Counseling and Mental Health Support
All counseling services are free to current BHC students. To schedule a confidential appointment, please call, email or stop by our office on either campus.
Let’s Talk
During your first appointment, a professional counselor will:
- Help clarify your concerns
- Explore ongoing counseling needs
- Determine if additional services would be beneficial
We will help you whether your concerns are personal, educational or social. We assist you in exploring alternatives, weighing consequences and learning new skills to help you cope with and resolve the problems you are facing. Everything you discuss during your counseling session will be completely confidential.
After Hours Emergencies
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Physical Safety Emergencies
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TimelyCare Telehealth Services
As a BHC student, you have FREE access to TimelyCare telehealth services. Providers are available to offer medical and mental health support via phone or secure video.
Services offered
- Medical (24/7): On-demand or scheduled access to a medical provider who can treat a wide range of common illnesses like cold and flu, sinus infection, allergies, and more
- TalkNow (24/7): On-demand access to a mental health professional to talk about anything at anytime
- Scheduled Counseling: Scheduled appointments to meet with a licensed counselor (limit 6 per year)
- Psychiatry: Scheduled appointments available through a campus counseling referral
- Free classes: Yoga, meditation, and other wellness oriented sessions
Visits can happen from any web-enabled device – smartphone, laptop, or desktop. TimelyCare is available from anywhere in the United States.
To get started, visit BHC’s TimelyCare website or download the app and register an account with your student BHC email address.
See More Mental Health Resources
The services available through TimelyCare are designed to expand and enhance our traditional services but might be particularly useful for students who are seeking a counselor from a particular demographic background or for those who are unable to meet for appointments during our traditional office hours.
Counseling Events
Be sure to keep an eye out for these special events hosted by BHC Counseling:
- Social Services Fair at each campus in the fall
- Awareness month activities (lead by Peer Mentors)
- Monthly stress relief events:
- Pet therapy is provided by the Quad Cities Canine Assistance Network (QC CAN)
- Yoga classes: take a break from studying and stretch with us in a FREE yoga class
- Art therapy: energize your brain! Drop in and create an art project – no experience or talent needed.
- Gray Matters BHC gatherings: all enrolled BHC students are welcome to be a part of the club.
Peer Mentoring Program
Peer mentors raise awareness, provide education and serve as a resource to fellow BHC students on a wide variety of mental health issues. They will provide support, challenge you, commiserate with you, and be your cheerleader. Most importantly, they will listen!
To contact a peer mentor, email counseling@bhc.edu.
Policies & Forms
Confidentiality
Your counseling information is confidential. No information about who is receiving counseling or the nature of their visits is released without the written permission of the person. Exceptions to this include subpoena, in cases of current child abuse, or if there is an expressed intent to harm one’s self or another. Black Hawk College counselors adhere to the ethical standards and practices of the American Counseling Association, Alexandria, VA.
Student Optional Disclosure
In accordance with the Student Optional Disclosure of Private Mental Health Act (IGP 59.1), Black Hawk College is providing students the opportunity to authorize, in writing, the disclosure of certain private mental health information to a designated person of their choosing.
The Student Optional Disclosure of Private Mental Health Information Act in the state of Illinois provides you with the opportunity to designate an adult whom you would like us to contact in the event that you experience a mental health emergency that puts you or others at risk for serious injury or death. You are not required to designate a contact. If you would like to designate an Emergency Mental Health Contact, please fill out the online form.
Fill Out the Emergency Contact Release Form
This Act states that an institution of higher learning may disclose mental health information if a qualified examiner makes a determination that the student poses a clear danger to himself, herself or others to protect the student or other person against a clear, imminent risk of serious physical or mental injury or disease or death being inflicted upon the person or by the student on himself, herself or another. The qualified examiner shall, as soon as practicable, but in no more than 24 hours after making the determination under this section, attempt to contact the designated person and notify the designated person that the qualified examiner has made a determination that the student poses a clear, imminent danger to himself, herself or others.
If you desire to designate a person who would receive certain private mental health information in such a situation, complete the form and indicate if you authorize, or decline to authorize, the disclosure of the information.
Drug-Free Schools & Communities Act
In accordance with BHC’s Student Code of Conduct, students, including those of the legal drinking age, are not permitted to use, possess, manufacture, sell, deliver, or distribute alcohol or illegal drugs on College property, property used by Black Hawk College, as part of any College sponsored event, or while conducting or participating in Black Hawk College business and/or events.
Quad-Cities Campus
Building 1, Room 377 (above the Advising Center)
309-796-5199
counseling@bhc.edu
East Campus
Building A, Advising Center
309-796-5199
counseling@bhc.edu
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