UC Irvine Giving Day 2025

The UC Irvine Counseling Center is the primary counseling and mental health agency for UC Irvine undergraduate and graduate students. The UC Irvine Counseling Center provides a variety of services, including therapy and outreach and prevention to help students achieve optimal mental health for academic success, personal growth, and increased capacity to cope with the stresses of being a university student. The center strives to elevate the student experience and create pathways to success through a wide range of multiculturally based clinical, outreach, prevention, and training services. 

The Counseling Center’s outreach and prevention services provide a unique opportunity to empower, educate, and reach our student body. Your gift to the Wellness Health Counseling Services fund enables the Counseling Center to interact with the UC Irvine student community in creative and innovative ways, outside of the therapeutic room, to reduce mental health stigma and prevent suicide. 

The years Outreach and Prevention Services needs include:

National Depression Screening Day

National Depression Screening Day is a health screening day that provides a quick and easy way to spot the first signs of mental health distress. This year we provided mental health screenings to over 100 students. Major Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses, affection more than 16 million American adults each year. 

Mental Health Resource Fair

The Mental Health Resource Fair is a collaborative event with campus and community vendors providing resource and service information to our UC Irvine Student community. All vendors have a mental health focus but also services targeting our LGBTQ, LatinX, AAPI, and Black/African American populations. Last year we had over 200 students in attendance!

Awareness Week Initiatives and Campaigns

Awareness Week Initiatives and Campaigns (Sleep Awareness Week; National Eating Disorder Awareness Week; Suicide Prevention Week; National Coming Out Day; Survivors of Suicide Loss Day; Sexual Assault Awareness Month, etc.). The Counseling Center hosts a variety of programs and events for several awareness weeks throughout the year to bring awareness and education to our campus community. 

Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Awareness Programs

Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Awareness Programs (Green Bandana Campaign, Question, Persuade, and Refer Training). Bringing awareness and education around Suicide Prevention to our campus community is very important to hopefully prevent suicide and suicidal ideation and behaviors amongst our student population.

Art of Healing Showcase

The Art of Healing Showcase is a program designed to help students empower themselves and others, as well as decrease mental health stigma by exhibiting visual artwork created by our very own UC Irvine students. 

Collaborative Relationships with Campus Partners

The Counseling Center values building a community of care. We have collaborative liaison relationships with many Student Affairs departments on campus and student organizations. We routinely hold workshops, programs, trainings, and other events with our campus partners to help reach a wider student body and bring mental health awareness outside of the clinical room! 

*Photo is from our Mental Health Awareness Basketball Game at the Bren Center (Collaboration between Athletics Department and Counseling Center

*Photo is from our 2025 International Coffee Hour Lunar New Year Celebration (Collaboration with International Center and Counseling Center) 

Last year outreach and prevention services reached over 23,000 students, faculty, staff, and community members on the UC Irvine campus. Outreach and prevention services, along with providing Suicide Prevention Trainings to over 343 students, faculty, and staff. These services and programs allow an opportunity for us to reach marginalized communities, reduce stigma around mental health and help seeking, along with preventing students from needing therapy by providing them tools and psychoeducation. 

Your gift could help safe a life and bring Mental Health awareness to the UC Irvine campus community! Help us in spreading messages of hope! 

For more information about our services and the center please go to: https://counseling.uci.edu/