Student Health and Wellness
How Are You Feeling?
What We Do
Student Health and Wellness at Porterville College supports students demonstrating social, emotional, and/or behavioral concerns impacting their ability to fully participate in daily instruction, social activities, or their overall educational experience. Student Health and Wellness is a resource for students to meet and discuss important issues in a confidential setting. We offer services specializing in individual counseling, in-person or remotely, so you can meet in the comfort of your own home. We’re here to support you as you deal with the complexities of college. A Wellness Counselor is available to meet with students via walk-in and/or appointments. Visit the Wellness Counselor located in Student Services. Please call 559-791-2329 to schedule your appointment today.
Mission Statement
Student Health and Wellness provides free, confidential, and professional mental health counseling to help Porterville College students manage everyday stressors so those stressors do not interfere with their academic success. Sessions, training, and interventions will offer emotional and behavioral support to the Porterville College community.
Objectives
- Provide crisis care for students in distress
- Offer confidential support for emotional and behavioral concerns
- Provide care and resources to the Porterville College community
- Provide support for students facing non-academic barriers to their learning
What is BIT?
Introducing Timely Care
Resources
- Academic Counseling
- Timely Care (Free Tele-Health Care for Students)
- County Mental Health
- Veterans Administration
- Mental Health is Health
- Department of Rehabilitation
- Emergency Housing
- Food Pantry at Porterville College
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- NAMI Tulare County
- California Youth Crisis Hotline
- Domestic Violence Hotline
- RAINN Sexual Violence Hotline
Screening Tools
Free mental health screenings and other valuable resources are available at the following links:
Campus Safety & Security Presentations
- Anxiety Disorders: Understanding and helping someone with anxiety
- College Safety Tips
- How to Protect Yourself & Others
- Drug Free Schools and Community Act
- Human Trafficking Awareness
- Initial Action Duck & Cover
- Initial Actions Lock-down Procedures
- Extreme Heat
- Mental Health Awareness
- Know the Signs-Suicide Prevention
- Human Trafficking
- Sexual Assault Awareness
- Sexual Assault & the LGBTQIA Community
- 10 Tips to Manage Stress
- Women's History Month
- Initial Actions: Shelter-In-Place
- Porterville College Celebrates Black History Month
- Understanding Consent
- Stalking
- PC Stay Safe: Initial Actions - Crisis Response Plan
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Winter Weather Safety & Safe Driving Tips
- Four Areas to Focus Prevention Efforts - Back to School
Examples of some of PC Campus Well's Articles:
- Why reporting sexual assault is a complex and personal decision
- 10 ways to cut back on caffeine without turning into a zombie
- How to respond to microaggressions (and when to walk away)
- Ask the health educator: “How do I deal with the pressure to be sexually active?”
- The power of body positivity, and why weight stigma matters
