University Counseling Center Consultation: Developing a Faculty Outreach Program

A faculty outreach program created by a university counseling center had the goals of strengthening the working relationship between staff of the center and academic faculty, informing faculty of the center's services and their relationship to the academic mission, providing coordination of academic departments' requests for outreach and consultation services, and increasing center staff involvement in outreach services to faculty. In its first year, this program reached 53 departments and programs and 370 faculty and staff. The program design, results, and future directions are discussed.