Graduate school is an exciting challenge but sometimes it can all get a little overwhelming. To support our community's emotional and physical well-being, Sonoran University has contracted with The Virtual Care Group to provide virtual counseling and basic medical health services to all our current students. Features include:

• 100% confidential appointments
• Available 24/7 on an unlimited basis.
• Crisis Management Coaches for urgent situations.
• Life Coaching Services for longer term goals like weight loss or stress reduction.
• Ability to select a broad range of individualized features such as characteristics and specialties of your therapist, even language of counselors.
• Prompt turnaround for appointments.
• Get official documentation for absences.
• Prescriptions, if needed, sent directly to your Pharmacy.

Sign up today for your account, so the myriad of options available will be ready whenever you need it. (Note: For account set up, Sonoran's zip code is 85282.)

If you have any additional questions about the counseling and health services program, please contact the Dean of Students at DOS@scnm.edu.

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For more tips, try these eLearning articles.

Mental Health and Personal Safety

Hotlines:

• The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 for survivors of domestic violence. Their phone number is 1-800-799-7233. If you are unable to speak safely, you can create an account on thehotline.org or text LOVEIS to 22522.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has a disaster distress helpline that provides 24/7 crisis counseling at 1-800-985-5990. You can also receive crisis counseling by texting TalkWithUs to 66746, or for Spanish, text Hablanos to 66746.
• The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24/7 at 800-273-TALK (8255) for people in distress.

Online Support Groups for Mental Health:

• In the Rooms: Online Addiction Recovery Community
• Support Group Central virtual support groups on numerous mental health conditions for free or a low-cost. This website is also offered in many different languages, including Chinese and Spanish. 

Tools and Apps for Mental Health:

• 7cups app and online resource that lets you chat with a trained listener for emotional support and counseling. It also offers online therapy with a licensed mental health professional. Services are also offered in Spanish.
• Psych Central online mental health resources, quizzes, news, and an “Ask the Therapist” function.

Articles:

• Coronavirus: How to protect your mental health

Emergency Food and Shelter

Food Pantries in Arizona and Nationally:

• Free meals around you A map that displays free meal locations in your area.
• United Food Bank United Food Bank provides food boxes to those in need
• FoodPantries.Org/arizona Arizona Food pantries.
• FoodPantries.Org Enter your state for locations near you.

Pet Food Resources:

• Animals in Disaster Animal pantry Arizona
• National Animals in Disaster National Resource
• Healthy Human Foods for Dogs
• Healthy Human Food for Cats

Mobile Produce Market:

• Market on the Move Arizona
• Produce on Wheels Without-Waste Arizona
• National Farmers Market Directory

Housing and Shelter Resources:

• Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS): CASS serves the entire Phoenix metropolitan area and provides shelter for both adult and families 24/7, 365 days a year.
• One‐N‐Ten (LGBTQ): shelter, housing, connection to support services: 602‐279‐0894
• American Red Cross: Find an emergency open shelter near you.
• Homeless Shelter Directory: Find homeless shelters and service organizations near you.
• Homeless Assistance

There are also other valley-wide organizations.

Financial and Material Support

• 2-1-1 Arizona: provides resources for eviction prevention assistance, rent payment assistance, emergency shelters, and other housing needs.
• Save Our Home AZ (SOHAZ) Program Save Our Home AZ (SOHAZ) offers principal reduction assistance, monthly mortgage subsidy assistance for underemployed and unemployed Arizonans, as well as second lien elimination assistance to qualified Arizona homeowners.
• HUD Resources by State 
• Eviction Prevention
• Material Assistance for Families

For a more extensive List of Resources.

Veterans and Military Services

• AZ 211 - Veterans & Military Services AZ 211 offers veterans and military personnel resources for locating services, programs, and hotlines.
• Veterans First, Ltd. Helps vulnerable veterans in the metro Phoenix area who are in need of getting the essentials delivered to them. Financial donations from the public are greatly appreciated
• Be Connected A resource for veterans, service members, family members, providers, and helpers to seek information, support, and resources
• Veterans National Homeless Call Center: 1‐877‐424‐3838

Parent and Guardians

Teaching and Learning

• Free K-12 remote learning
• ASU Prep: Free High School Courses
• Starfall: Educational activities for K-3rd grades.

Mental Health Children

• Yoga Mindfulness and Relations Designed for Kids 3+

Entertainment

Things to do

• DoYogaWithMe: Clear your mind and relieve some stress with hundreds of streaming instructional yoga videos for all levels.
• Art at Home
• Virtual Hiking Experience
• At Home Workouts
• Online Coloring For Adults

Articles

• Entertainment Picks to Help Pass the Time: We have the cure for your social distancing boredom. Check out this huge list of movie, TV, book, music, and podcast recommendations from CX users!
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Get up and going with other ideas.