Bookstore Team Changes

We have a new team of contacts for the ARC Bookstore. Welcome Jeremy and Rachel!

Campus Store Manager:

Jeremy Levenberg

Email: j.levenberg@follett.com 

Phone: (916) 484-8111

Course Materials:

Rachel Glasgow

Email: r.glasgow@follett.com

Mental Health Awareness Month

Mental health is an incredibly important part of overall health. We would like to encourage all of our students, faculty, and staff to practice self-care and mental wellness in honor of the national observance of May as Mental Health Awareness Month. 

If you or someone you know is in crisis, you can access immediate support by calling 911 or through the:

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Call 988
• Crisis Text Line: Text Courage to 74174
• County Crisis Hotline: (916) 732-3637
• Suicide Crisis Line: (916) 368-3111

College Resources

Everyone deserves care and support, at American River College we have many different resources available including:

• TimelyCare, which is available 24/7/365 to help care for your medical and mental health needs 
• The Los Rios Center for Mental Health and Wellness 

There’s an App for That

Mental health apps are designed to help users improve their emotional well-being, become more mindful, and address common mental health issues. Although the following tools can all help improve your mental health and reduce stress and anxiety, please note that none of them are intended to be used as an alternative to a therapist or other mental health professionals.

Consider downloading the following (note: free versions are available but some may require additional purchases for premium content):

• Happify: Happify uses games to boost your mood. The activities were developed with positive psychology techniques and CBT interventions.
• Insight Timer: Insight Timer offers guided meditations, music tracks and discussion groups/community.
• Mindshift: Was created to help develop skills to manage anxiety. Features include short meditations, thought journals, coping cards, and activities to face fears, change beliefs, and develop healthy habits.
• Worry Watch: Worry Watch offers guided anxiety journaling and coping techniques. The app also offers a mood tracker and positive reinforcements.
• I am Sober: I Am Sober is useful for quitting alcohol. It encourages you to identify triggers, recognize patterns, and develop healthy habits to meet your goals and achieve sobriety. It offers a withdrawal timeline so you can learn what to expect.
• iBreathe: Introduces breathing exercises to help reduce stress.

May 9 is National Fentanyl Awareness Day

Fentanyl is involved in more deaths of Americans under 50 than any cause of death, including heart disease, cancer, homicide, suicide and other accidents. Illicit fentanyl is driving the recent increase in US drug overdose deaths. It is odorless, tasteless, extremely potent, and used to make fake pills disguised as Oxycontin, Percocet and Xanax. You can’t tell which pills contain a lethal amount of fentanyl.

Learn more at fentanylawarenessday.org and spread the word to save a life.

Call Out for Interviews with LGBTQ2IAA+ Community College Students!

Professor Sara Smith at American River College is seeking queer and trans community college students to interview for her oral history project. She is conducting the interviews in the spring, summer and fall of 2023. They are being recorded at Sacramento City College, though there is some flexibility about location, depending on student needs. If interested in being interviewed or if you have questions, email her at sara.smith@arc.losrios.edu. 

The interviews are part of a larger project intended to help California’s community colleges better attend to the needs of queer and trans students, particularly students from more marginalized backgrounds – students of color, poor and working-class students, trans and non-binary students, and disabled queer and trans students.

Model United Nations Club Wins Awards

ARC’s Model United Nations (MUN) club attended the 72nd session of the Model United Nations of the Far West Conference, the 2nd oldest MUN Conference in the US, where they competed against 4-year Universities and other Community Colleges. 

This year, 13 students were on the country teams of Lithuania and New Zealand where they debated specific issues of United Nations committees and tried to get resolutions passed on important issues. The theme this year was A Foree For Good: Global Health and Technology for a Sustainable Future.  

The New Zealand delegation won an Award and Practice of Diplomacy and the delegates in the 3rd Committee, Spencer Owen (Luthiana) and Juliana Elliot-Beckett (New Zeland), won Outstanding Resolution for their work in Committee. 

Congratulations Beavers!

PTK All-California Team 

The League released the 2023 PTK All-California Team Selections and Rankings and three ARC students were named to the All-California Team.

Congratulations to our ARC team members:

• Raime Gannon (Second Team) 
• Jennifer Duffy (Third Team) 
• Angela Ungureanu (Third Team)

Integration Bee Top 5!

The ARC Mathematics Department hosted the 9th annual Integration Bee competition on April 28. Join us in congratulating the 2023 Top 5 finishers!

• 1st: Swechha Shrestha
• 2nd: Gregor Herda
• 3rd: Sam van der Veen
• Tied 4th/5th: Luke Auyeng and Esther Richardson

Survey Winners!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent web-based survey related to the future of on-campus dining. We are thrilled to announce that 7,406 students, faculty, and staff engaged in the survey, providing invaluable information about our community’s diversity of needs and preferences that we are relying upon to plan and implement new and improved on-campus food service at each of our member institutions.

Congratulations to the seven lucky campus community members who completed the survey and were selected as winners of the participation incentive prizes. The winners have all been selected and notified. 

We greatly appreciate your participation in this important initiative for the entire Los Rios Community College District. Thank you!

Bite of Reality Workshop

Hoping to improve your money management and financial literacy? Join us for a Virtual Bite of Reality Workshop that offers a hands-on money management simulation at Noon on Thursday, May 11. A Zoom link will be emailed to all participants who RSVP the day prior to the event.

23-4 Firefighter Academy Application Period Now Open!

Interested in pursuing a career in firefighting? The ARC Basic Firefighter Academy starts Monday, August 7, 2023 and ends Friday, December 15, 2023, and provides high-quality training to prepare you to begin or further your fire career!