EARS
EARS Creates New Mental Health Programs After Suspension
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Cornell EARS has restructured its framework to focus on peer mentors and empathy following a suspension of peer counseling services.
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EARS Returns, Providing Mentoring Instead of Counseling
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Cornell EARS is coming back with a new one-on-one mentoring service instead of peer counseling.
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GUEST ROOM | E is for Empathy: A Reintroduction to EARS
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Last week, the University announced that Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service would no longer offer peer counseling, as this kind of service is not insured by the University. EARS, however, will still continue as an organization, though now without the peer counseling service that we are best known for. Confusion, outrage, disappointment and dozens of questions like “Why?” and “How?” and “How do we fix it?” spread over Zoom calls, Facebook posts and even Reddit threads after the news broke. These responses are understandable. After all, how do you reconcile a peer counseling organization with no peer counseling?