PFW Center for Student Counseling

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Come in out to the Mastodon Market today until 1:30 under the skybridge by Walb! Enjoy some tunes, buy produce and plants, get free student mental health resources. We will be here the next three weeks on Thursdays from 11:30-1:30!

Thank you for making Ziggy Smile! You can donate to Purdue Fort Wayne’s Day of Giving til midnight tonight!



https://dayofgiving.pfw.edu/

It’s the Purdue Fort Wayne Day of Giving! Let’s try to put a smile on Ziggy’s face and raise some money to support the mission of the Center for Student Counseling in the Division of Campus and Community Wellbeing! Check back around 6pm to see if we could get Ziggy to smile!

Thanks for your support- even $10 makes a HUGE difference to the work we do for students!

https://dayofgiving.pfw.edu/donate

The Center for Student Counseling will have an election quiet space Tuesday and Wednesday 9am-4pm in the CSC Training Room. The training room will be a reflective space for students to calm their minds and bodies with low lighting and calming music. We will have coffee/tea, snacks, coloring pages, sand trays, and fidgets. The Mastodon Relaxation Zone will also be open as normal.

When the natural life at PFW forces you to slow down and enjoy the day….. even if you are late for class!

This is amazing. No matter what kind of day you are having, we hope this energy gives you a boost!

Today’s not just another Wednesday—it’s Purdue Fort Wayne’s Day of Giving. We at the Student Counseling Center would love your support. We are working on continuing to provide high quality, free counseling services to every student on our campus who needs it! The Center opened in August of 2023 and we have tripled the amount of counseling available to students in just a few short months. We look forward to being able to grow our services in the upcoming academic year. Your support, even a small donation, would make an immediate impact! Click the link below to contribute directly to the Center for Student Counseling:

https://dayofgiving.pfw.edu/campaigns/student-counseling-center

Join the Big Give and help turn our Mastodons’ dreams into realities. Learn more at pfw.edu/dayofgiving.

Going to brag for a minute about the great staff we have at the Center for Student Counseling…. Many of whom were honored for their hard work at the Student Leader Awards last night.

Congratulations to Drake Turner for winning both Graudate Student Employee of the Year and the Spirit of the Mastodon awards. Drake has been fantastic in helping to open the center and he truly exemplifies all that is best about our students here at PFW- he is committed, reliable, passionate, and full of life energy! And he’s a darn good therapist to boot!

Our Director, Gia Casaburo was honored with the Student Supervisor of the Year award. She has taken on more and more over the past year and is one of the most welcoming, compassionate, and caring leaders/supervisors I have ever seen. We are so lucky to have her supervising our counselors at the center!

I was surprised to be awarded the Service to Students award, and very honored to be nominated and thought of in this way. I love PFW and our students, and have been pleased to see the Center for Student Counseling flourish so greatly in its first year. I always get nervous in unexpected speaking situations so I didn’t say anything on stage (normalizing for anyone else who gets weird in those moments), but if I had thought about it, I would have said how impressed I was with everyone nominated, how grateful I am to work with such amazing faculty, staff, and student leaders, and how excited I am to see how we can continue to grow wellness services for everyone on campus!

Also congratulations to our related unit, the Disability Access Center who won the DEI Forward award, Carolyn Pang, graduate student in Counselor Education who won the Student Organization Member of the Year award, to Active Minds President Gwenna Lahmann who won the Building Block award, and to one of our Center’s biggest supporters, Dr. Brett Wilkinson, who received the Student’s Choice for Teaching Excellence award! It was wonderful to see so much celebration of those doing mental health and wellness work.

Thank you to the SGA, Student Life office, and everyone who put so much effort into recognizing the fantastic people doing amazing things on our campus!