Finding help

Student Accessibility Services

Get help from an accessibility professional. We provide services and support to foster an accessible educational experience for students with disabilities. We’ll assist you in achieving your academic goals and will facilitate academic accommodation supports to students with a documented permanent disability or temporary ongoing medical, mental health, and/or cyclical health condition which is affecting academic functioning. Services and accommodation are determined individually.

Students are responsible for contacting us to initiate services. New students can register with us by completing the New Student Registration Form, found at: brocku.ca/health-wellness-accessibility/sas/ new-students/registration. Please visit our website for documentation guidelines and summer transition programs: brocku.ca/health-wellness-accessibility/sas sasnewstudent@brocku.ca

Personal Counselling Services

Trying to balance school, work, friends, family, personal care, and all the responsibilities of being on your own for the first time can sometimes feel overwhelming and stressful. If you are feeling stuck and are not sure where to turn, we can help.

Our confidential counselling services are free to Brock University students. You may come to our centre due to mental health concerns or other emotional, social, and personal difficulties. We can help with addressing concerns with respect to relationships, depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, sexuality, self-confidence, alcohol and drug misuse, just to name a few. Whatever your reason for seeking counselling, we are here to help you so that you have a positive university experience. You are not alone. Individual, group, and information sessions are available.

Life Works counsellors deliver telephone counselling sessions and in-person counselling in the Brock Student Wellness and Accessibility offices on the fourth floor of Schmon Tower (ST400). To make an appointment call 1 833 BROCK 33. Students can also receive urgent 24/7 telephone counselling by calling 1 833 BROCK33 or download the MYSSP app for 24/7 access via chat.

From Intention to Action (FITA)

If you are a student undergoing mental health challenges and not coping with your course load, FITA can help. Students who join the FITA program have access to mental health counselling as well as learning and study strategy development. Specifically, if you join the FITA program, you will be asked to participate in three psychological questionnaires. After the questionnaires are reviewed, you will meet with a FITA counsellor who will then work with you in a series of 12 weekly, one-on-one, 1-hour counselling sessions to address your academic and mental health goals. If you are interested in joining the FITA program, you can apply online using the online application form at brocku.ca/personal-counselling/fita and the FITA Coordinator will be in touch with you!

Student Health Services

Student Health Services (SHS) is a confidential and comprehensive service with a team of nurses, physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and administrative staff working together to manage your medical and health needs. Student Health Services is located in Harrison Hall, next to Campus Safety Services. Appointments can be booked by calling 905 688 5550 x3243. Book an appointment for things like mental health concerns, alcohol/drug concerns, dressings, health exams, immunizations or injections, STI testing, suture removal, and wart treatment.

SHS also runs urgent care walk-in clinics, staffed by SHS doctors and medical staff, each morning and afternoon at our Campus Pharmacy site in Heritage Plaza. For the urgent care clinic visit our website to book a same day appointment. Visit one of our urgent care walk-in clinics for things like birth control repeats, bladder infections, earaches, eye infections, fever, flu, sore throats/cough/colds, sprains, or yeast infections.

You will need to present a valid health card (OHIP, UHIP, etc.) at your appointment.

905 688 5550 x3243 brocku.ca/health-wellness-accessibility

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The HUB

The HUB is a space where students can drop in to chat with a Peer Health Educator about ways to improve their overall health and wellness. Students can expect to get connected to resources and groups available to them on campus from a wide variety of topic areas, including but not limited to:

• mental health

• sexual health

• sleep

• physical activity

• nutrition

• healthy relationships

• stress

The HUB is located in Thistle TH 134, just off the Marketplace, down the hall from Learning Services.

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Faith and Life Centre

The Faith and Life Centre is located on the beautiful Bruce Trail in Alphie’s Trough. It is a safe, inclusive, and accessible space focused on creating opportunities for community, education, counseling, and support for students of all religious, spiritual, and secular identities.

Events and opportunities include:

• religious celebrations and holidays

• interfaith communities

• community events and discussions

• spiritual studies

• Jummah prayer, Sunday mass, and mid-week worship

• daily drop-in study space in the Faith and Life Centre brocku.ca/student-life-success/faith-and-life

The Faith and Life Centre is supported by University-sponsored Chaplains from a variety of religious identities. Chaplains offer spiritual support, personal guidance, and small 'c' counselling for the whole Brock University community. No matter who you are or what you believe, you are welcome here.

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