the university administration to immediately implement a number of changes to their mental health care system to better support students in need.
In the wake of four University of Ottawa student deaths in the past eight months, students are pushing the administration to implement concrete changes to its mental health services. A petition with close to 3,000 signatures is asking the university to hire more professionals and implement more training for staff and professors.
The U of O needs a secondary walk-in clinic on campus. As the student population grows, so will wait times. There’s a plethora of walk-in clinics on Rideau, but who wants to venture out that far when they’re coughing up a lung?
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In the future, a more streamlined approach to handling government-funded investments would result in the right aid being distributed at the right time.
How the University of Ottawa wants to help bring awareness to students’ well being.
The University of Ottawa Health Services has cut its two on-staff psychologists in what it has called a “reorganization” of mental health services offered by the university.
Missing a pet back at home? The University of Ottawa’s Student Academic Success Service and Health Services have teamed up with a solution in the form of “pet therapy.”
The U of O has a team of eight students working with Leave the Pack Behind to promote awareness of the services they offer to support faculty, staff, and students who want to quit smoking.
Throughout January, volunteers and employees at the Health Promotion division of the University of Ottawa’s Health Services have been offering free fair-trade hot chocolate at various locations on campus.
