Student Mental Health Report: Community Capacity
The following recommendations focus on increasing community capacity to identify students in need and more effectively connect them with support.
For more details on these recommendations, read the full report.
Statuses: In-Progress, Completed, On-going.
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | Review the “Protocol for Responding to Students at Risk” considering new evidence and promising practices to ensure a strengths-based approach reducing stigma and effectively supporting underserved students. | In Progress |
| 21 | Support institution-wide mental well-being awareness by integrating education and training into onboarding for new employees. | |
| 22 | Consider ways to incentivize and/or mandate mental health training and recertification for existing staff, faculty, and other key actors. | |
| 23 | Assess mental well-being education and training demands and gaps, with consideration of compassion and trauma-informed approaches, and alignment with anti-racism, allyship, and cultural competence training to revitalize training for staff, faculty, and students, focusing on those in leadership and ‘gatekeeper’ roles (who have frequent direct contact with students). | In Progress |
| 24 | Continue building capacity, partnerships, and collaboration among faculty and staff to support students in the form of interdepartmental well-being events or committees to promote knowledge exchange and collective impact across U of G. | In Progress |
| 25 | Enhance pre-arrival programs and early alert processes, to create sustainable and embedded approaches to identify those in need and promote student success. |