Graduate Student Organization (GSO)GSO Guide to Student Life
So You're Not Getting Along with Anyone at All
Graduate school can be a wonderful time
full of happy moments and personal and intellectual growth. However, it also
has plenty of stress-inducing situations and everyone needs to have someone
to talk to at one time or another. Sometimes, just talking to your friends
in the hallway may not be enough or the right source for help. In these
situations it can be useful to get help outside of your scientific and
personal cohorts. A brief list of some resources available at the health
center and outside is provided here.
Counseling
Students employed as GRADUATE ASSISTANTS can contact Elizabeth Robinson with
the Employee Assistance Program at 860-679-2893. Non-GA students can
contact Debra Johnson or Pamela Skerker in the Department of Psychiatry at
860-679-6700.
There are also community-based services
(outside the UConn Health Center community) that provide specific crisis and
counseling services:
Al-Anon/Alateen: 888-825-2666
These organizations support people who have family members with alcoholism.
This number will give you an answering service that provides dates, times,
and locations of Al-Anon/Alateen meetings.
Alcoholics Anonymous:
860-282-5924
This number will give you an answering service that provides dates, times
and locations of AA meetings.
Cocaine
Anonymous Hotline: 860-871-4584
This is a recording that provides meeting times for Cocaine Anonymous, and
tells you how to receive a mailing of information on addiction. Another
phone number is also provided if you need more immediate help.
Domestic Violence:
Hartford Interval House:
860-527-0550
Trained crisis counselors answer this hotline 24 hours/day. The group
provides information, referrals, and emergency shelter for women (and their
children if needed). The group also organizes child and adult support groups
and provides victim advocates in the Hartford, Manchester and West Hartford
court systems. This hotline is frequently busy, so keep trying.
Domestic Violence:
Prudence Crandall Center for
Women-New Britain Crisis Line: 860-225-6357
This 24 hour hotline is staffed by crisis counselors who provide advocacy
and counseling services to victims of domestic violence. The services are
free and emergency shelter can be obtained for battered women and their
children.
Gamblers Anonymous: 203-777-5585
This is an answering service that provides the phone number of a person on
call who will talk to you. These people are on call only in a vague sense;
you might get an answering machine.
Narcotics
Anonymous: 860-828-3137
This number provides the times and locations of meetings in the area for
recovering narcotic addicts. The goal of these group meetings is to share
experiences and provide strength and hope.
Sexual Assault Crisis Hotline: 860-522-6666
This number is staffed by crisis counselors 24 hours/day. These counselors
talk to men, women and children who have experienced sexual assault. The
hotline counselors arrange appointments for one-on-one counseling and for
teen and adult support groups at the Hartford Regional YWCA at 135 Broad
Street, Hartford.
Suicide Hotline: The Samaritans:
860-232-2121
Private counseling services are covered to
various degrees by the health plans offered by the state. Refer to your
health plan summary for details. Also note that some private counseling
services bill on a sliding scale (fee is determined according to ability to
pay).
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