Centre Helps Club
The PSU Centre Helps Club serves as a bridge between service opportunities for the community offered through Centre Helps and the Penn State campus community. We aim to create a positive on-campus culture, allowing students to help their peers in need of support.
Below is a list services the club provides:
- Learning about Mental Health resources
- Creating a Safe Environment for Penn State Students
- Access Crisis Intervention Trainings
- Connecting Students with Local Resources Outside of the Penn State Campus
- Advocating for Suicide Awareness
Meet Our Officers:
President: Bella Harclerode
Bella is currently a Penn State Student majoring in Biobehavioral Health with minors in Psychology and Rehabilitation and Human Services. She is our Centre Helps Club treasurer, and is also a volunteer counselor on our hotline. Bella is really happy to be bringing our agency's values onto the Penn State Campus. In her free time she loves to explore Centre County with friends or to find new music to build her playlists.
Vice President: Moe Kawasaki
Moe is a senior at Penn State studying child maltreatment and psychology. She has been a volunteer at Centre Helps for about two years. She not only works as a hotline volunteer, but also as an On-The-Job trainer for our new hotline volunteers and has worked as a Basic Needs Case Manager assistant at Centre Helps! Moe loves working at Centre Helps and hopes to bring Centre Helps’ mission regarding mental health and empathetic support to Penn State.
Secretary: Cameron Koch
Cameron is a first-year student at Penn State studying Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience. He is applying to start volunteering at Centre Helps next semester, and his overall career goal is to become a Psychiatrist. In Cameron's free time, he enjoys hiking, fly-fishing, working out, reading literature, and cooking.
