{"id":906,"date":"2025-10-30T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=906"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:22:25","slug":"support-for-students-affected-by-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/10\/30\/support-for-students-affected-by-hurricane-melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for students affected by Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened to learn about the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean. We are aware that students and staff may be feeling worried about the safety of loved ones. We\u2019re here to support you.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Student Support and Wellbeing <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you feel like you are struggling and you want to speak to someone from Student Support and Wellbeing, you can make an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Student Support and Wellbeing are available Monday \u2013 Friday, 9:00 \u2013 17:00 and you can find them in Eliot Extension:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phone: 01227 823158<\/li>\n<li>Email: <a href=\"mailto:KentSSW@kent.ac.uk\">KentSSW@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>24\/7 support services<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>For support at any time of day or night, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/support\/getting-support-now\">Emergency Support page<\/a>\u00a0with details on online and telephone support available round the clock for Kent students.<\/p>\n<p>Our partner organisation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/spectrum-life\">Spectrum Life<\/a>\u00a0can offer you online, text and telephone support from qualified counsellors and mental health professionals.\u00a0You can call them in the evenings and at weekends on 0800 0318227 pressing option 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened to learn about the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean. We are aware that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/10\/30\/support-for-students-affected-by-hurricane-melissa\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,183846],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}