Description of Services
Eastern Gateway Community College, in collaboration with COMPASS Family and Community Services, provides enrolled students, staff, and faculty with supportive services meant to enhance mental health, safety, and wellness, both on campus and online.
Monday – Thursday, 9am – 2pm, a Community Resource Specialist is available on campus to connect students to COMPASS-based services, community-based social services, and services offered by Eastern Gateway Community College. Also available is a Full-Time Community Resource Navigator who can provide brief interventions with individuals feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and/or struggling with mental illness, trauma, and/or victimization. COMPASS staff will identify, develop, and utilize positive coping strategies in cooperation with the individual, while also identifying supportive resources that may be helpful. In addition, staff are trained to help individuals navigate services available to them, as well as their rights, if they have experienced interpersonal violence, abuse, or sexual assault. Staff can locate community resources in their area, including linkage to providers of mental health treatment, shelter, and advocacy.
If you would like to utilize this confidential and free service, please either visit the Community Resource Specialist on campus OR contact COMPASS staff at COMPASSservices@egcc.edu . In Youngstown the Community Resource Specialist is located in the Main Concourse, Monday – Thursday, 9am – 2pm. Steubenville services remain online at this time with in-person services to be introduced in December 2022.
Appointments are available in-person or virtually, depending on proximity to each campus.
Also beginning in December 2022, COMPASS staff will facilitate wellness and awareness discussion groups virtually throughout the academic year. Please refer to the calendar of activities for offerings.
If you are experiencing an emergency, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
Warning Signs and Potential Symptoms of Mental Health Problems:
- Feeling excessively sad or down
- Confused thinking or trouble concentrating
- Excessive worry, fear, or guilt
- Mood changes (dramatic shift of emotions, i.e. extreme mood swings)
- Withdrawal from social activities and loss of interest in activities
- Trouble focusing on daily tasks such as schoolwork
- Feeling disconnected from reality or oneself
- Abusing drugs and/or alcohol
- Drastic change in behavior, personality, or sleeping habits
- Thoughts of suicide, wanting to die, or harming oneself
- Intrusive or recurrent memories or thoughts about a traumatic event
Helpful links:
www.COMPASSFamily.org/Chat Webchat support regarding interpersonal violence
https://988lifeline.org/ Suicide and Crisis Life Line
https://www.helpnetworkneo.org/ Help Network of Northeast Ohio
www.RapeCrisisAnswers.org COMPASS Rape Crisis and Counseling Center
www.SojournerHouse.com COMPASS Sojourner House Domestic Violence Program
Text HOME to 741 741 Crisis Text Line
Text AYUDA to 741 741 to access Crisis Text Line in Spanish
From this page you can find help, information and resources on the following topics:
Our Staff
Jacquelyn “Jackie” Graham
As the Community Resource Specialist with COMPASS for EGCC, I am in the Main Concourse at the Youngstown campus Monday-Thursday from 9am-2pm. I am available on Fridays as well from 9-2 remotely. I am here to help connect in person & online students to COMPASS-based services, community-based social services & services offered by EGGC. Should students feel stressed, overwhelmed or struggling with anything, including mental illness, trauma and/or victimization, I will help assess the needs, connect them to resources, and/or connect them to the COMPASS Navigator for further intervention. If mental health counseling is needed, both myself and the Navigator can refer to services within COMPASS or the community. I am available to stop in and speak with classes if a professor should feel their students would benefit from learning more about our services. Students can also connect with us through our email at COMPASSServices@EGCC.edu. These services are free to the students and can be utilized on an as needed basis. We will also be facilitating wellness & awareness discussion groups virtually throughout the academic year. I have experience with this type of work from my previous job. I enjoy helping others find the answers they are looking for. I know life can be overwhelming at times and having someone there to help you along the way can make a situation feel much more manageable. I am very excited to be on board in this position and look forward to helping students in any way I can.
COMPASS Main Office 330-782-5664
Jennifer Gray, MS, CA
As the Social Services and Development Officer for COMPASS, I oversee the Community Resource Specialists at both the Youngstown and Steubenville campuses of EGCC and act as the Navigator for students, both in-person and online. Sometimes students need to talk through a current situation, assess their own needs with assistance, understand how community systems work, and/or get short-term support for a recent trauma or victimization. This is my role. I can do this in-person or online and am also available by emailing COMPASSServices@EGCC.edu. The partnership between COMPASS and EGCC is built on the belief that with support, students can be successful. Personally, I have been working within the field for 25+ years and know that everyone needs help, sometimes. And as a victim advocate for much of my career, I also know that people are resilient and strong and can overcome a lot with the proper tools, resources, and information.
COMPASS Main Office 330-782-5664
Jennifer Direct Dial 330-531-7494