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Taking a Leave of Absence: A Guide for Campus Leadership, Faculty, & Staff (2021)
Provided by the Ruderman Family Foundation in partnership with Active Minds, this guide is designed to assist faculty and staff with creating a culture of caring and support for students who have decided to take a leave of absence. It provides strategies that institutions can use to assist students in their decision to take a…
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Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) Training
The CAMS Framework™ is a clinical philosophy of care. It is a therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment and treatment of a patient’s suicidal risk. It is a flexible approach that can be used across theoretical orientations and disciplines for a wide range of suicidal patients across treatment settings and different treatment modalities.
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Triage Webinar: Eliminating the Waitlist
by Warrenetta Mann, Psy.D., The College of William and Mary
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Best Practices for Supporting Suicidal Students within a Risk Management Framework
A resource that provides an explanation of how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act apply to suicidal students. It includes the basic steps a university should take to accommodate distressed students’ needs. The author emphasizes the importance of focusing on the needs of the distressed student and how…
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Safety Plan Template: My Safety Plan
A safety plan is a prioritized list of coping strategies and sources of support. It can help you to identify what leads to your thoughts of suicide, and how to feel better when you are having these thoughts. As a result, you can help yourself to stay safe.
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Supporting Students: A Model Policy for Colleges and Universities (Bazelon, 2007)
This resource created by The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law provides a useful model for universities to address the concerns of a distressed student and “…develop a nondiscriminatory approach to a student who is in crisis because of a mental health problem.” This resource focuses on providing support and care for the student to…
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Student Mental Health and the Law: A Resource for Institutions of Higher Education (JED, 2008)
From the JED Foundation comes this comprehensive assessment of legal implications for universities in managing the needs of distressed students. This resource provides useful explanations of federal laws, including FERPA (pages 7 to 8), HIPAA (page 10), and ADA (pages 12 to 19). This resource is very useful in addressing a wide variety of concerns…
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Resources
This resource library is a compilation of publications and websites that are related to suicide prevention, intervention, postvention, and mental well-being promotion. Use the dropdown to browse by category or click the Resources link in the navigation for an easy-to-browse option.