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04/29/2026

SAS staff supported the Fresh Check Day at the college. Thanks to Cass, Taylor, Bernadette and Erin for volunteering and to Tina from Counseling & Wellness for organizing this beneficial event for our QCC students.

04/28/2026

Look for our staff at the rock painting table. Come out to enjoy all the offerings.

College can be a lot. You don’t have to navigate it alone.

Fresh Check Day is a space to pause, connect, and learn about mental health in a way that’s real, supportive, and stigma-free.

📍 QCC Quad
📅 April 28
⏰ 12–2:30 PM

Bring a friend. Start a conversation. Take a moment for yourself 💛

04/26/2026

Consent is never assumed.

Denim Day is a global awareness effort focused on sexual violence prevention and survivor support. It promotes respect, accountability, and community care while standing in solidarity with survivors.

How to participate:
• Wear denim on April 29
• Be part of a culture of consent

04/22/2026

Sending our thanks and appreciation to Kristine, Kevin, and all administrative assistants across the campus!

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to the dedicated, detail-oriented, and always-reliable admins who keep everything running smoothly. Your hard work does not go unnoticed - we appreciate all that you do!

04/21/2026

Join Megan for a study session in the First Gen Center! Prepare for the last weeks of the semester!

04/19/2026

Fresh Check Day is coming to QCC 💚
Join us on April 28 from 12–2:30 PM on the Quad for a fun, interactive event focused on mental health, self-care, and connection.

Stop by booths, grab free giveaways, and learn how to support yourself and others. You’re not alone—and you matter.

04/18/2026

As we celebrate Neurodiversity & Autism Acceptance Month at QCC, today's book recommendation, The reason I Jump is by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within.

Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again.

04/16/2026

People are more familiar with the term Dyslexia, but it's close cousin, Dyscalculia, is valid for the many who struggle with numbers, formulas, and ratios. The author describes how her own Dysclaculia impacted her trajectory into dating and finding love.

Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix
When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything—from her early childhood trauma and mental health to her relationship with mathematics—shows up in the tapestry of her healing. In this exquisite and raw reflection, Felix repossesses herself through the exploration of history she’d left behind, using her childhood “dyscalculia”—a disorder that makes it difficult to learn math—as a metaphor for the consequences of her miscalculations in love. Through reckoning with this breakup and other adult gambles in intimacy, Felix asks the question: Who gets to assert their right to pain?
Dyscalculia negotiates the misalignments of perception and reality, love and harm, and the politics of heartbreak, both romantic and familial.

04/15/2026

Need a laugh? Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed.

As a neurodiverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that that he wasn’t the problem—the system and the concept of normal were—saved Mooney’s life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they’re trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the problem. But, he argues, if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a revolution.
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04/14/2026

Today's book, the Bride Test by Helen Hoang, is a romance which takes us to Vietnam, where an autistic young man is searching for a bride. Author Helen Hoang identifies as autistic, and is know for love stories with authentic depictions of autism and neurodiversity.

See the description and join us on this reading journey!
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.
As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can't turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who's convinced he can never return her affection.

04/13/2026

We continue to celebrate Neurodiversity & Autism Acceptance Month with another great book by an author who learned she was autistic when she was 34-years old! See the description, and pick this up for a good read!

A Little Less Broken by Marian Schembari
Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned she was autistic. By then, she'd spent decades hiding her tics and shutting down in public, wondering why she couldn't just act like everyone else. Therapists told her she had Tourette's syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensory processing disorder, social anxiety, and recurrent depression. They prescribed breathing techniques and gratitude journaling. Nothing helped.
It wasn't until years later that she finally learned the truth: she wasn't weird or deficient or moody or sensitive or broken. She was autistic.
Today, more people than ever are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Testing improvements have made it easier to identify neurodivergence, especially among women and girls who spent decades dismissed by everyone from parents to doctors, and misled by gender-biased research. A diagnosis can end the cycle of shame and invisibility, but only if it can be found.
In this deeply personal and researched memoir, Schembari's journey takes her from the mountains of New Zealand to the tech offices of San Francisco, from her first love to her first child, all with unflinching honesty and good humor.

04/09/2026

Celebrating Neurodiversity & Autism Acceptance Month with a great book for youngsters! Highly recommended! Here is the summary:

Wonderfully Wired Brains teaches children aged 7-9 all about the awesome abilities that neurodiverse individuals have, introduces them to advocates who are challenging neurodiversity stereotypes, and most importantly gives them a safe space to feel accepted.This inspirational book written by neurodiverse author Louise Gooding challenges misconceptions and shows how neurodivergent brains work a little differently. Our brains are unique in the way they function, work, and think. Neurodiversity is still a relatively ’new’ concept that can be tricky to understand, but this book is here to help!

This informative and educational book for children features:
• A positive, friendly look at neurodiverse brains that debunks myths and stereotypes.
• Informative, inclusive text is accompanied by colorful, modern illustrations.
• The font and colors used have been selected to accommodate a range of neurodiverse readers.
• Accurate, understandable explanations of diagnoses that impact the brain, including each area of neurodiversity and what it can or does mean for anyone with that particular neurological difference.
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