We offer a wide range of programming through Outreach Services, including services for your student group, academic department, residential hall, campus or community program.
Listening spaces offer a place for students to process community tragedies or hardship together.
Common Workshop topics include:
Visit our Services page for more information on the many services we provide for MSU students. This information can be used as a resource to share CAPS services at this time. If you are in need of critical incident/crisis support, please contact our 24/7 CAPS Crisis Line at (517) 355-8270, ext. 1 for crisis support.
Outreach is our means of reaching outside the physical walls of the CAPS center and engaging in the lives of those connected to our MSU community — students, parents/guardians, faculty, staff, administrators and surrounding communities.
The outreach component of our services includes a variety of programming and consultation activities in which counseling staff members are involved in awareness, education, prevention and collaboration. We do this by providing informational services, workshops, campus-wide programming, consultation and student peer support, among other ways of engaging our community.
In keeping with the philosophy that ‘multiculturally-focused [and] inclusive,’ outreach is necessarily culturally sensitive and racially responsive, with multiple outlets for collaboration and community engagement.
In line with our public health and wellness framework, outreach is a proactive, developmental and necessary intervention in prevention, focused on building awareness, reducing stigma and increasing help-seeking behavior on our campus.
Finally, outreach efforts modeled after our MSU Mission are “innovative, research-driven and lead to a better quality of life.”
Outreach services are provided through a broad range of CAPS staff and supporters, including:
Any member of the CAPS Center can be involved in programming and consultation, including specialized outreach services provided by and in connection with these groups: