Embracing Diversity

The University Counseling and Psychological Services (UCPS) embraces diversity in our campus community. We strive toward providing culturally sensitive counseling and psychological services with regard to race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, and nationality. Our staff is extensively trained in multicultural issues and strives to meet the needs of multiple populations. Through direct services, outreach and consultation with offices on campus, we seek to empower all Lehigh students toward their desired academic and personal goals.

Lehigh UCPS recognizes the unique needs and issues of different groups on campus, including racial/ethnic minority students, international students, women, and LGBTQIA students. We work collaboratively with the Multicultural Affairs Office, Office of International Students and Scholars, Women’s Center, and the Department of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Ally (LGBTQIA) Services to empower students and enhance their experiences at Lehigh University. Here is a glimpse into helpful resources for cultural groups on campus.

Racial and Ethnic Minority Students

Multicultural Affairs Office

Service / Social / Recreational Groups

• African-Caribbean Cultural Club (sends email)

• Asian Cultural Society (sends email)

• Bhangra (sends email)

• Black Students Union (sends email)

• Chinese Cultural Club (sends email)

• Hawaiian Culture Appreciation Club

• Hindu Students Council (sends email)

• Hispanic Union of Business Students (sends email)

• Indian Students Association (sends email)

• National Society of Black Engineers (sends email)

• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (sends email)

International Students

Office of International Students and Scholars

Service / Social / Recreational Groups

• Anime Eki Animation (sends email)

• Association of International Students

• German Club (sends email)

• Hellenic Club (sends email)

• Italian Club (sends email)

• Korean Student Association (sends email)

• Mariachi Club

• Russian Club (sends email)

• South American & Latin Students Association (sends email)

• Spanish Club (sends email)

• Thai Students at Lehigh (sends email)

• World Affairs (sends email)

Women

Women’s Center

UCPS Group Counseling

• Graduate Women’s Group

• Undergraduate Women’s Group

• Eating & Body Image Group

Service/Social/Recreational Groups

• Echoes (sends email)

• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

• Women in Business (sends email)

• American Medical Women’s Association (sends email)

Counseling-Related Services

• Women’s Health

• Women’s Mental Health

• Body Image: Loving yourself Inside and Out

Books

• “Wasted: A memoir of anorexia and bulimia” by Marya Hornbacher

• “The Dance of Anger: A women’s guide to changing the patterns of intimate relationships” by Harriet Lerner

LGBTQIA

• Lehigh LGBTQIA Office

• Valuing A Gay Or Lesbian Self-identity

• Where Do You Go From Here?

Publications

• Valley Free Press - Gay & Lesbian Opinion Newspaper (sends email, or call 610-432-5449)

Service / Social / Recreational Groups

• Spectrum - Lehigh club for LGBT friendly students (sends email)

• Pride of the Greater Lehigh Valley

• GLOSS: Gay & Lesbian Organized Sports Society. Send GLOSS email.

• Lehigh Valley Gay Men's Chorus. Send the LVGMC email.

• GLORA: Gays & Lesbians of Reading and Allentown (sends email)

• Interweave at UUCLV - social support/spiritual focused group (sends email)

• Barnes & Noble G&L Book Club Whitehall store (meets monthly, pick up discussion selection in-store)

Counseling-Related Services

Advocates for Behavioral Health (610-434-7820)

Psychological Services

Collective of Individual Practitioners who are female, who have varying degrees of experience with gay & lesbian experience -Bethlehem (610-332-1705)

Pinebrook Services (Children & Family services)

402 North Fulton Street, Allentown; branch offices: Bethlehem, Bangor, and Bristol (website)

Turning Point of the Lehigh Valley

Adult & Child abuse counseling and advocacy, homelessness support, emergency shelter, support groups, Hispanic/Latino support, GLBT friendly and supportive services (610-437-3369) (website)

National Organizations

• Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) or call 213-931-9429

• Gay, Lesbian Straight Education Network or send the GLSEN email.

• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) or call 202-332-6483

• Human Rights Campaign or call 202-628-4160

• Lambda Legal

Books

• “Transgender Nation” by Gordene Olga MacKenzie

• “Stone Butch Blues” by Leslie Feinberg

• “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us” by Kate Bornstein

• “True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism-For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals” by Mildred L. Brown & Chloe Anne Rounsley

• “The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender” by Kim Elizabeth Stuart

• “Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism” by Pat Califia

• “Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones” by Mary Boenke

• “Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender” by Riki Anne Wilchins

• “Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits” by Loren Cameron

• “Female Masculinity” by Judith Halberstam

• “Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India” by Serena Nanda

• “Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives” by Nancy and Casey Adair

• “Understanding Homosexuality: The Pride and the Prejudice” by Roger Biery

• "Bisexual Lives” by Off Pink Publishing

• “Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life” by Warren Blumenfeld & Diane Raymond

• “Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price” by Warren Blumenfeld

• “Familiar faces, hidden lives: The story of homosexual men in American today” by H. Brown

• “Loving Someone Gay” by Donald Clark

• “Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World” by Thomas Cowan

• “The Lesbian Path” by Margaret Cruikshank

• “Lesbian Studies: Present and Future” by Margaret Cruikshank

• “Homophobia: An Overview” by John De Cecco

• “Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in the Twentieth-Centruy America” by Lillian Faderman

• “Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook” by T. Geller

• “The Lavender couch” by Marny Hall

Websites

• Renaissance Transgender Support Group, Inc.

• Transgender Resources

• Transgender Support Site

• Female-To-Male Informational Network

• Transgender Forum

• Planet Q

• Queer America Database

• Gay Bookstore On-line

 

* Special thanks to Tiffany O’Shaughnessey