Consultation / Outreach

The Counseling Services Consultation/Outreach Program has three primary goals:

The first is to enhance the overall functioning and well being of the students, staff and faculty of UCSB. We accomplish this through a systems approach, which emphasizes gearing interventions towards groups of people in the immediate environment rather than an individual person as the client. Interventions may involve training, organizational development activities, and responding to community trauma/crisis events such as debriefings following natural or other disasters.

The second goal is to maintain collaborative relationships with Student Affairs organizations and campus departments as an effective use of staff resources and as a way to strengthen the philosophy of community within the university. Collaboration may occur through program development, training, and membership in campus committees or task forces.

The third goal is to ensure the delivery of quality services to the campus community. This includes maintaining a multi-faceted consultation and outreach team of individuals who are aware of issues unique to underrepresented populations as well as to career issues in addition to their skills as psychologists. This is accomplished through training, continuing education, and evaluative assessments given to program participants along with their general feedback.