UNIVERSITY OF OREGON UO Crisis Center

Conference 2005 Back to Crisis center home page Crisis Line Services Crisis Intervention Course Training / Job opportunities Suicide Myths Back to the UO Counseling Center Annual Crisis Prevention Conference Each year during the Winter quarter, the University of Oregon Crisis hosts a crisis prevention conference for students and community members who wish to learn new information, ideas, and skills for increasing their effectiveness in their own lives and/or increasing their effectiveness as helping professionals. The conference is offered as a one credit though the Counseling Psychology Department, but is open to non-students as well. The conference typically offers a keynote address followed by three or four sessions, each offering a selection of five to six campus and/or community to choice from. Past topics have included art therapy, working with the chronically mentally ill, PTSD, cross cultural communications, eating disorders, careers in counseling/mental health, getting into graduate school, suicide intervention, substance abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse survivors, creative imaginary, coming out issues, and homophobia.  Details will be updated as they become available. For more information, please contact the University of Oregon Crisis Center business line at 346-4487.