Mental Health Education & Volunteering

This program is currently deactivated

Program Directors & Office Hours

Kevin Matlock: TR 9:30-11
Christian Guillen: MWF 9-10

Volunteer Weekly Meetings

MWF 10-10:50 HGH 203

Program Mission

Mental Health Education & Volunteering is a Y.E.S. program that is designed as an experiential 3-unit psychology course. Student volunteers learn about the mental health system through coursework and acquire first hand knowledge of the system and the individuals it serves through their one-on-one match with a mental health care recipient or consumer. Interactions with their match allow volunteers to dispel the negative connotation of this group as violent, antisocial and unapproachable. These adults have feelings like anyone else and are in need of an understanding and caring person who is willing to spend time with them, be a friend, and model what normal companionship would look like.

Service, Goals & Projects

Volunteers are each matched with a resident of Crestwood Manor, a mental health residential facility in Eureka. Students will have the option to visit weekly with their match either at Crestwood or away from the site if they have undergone the necessary screening.

Community Contacts

Dr. Mark Harwood is the HSU professor currently teaching the course listed as Psych 483 in the course catalogue. Stan Fleming is the administrator at Crestwood who is the primary contact For MHEV activities and companion connections.

Class volunteers
[Photo by Kyana Taillon]