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Engaging State Policymakers to Support College Student Mental Health: A Resource Guide for Campus Leaders
This toolkit from the American Council on Education provides knowledge and resources to help campus leaders, staff, and students advocate for increased state support and funding for college student mental health.
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Responding to Suicide: Postvention Guidance for Student Housing Managers
The Jed Foundation—in partnership with the College Student Mental Wellness Advocacy Coalition and Hi, How Are You Project (HHAYP)—has released an emergency preparedness guidebook for student housing managers on how to handle the sudden and tragic loss of a community resident. Titled Responding to Suicide: Postvention Guidance for Student Housing Managers, the guidebook offers protocols…
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Firearm Safety Counseling
From the Suicide and Trauma Reduction Initiative for Veterans (STRIVE) YouTube channel, Dr. Craig Bryan demonstrates the firearm safety counseling approach used in brief cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (BCBT) with an at-risk patient. This approach is influenced by the core principles of motivational interviewing, and involves four general phases: Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and…
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Mental Health Crisis Response on Campus
Developed by the Center for Innovation in Campus Mental Health, this toolkit provides guidance and direction for campuses to develop wholistic approaches to crisis management.
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More Colleges Are Hiring Crisis-Response Teams for Mental-Health Emergencies (2022)
This article is from the Chronicle of Higher Education and is about the movement of many universities toward crisis response teams for mental health emergencies.
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Guidelines for Responding to Students in Crisis at the University at Albany
The University at Albany has shared its Guidelines for Responding to a Student in Crisis. These guidelines are intended to assist faculty, professional staff, administrators, and other University employees in addressing student-related crises. While some campus officials play more active roles in responding to student crises, it is important for all University faculty and professionals…
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Code of Virginia § 23.1-804: Institutional crisis and emergency management plan.
This is the Virginia Code requiring all public institutions to develop and adapt crisis management plans.
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988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
This website gives background and current information about the crisis line and crisis response resources.
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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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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…
