An actor and activist spent the day with Penn State Abington students during National Suicide Prevention Awareness Week. He was joined by the campus psychologist to reduce the shame of talking about mental health issues.
Penn State Abington faculty, staff, and students are volunteering to learn techniques to reduce relationship and sexual violence, known as Stand for State.
Students who are new to Penn State and all students living in University housing are reminded that they must submit their immunization records using myUHS through a new three-step process. As part of this process, students who do not submit their immunization records prior to Sept. 15 will be unable to register for spring 2017 classes.
Students from Penn State Abington and other colleges in the region sent out a powerful message of support during 2016 Suicide Prevention Night at the Ballparks. Fans crowding Citizens Bank Park saw the video prior to the Philadelphia Phillies/Atlanta Braves game.
It's your right to be safe from sexual and relationship violence, and the Penn State Abington community takes responsibility to protect each other. Stand for State training teaches tactics to effectively intervene and diffuse risky situations.
Penn State, along with other universities that have a presence in the Philadelphia region, has learned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that there have been vague threats on social media of violence at "a Philadelphia area University." The FBI indicated that similarly vague threats have been made on social media across the country in the last several days.
Kristin Mitchell sent this text to her boyfriend: "You are being ridiculous... why can't I do something with my friends?" Hours later, he murdered her. As shocking as this already is, a twist to this story elicited gasps from the Penn State Abington students in the audience: Kristin's boyfriend had never been physically violent until the night he stabbed her to death in 2005.
With a framed picture of the smiling young woman perched nearby, Diane Kinney of Aldersgate Youth Services explained that Kristin didn't know a classic red flag for dating violence is controlling behavior. Last week, Kinney facilitated a program called "Healthy Relationships and Dating Violence," part of the wellness series offered free to Abington students.
