Category: Services for Students
October 26th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Understanding Anxiety
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
12:30 pm in the PUB, room 9201
Anxiety isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, a little anxiety can motivate you and help you stay focused under pressure, such as when taking an exam or driving your car on a dark and stormy night. However, when anxiety takes over and interferes with daily activities, there may be cause for concern. The good news – recovery is possible and there are many things you can do to get your anxiety in check and regain control of your life.
Join Counseling Services at our interactive workshop and learn more about how to recognize and manage the signs and symptoms of anxiety for yourself or someone you care about.
Workshop is open to all and no RSVP needed. Hope you can make it!
Questions about the workshop? Contact Sheryl Copeland at scopeland@shoreline.edu or 206.533.6712.
Want to know more about anxiety? Visit HelpGuide.org: http://www.helpguide.org/home-pages/anxiety.htm
Need someone to talk to? Stop by Counseling Services in FOSS 5229 or call us at 206.546.4559 to schedule an appointment with a professional counselor.
Need 24/7 Crisis Support?
King County Crisis Line | 1-866-427-4747 | TTY: 206-461-3219
Snohomish County Crisis Line | 1-800-584-3578 | Online Chat: carecrisischat.org
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October 21st, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
As part of our Job and Career Success Series, please join us for a workshop titled “Choosing a Major or Career Path” on Tues., Oct. 27 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the PUB Quiet Dining Room.
Explore interests, strengths, and values and learn how they connect to deciding a major and/or career pathway that is right for you. Shoreline Community College Career Counselors will provide strategies for career exploration and share information about resources to help select a pathway that fits YOU!
Posted in Announcements, Free, Services for Students, Workshops Tagged with: advising and counseling, career planning
October 20th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Students: We would like to share information about how Counseling Services can help you and our campus community.
Shoreline Community College Counseling Services
Counseling Services provides free, confidential and professional counseling services, resources, and referral to support the academic and personal success, health, and well-being of our students and campus community. Bottom line…we are here to help!
More about what Counseling Services offers students and our campus community…
Personal Counseling – Are you dealing with personal concerns that may impact your success? Counselors are trained to be supportive, relate to others and are sensitive to each student’s background and life experience. Counseling can offer a student an ear to listen without judgement, help students learn how to address concerns and how to cope, manage and thrive. Call x4559 to speak with a counselor!
Career Counseling – Are you undecided about your major or questioning if you chose the “right major?” We help students to develop a better understanding of themselves, learn about career and academic research tools, and develop a method for informed decision making.
Academic / Educational Success Counseling – Having difficulty in your classes or navigating the college system? Our counselors can help students develop skills and strategies for success. Call x4559 to speak with a counselor!
Resources and Referral – Need help with day-to-day or long-term needs? Students are welcome to visit our office or our website for information on a variety of topics or ask our staff for assistance to connect with resources to meet their needs.
Learn more at Counseling Services!
FOSS – Room 5229 | 206.546.4559
http://www.shoreline.edu/counseling-services/
Posted in Announcements, Free, Services for Students Tagged with: advising and counseling
October 19th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Join Counseling Services for an interactive workshop: Understanding Depression on Wed., Oct. 21 at 12:30 p.m. in the PUB 9202.
Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad. But these feelings are usually short-lived and pass within a couple of days. When you have depression, it interferes with daily life and causes pain for both you and those who care about you.
Join Counseling Services at our interactive workshop and learn more about how to recognize the signs and symptoms of depression for yourself or someone you care about.
Questions about the workshop? Contact Sheryl Copeland at scopeland@shoreline.edu or 206.533.6712.
Want to know more about depression? Visit HelpGuide.org.
Need someone to talk to? Stop by Counseling Services in FOSS 5229 or call us at 206.546.4559 to schedule an appointment with a professional counselor.
Need 24/7 Crisis Support?
King County Crisis Line | 1-866-427-4747 | TTY: 206-461-3219
Snohomish County Crisis Line | 1-800-584-3578 | Online Chat: carecrisischat.org
Posted in Announcements, Events, Free, Services for Students, Workshops Tagged with: counseling services, depression
October 18th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Want expert help filling out your FAFSA? Come to our free workshop Mon., Oct. 19 from 2:30-4 p.m. in the Workforce Education Computer Lab in FOSS 5101. Bring your tax information or estimates, including parents’ tax information if applicable.
Members of Shoreline’s Enrollment & Financial Aid Services office will be on hand to help you get started and complete the free application for federal student aid (FAFSA).
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October 12th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
At Shoreline Community College we not only care about why you are here but where you are headed. We strive to support students through their career development and readiness for the future. Staff and faculty work to create opportunities for exploration, connections between employers and students, provide opportunities for skill building, and resources for networking and the job/internship search process.
Join us for our Fall Quarter Job and Career Workshop Series! This workshop series focuses on resources for career exploration, tips for getting started with the job search and application process, networking and interviewing, and career conversations. All are welcome and snacks will be provided! Our first workshop in the job and career series is Tues., Oct. 13 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the PUB Quiet Dining Room.
Workshop title and details: Resume 101-Showcasing Your Talents
Oct. 13 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the PUB Quiet Dining Room
Come to this workshop for valuable resume tips, whether you’re looking for a part-time student job or getting ready to start a new career. You will also learn about a program that can provide ongoing support in your job search. The workshop will be presented by Hopelink, a local partner of SCC’s Workforce Education Division.
*Snacks will be provided, bring your lunch!
Posted in Announcements, Services for Students, Workshops Tagged with: career planning, resume writing
October 7th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
This Fri., Oct. 8 come meet the staff of the Multicultural Center from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the PUB room 9102 and learn more about:
-New internships in the Multicultural Center;
-Attending the Students of Color and the Queer I Am Conferences:
-The Student Diversity Coalition (SDC);
-Get involved with our annual Multicultural Week and MLK Jr. Celebrations and Social Justice Week!
