What the training covers
A nationally recognized curriculum teaches how to recognize signs of a developing mental health or substance-use crisis and how to connect someone to help — not how to provide therapy, but how to not freeze up and say the wrong thing.
Who takes it
Open to any student, faculty or staff member; resident assistants, orientation leaders and academic advisors complete it as a standing job requirement rather than an optional extra.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
Length: One 8-hour session, or two 4-hour sessions. Cost: Free. Offered: Monthly during the academic year. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.