Response Emergency Assessment Crisis Team

REACT is the Response Emergency Assessment Crisis Team at UMGC. The team is comprised of staff from multiple UMGC departments with a variety of professional backgrounds.

REACT exists to provide UMGC students with mental health and wellness resources.

No, this service is not applicable for staff and faculty members. Faculty and staff should be referred to employee relations at UMGC.

No, conversations will not be completely confidential. Based on the concerns and needs of the student, dangerous behavior and threats will be reported to the appropriate authorities. We do not disclose medical diagnoses.

You may be able to submit reports to the REACT team anonymously. However, anonymous reports may limit follow-up if REACT has questions about the report. 

REACT does not administer punishments. Its primary focus is on providing resources to UMGC students and identifying potential threats to the community. Threats to people or UMGC community, however, will be referred to the appropriate offices for review.

If you have immediate safety/welfare concerns about a student at UMGC, please dial 911. Students not in immediate danger but exhibiting concerning behavior should be reported to REACT.

Anyone who feels a student’s welfare or success is at risk can refer students to REACT.

Submit a report using our REACT form. 

Your report should include:

• The reporter’s name, email and phone numbers.
• The name and email of the student.
• Nature of the report/threat to others or threat to self.
• Is the student without housing?
• Is the student military-affiliated?
• A description of the concerning behavior.

• Suicide concerns (threats, gestures, or attempts)
• Egregious non-compliance and inflammatory disciplinary matters
• Violent content
• Anger problems
• Homicidal idealization
• Stalking
• Fascination with weapons
• Interest in previous shooting situations
• Paranoia
• Strange or aberrant behavior
• Violence or cruelty
• Acting out
• Recent police contact
• Mental health history related to dangerousness
• Unusual interest in police, military, terrorist activities and material

Please note that the more information provided, the better equipped REACT will be to assist the student. 

REACT team members utilize an online triage tool and risk rubric to evaluate cases involving threats or problem behavior. This data is not stored in the online system. Follow-up actions are determined by REACT’s evaluation of the student’s behavior, based on the use of the risk rubric.

REACT can provide community resources for students who are undergoing financial hardships or are in need of wellness resources, including programs and community resources that may be able to help you obtain crisis counseling, tuition waivers, disaster assistance, rental assistance, and more.

Yes. REACT offers several resource recommendations for military and veteran students, also found on UMGC wellness resources page. Military-affiliated students can also utilize the Vessey Virtual Student Union.

Yes. REACT will assist in evaluating troubling student behavior across all three divisions. 

If you are a student in Europe and Asia who is experiencing a life-threatening emergency, you should dial your appropriate local or base emergency number. Your base chaplain is also a resource. For non-urgent assistance or resources, please contact UMGC Asia Student Services or Europe Student Services.