Student Mental Health Report: Services and Accessibility
These recommendations pertain to providing a range of appropriate and effective services to support students through mental health challenges and recovery.
For more details on these recommendations, read the full report.
Statuses: In Progress, Completed, Ongoing.
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Prioritize access to high-quality childcare and early learning services by aligning Childcare and Learning Centre hours with student schedules. Continue to support play-based learning programs and workshops while ensuring parents have access to community services. | |
| 30 | Support Student Wellness’ ongoing work to establish service evaluation metrics and facilitate publicly sharing these findings with the community. | In Progress |
| 31 | Review opportunities to support and revitalize peer-based wellness programing. | |
| 32 | Continue intentional, collaborative design and provision of intersectional well-being resources and supports such as those for 2SLGBTQIA+, Black and other racialized students, international students, and students who have experienced trauma. Continue safer spaces training and compassion and trauma-informed education that acknowledge the impacts of colonization, climate change, political unrest, and the COVID-19 pandemic. | In Progress |
| 33 | Explore innovative strategies to improve access to Mental Health Services for Ridgetown Campus. | |
| 34 | Continue ongoing advocacy efforts to local, provincial, and/or federal levels of government for availability of timely mental health services and supports and sustainable funding for primary care and counselling. | In Progress |
| 35 | Further integrate Student Wellness Navigators within the Department of Student Wellness through ongoing collaboration with primary care and mental health care services to promote a holistic integrated approach to delivering care. | In Progress |
| 36 | Leverage connections with the Guelph Wellington Ontario Health Team, Upper Grand District School Board, Maplewoods Centre, The Grove, and other community agencies to expand health promotion, prevention activities, and treatment capacity through knowledge and resource exchange. | In Progress |