Collegiate Connect Inc.
Supporting Education and Student Wellness
Collegiate Connect is a peer-support organization dedicated to providing college student support by helping students feel heard, supported, and less alone. Our trained volunteers offer compassionate, nonjudgmental listening through peer listening services in a safe and welcoming environment.
We want to clarify that we are not a therapy or crisis service. Instead, our focus is on offering emotional support, fostering connection, and providing referrals to additional mental wellness resources when needed.
Our mission is to reduce isolation, encourage connection, and assist students in navigating difficult moments through peer support and compassionate listening.
What is Peer Support?
What Peer Support IS
Our Peer Listeners are trained to actively listen, validate emotions, provide encouragement, and connect students with mental wellness resources when appropriate. Common topics college students like to discuss with our peer listening services include stress and burnout, academic pressure, loneliness, text anxiety, relationship difficulties, homesickness, life transitions, and more!
What Peer Support IS NOT
Collegiate Connect does NOT provide therapy, psychiatric services, crisis counseling, emergency intervention, or medical treatment. Students seeking higher levels of support will be referred to professional mental wellness resources, and our Peer Listening services require that any safety concerns be reported to the appropriate authorities.