Interactive screening program reaches out to students

The Weilers have worked to get an Interactive Screening program going. This allows the counseling center to e-mail students and offer an Internet based, on line method of outreach.

This generation of students appears to be more comfortable using the computer to initially make contact with a counselor. After a careful screening, experts can look for depression and suicide red flags.

Students and the counseling center e-mail each other and then often set up face to face sessions.

“You want to do the work one on one in person which is kind of against our nature to want to do this on line but as a field we have to go where the students are at. And we have to our goal is to support students and we have to do that in the medium they respond to.”

The Weiler family has been instrumental in sponsoring suicide prevention walks around North Dakota to raise money for education programs for local law enforcement and college students.

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