-Got Workstudy? Talk with us!
Posted in Announcements, Events, Jobs on Campus, Services for Students Tagged with: internship, multicultural center
October 7th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
In honor of Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Office of Special Services (OSS) is working to raise awareness of disabilities by offering daily facts and tips about people with disabilities and living with disability. Please take a minute to read and broaden your understanding.
Today’s topic is: October 8, 2015 is World Sight Day. This year’s call to action:
World Sight Day is an important advocacy and communications opportunity for the eye health community. It is a great time to engage with a wider audience – a patient’s family, those who seldom get an eye exam, diabetics – and showcase why eye health needs everybody’s attention.
Eye care for all: This year, The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) urges you to focus on everybody who needs eye care services – everybody. Think of all the groups of people who need eye care – especially the most vulnerable or the ones most in need. What can we do to bring eye care to them all? How can we ensure that access to eye care is not limited by gender or geographic location, or even financial status? Do remember, ‘Eye Health’ also includes rehabilitation and assistive services for those with irreversible vision loss.
This World Sight Day, let’s do something that will draw attention to the great unmet need in eye care services.
On World Sight Day, IAPB members work together to:
1. Raise public awareness of blindness & vision impairment as major international public health issues
2. Influence Governments/Ministers of Health to participate in and designate funds for national blindness prevention programs
3. Educate target audiences about blindness prevention, about VISION 2020 and to generate support for VISION 2020 program activities
International Key Messages:
1. Approximately 285 million people worldwide live with low vision and blindness
2. Of these, 39 million people are blind and 246 million have moderate or severe visual impairment
3. 90% of blind people live in low-income countries
4. Yet 80% of visual impairment is avoidable – i.e. readily treatable and/or preventable
5. Restorations of sight, and blindness prevention strategies are among the most cost-effective interventions in health care
6. The number of people blind from infectious causes has greatly reduced in the past 20 years
7. An estimated 19 million children are visually impaired
8. About 65 % of all people who are visually impaired are aged 50 and older, while this age group comprises only 20% of the world’s population
9. Increasing elderly populations in many countries mean that more people will be at risk of age-related visual impairment.
The above information was taken from the website of the IAPB. For more information about World Sight Day, click here.
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October 6th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
October 7, 2015 is World Cerebral Palsy Day. In honor of this day, the students in Shoreline’s Disability Awareness Society will be hosting a table in the PUB from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. to help educate the campus community on cerebral palsy…a disability that affects 17 million people world-wide.
Although cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in childhood, it is widely misunderstood. Through World CP Day, we have the opportunity to raise awareness of CP in our communities and assist others to look beyond the disability.
Public awareness is an issue because CP is a complex, lifelong disability. It primarily affects movement, but people with CP may also have visual, learning, hearing, speech, epilepsy and intellectual impairments. It can be mild, such as a weakness in one hand, to severe cases in which people have little control over movements or speech and may need 24-hour assistance.
People living with CP can experience a range of responses from others in their communities. On one end of the spectrum, they can face deep-seated but misguided sympathy, or even pity. Though intentions are good, they infantilize the person with CP. They can be smothered with (too much) love, and spoken to in a simple, childlike way. Others can subconsciously over-protect a person with CP, and thus prevent them from having essential life experiences.
On the other end of the spectrum, CP is viewed through deep-seated cultural beliefs. It may be seen as validation of superstitions about the mother, or wrath upon a family. Some even believe that CP is contagious or that a child with CP brings shame to a family. Mothers may be abandoned with their child, or a person with CP may live their life in an institution.
And in the middle are thousands of fine people who still find it difficult to make eye contact or know how to communicate with someone who has CP. It is not that they feel any ill will, it is just best—maybe even polite—to not engage.
There is nothing to be gained in blaming people for their ignorance about CP. Instead, we will work to put an end to it. We have the ability and the moral obligation to ensure everyone knows the real truth, and acts accordingly.
The above information and more can be found on the World CP Day’s site. For an infographic with even more information about cerebral palsy, click here.
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October 5th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
In honor of Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Office of Special Services (OSS) is working to raise awareness of disabilities by offering daily facts and tips about people with disabilities and living with disability. Please take a minute to read and broaden your understanding.
Today’s topic is: Facts About Deafness
Here is some general information to know about the Deaf:
- There are approximately 22-28 million Deaf and Hard of Hearing people in the United States.
- Deaf people, for the most part, prefer to be called “deaf.”
- Hard of Hearing individuals have significant hearing loss, but they still have enough residual hearing to be able, with or without amplification, to understand a large majority of human speech.
- Even the most experienced and skilled lip readers can only understand about 30% of English speech. Most words are ambiguous and unidentifiable on the lips. Also, many different sounds look the same on the lips.
- Sign language is not universal. American Sign Language is the language used by most Deaf individuals living in the United States and a large part of Canada. There are almost as many sign languages as there are spoken languages in the world.
- 90% of Deaf children are born to Hearing parents.
- The Deaf work in fields such as architecture, clergy, corporations, education, entertainment, financial institutions, government, law and law enforcement, medicine, science, and technology.
- Not all Deaf individuals use sign language as their primary mode of communication. If a deaf person is educated in an oral environment they live their lives and function in the “hearing world” without the use of sign language. Late deafened adults often choose to continue communicating oral-aurally and lip/speech read, using what residual hearing they have left.
The above information and more can be found at Beyond the Words, Inc.
The OSS on campus serves students with disabilities and also promotes disability awareness through the provision of disability related information. Please contact OSS directly if you have questions (oss@shoreline.edu, (206) 546-4545, FOSS building, 5226).
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