Boston University’s Counseling and Wellness Center will close on July 9 in an effort to improve the handling of mental health issues on campus, Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said Friday, June 25.

Elmore said the decision to close the center was the culmination of a two-year assessment of campus offices. The Wellness Center deals with student health issues such as personal mental health counseling, career counseling and healthy living education.

“I met with the employees of the Counseling and Wellness Center about two weeks ago to tell them what I had decided,” Elmore said.

All six employees were let go in the process, according to Elmore. They included the center’s director, two counselors, two administrative assistants and a health educator.

Counseling and Wellness Center representatives could not be reached for comment.

Services formerly offered by the center will be redistributed to Student Health Services and the Dean of Students Office, Elmore said.

Student Health Services will take over personal counseling and the Dean of Students Office will handle career counseling and healthy living education.

Elmore said students should not expect the reorganization to make the services offered at the center difficult to find because the change will make campus counseling services more efficient and convenient.

“Before we had two different centers on campus dealing with mental health,” Elmore said. “Now there will be one center and it will be more coordinated. It is the best way to process students’ issues.”

Elmore said he hopes the move will help bring student wellness to the forefront of student life issues and help the university to better handle mental health issues.

“The current people who handle mental health at Student Health Services will be handling the demands for mental health issues,” he said. “We’re going to make sure we’re able to meet that demand, and if that should include adding more staff or improving the services in any way, we’re going to make that happen.”

Elmore said the university plans to continue holding the annual Wellness Fair in the George Sherman Union, adding that last year’s event was extremely successful.`

“It was a nice event held in Metcalf Hall,” he said. “We organized it toward the end of the spring semester, when everyone was starting to get stressed out. It was a lot of fun.”