It’s important to take care of yourself; this year has taken its toll on our well-being. Look after yourself and look for positive ways to deal with stress. Below are some resources to help you maintain a healthy balance.

• Carleton’s wellness website
• Make connections (events, clubs, esports)
• CU Health & Counselling Services
• Counselling Supports for Indigenous Students
• Other 24/7 Counselling Support
• CU Therapy Dogs on Instagram

Carleton’s Wellness website has tools and resources to help you understand, manage and improve your mental health and well-being while at university. This includes:

• Good advice for helping a friend in need.
• The schedule for Equity and Inclusive Communities week.
• And great series of workshops (see these coming up):

• • Black Students’ Wellness Matters series
  • Navigating Your Social Transition to Canada (International Students)
  • Life Skills 101

Find out more →

This year it’s more of a challenge to meet people and be social; but there are opportunities to connect:

• Campus Activity Board: new events include EPIC Bingo, Wellness Yoga & Journaling, and Global Dance Party: Pow Wow Workout. Check out the full calendar.
• CUSA clubs and societies: Got interests? There’s probably club to go with that; check out the list.
• Esports: Carleton launched a new Ontario post-secondary esports league today. Check out their website for details.
  • Check out the athletics website to register for intramural esports and more.

Read about the new esports league →

If stress is affecting your health or wellbeing, please don’t hesitate to seek support: Carleton’s free confidential counselling services. Health and Counselling offers support with managing stress, substance abuse, as well as running a virtual medical clinic where you can access services online.

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Dedicated resources for Indigenous students are available on campus and in the community. Don’t hesitate to take care of your own well-being.

• Carleton’s Health and Counselling services has an Indigenous counsellor: Indigenous students can book directly with Staci Loiselle, M.Ed., C.C.C., R.P., at staci.loiselle@carleton.ca.
• First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Hotline – 24/7 services available in Cree, Ojibway, Inuktitut, English, and French – 1-855-242-3310.
• Akwesasne 24/7 Mental Health Helpline:1-866-531-2600.

Other wellness resources that are available 24/7 include:

• Empower me us an online, community based, counselling service available 24/7 for all Carleton students.
  • Available in many languages
  • For a range of issues – counselling to life coaching, financial planning or nutritional counselling, etc.
  • Call the 24/7 helpline at 1 844 741-6389 (toll-free) from anywhere in North America to be directly connected to a trained counsellor.
  • Note: even though the service is described on the Student Health plan website, this service is open to all students (whether opted-in to the health plan or not).
• Good2Talk: counselling and support service for Ontario students, also available 24/7 at 1-866-925-5454.
• CrisisLine: For those living in Ottawa and surrounding regions. Ottawa 613-722-6914, outside Ottawa 1-866-996-0991.

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Finally, until we’re able to return to campus and meet these good pups in person, follow Carleton’s awesome therapy dogs on Instagram @cutherapydog.