Willie E. Gary Student Center
919-546-8284 Main

Regular Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday-Friday

MISSION
The Counseling Center's focus is to maintain the emotional and psychological well being of our students. In order for our students to succeed in their chosen fields of study they have to be free of emotional and psychological distress. Stress, depression, relationship issues, and dependencies are major factors in our students' failure to compete academically. The Counseling Center endeavors to plan, organize, implement and evaluate programs that provide for personal-social counseling, referral services and general guidance that helps to prepare and accommodate students to college life and ultimately retention and graduation. The Counseling Center is committed to providing confidential services for our diverse population who otherwise might not have or take the opportunity to receive these services.

GOALS
To attain the outcomes identified in the mission statement, the Counseling Center established the following goals:

• Expand current programs to insure that all students are served.
• Provide ongoing information to students in order to help them make informed decisions regarding emotional and psychological issues that confront them.
• Provide direct services for substance abuse.
• Provide services and support groups to assist the student community in coping and survival skills.
• Increase effectiveness of Disability Services.
• Increase outreach services to enhance and increase visibility of the Counseling Center.
• Continue to upgrade and utilize technology.
• Implement the use of a satisfaction survey to monitor student satisfaction.
• Develop new positive lifestyles without the use of drugs and alcohol.

SERVICES PROVIDED

• Individual Counseling
• Support Groups
• Student Disability Services
• Workshops
• Assessments
• Substance Abuse counseling
• Peer Educators

Individual Counseling: Confidential counseling is provided for students who have personal concerns, difficulties adjusting to the college and other stressors with daily living. Individual counseling is short-term in nature. Services are available if long-term treatment is necessary.

Support Groups: Support groups are available on a continual and as-needed basis. Students can request for specific support groups to be implemented.

Student Disability Services: The mission of the Disability Services Program in general is to offer quality services and reasonable and effective accommodations to students with disabilities in order to enhance their academic success, participation in educational programs, and quality of campus life. Shaw University does not discriminate in the recruitment, admission, educational process, or treatment of disabled individuals, pursuant to the requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Since assessment constitutes the basis for determining reasonable accommodations, it is in the student's best interest to provide recent and appropriate documentation, which will serve as the basis for the student's need for accommodations. Another part of the Disability Services Program is to help students to become better advocates for them. As effective self-advocates, students learn to speak and act for themselves. The Counseling Center provides services for students with permanent and/or temporary disabilities to ensure all university programs are accessible. Each qualified person, based on accurate documentation, will receive appropriate accommodations to ensure equal access to educational opportunities and activities in the most integrated setting possible. For additional information, contact Mrs. Jerelene Carver, Director of the Counseling Center 919-546-8525

Workshops/Seminars: Each month workshops or seminars are available for students. Workshops vary in topics such as: Alcohol Awareness, Stress Management, Time Management, Conflict Resolution, Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Violence Against Women and Men, Dating and relationships etc.

Substance Abuse counseling will be provided in an assertive and positive effort to empower the administration, faculty, staff and students to maintain an addiction free campus. The addiction professional will conduct workshops and provide both individual and group sessions. The Shaw University has a Zero tolerance policy regarding drugs and alcohol. Students receive optimal care, treatment, and education relevant to drug and alcohol prevention. Peer educators have been established to make recommendations, and provide practical strategies for greater communications among the entire campus. Any student who violates our drug policy will be referred to our Judicial Affairs division. For additional information, contact Mr. Damen Cromwell, Substance Abuse Counselor at 919-546-8283.

Assessments:

Standardized Instruments used, but not limited to, include the following:

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Used in education to analyze and improve curriculum, to identify learning styles, to build teachers, administrators, and students' relationships, and for student advising.
• College Adjustment Scale: Identifies problems frequently experienced by college students, and assesses nine areas of adjustment.
• The Coping Inventory: Assesses adaptive and maladaptive coping habits, skills and behaviors.
• The Basic Personality Inventory: Identifies maladjustment and personal strengths.
• Substance Abuse assessment and evaluation

COUNSELING CENTER RESOURCES
The following is a list of disability-related websites and organizations intended to provide additional information to students, parents, faculty, and staff. This list is for informational purposes only and does not guarantee the accuracy, relevancy, timeliness, or completeness of this outside information. This is not all- inclusive and users are encouraged to research for additional information.

DISABILITY RESOURCES

Disability Services Handbook

"Driven to Distraction", Ed Hallowell MD, and John Ratey MD, Pantheon

"You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?" Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo Tyrel and Jerem Press

National Resume Database for Students with Disabilities

www.business-disability.com

LDA
Learning Disabilities Association of America
www.ldanatl.org

The International Dyslexia Association
www.interdys.org

NCLD
National Center for Learning Disabilities
www.ncld.org

NICHCY
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
www.nichcy.org

AHEAD
Association on Higher Education and Disability
www.ahead.org

RFBD
Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic
www.rfbd.org.

Fed World Home page
www.fedworld.gov/

SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Alcoholism
http://www.epiphanyhouse.org/resources/articles/signs.html

The World's largest online library of information: search Substance Abuse
www.questia.com

COUNSELING
www.psychology.com
www.apa.org

HIV/AIDS
www.hivatis.org
www.hivpositive.com
www.thebody.com

Staff

Mrs. Jerelene F. Carver, MA, AC
Director of the Counseling Center
919-546-8525
jcarver@shawu.edu

Mr. Damen Cromwell, MA
Substance Abuse Counselor
919-546-8283
dcromwell@shawu.edu