Dimension 3: Components of a Socio-Ecological Framework
This section contains resources on the following Standard clauses: early intervention, mental health supports, crisis management, and postvention.
Early Intervention
This website by CICMH offers training for non-clinical staff on how to recognize, respond, and refer students to services, as well as reflect on their interactions with students. You can watch a train-the-trainer workshop webinar here.
This CICMH webinar explores the 3 R’s: recognizing indicators of mental health challenges, responding in a way that is appropriate to the indicators that are present and the relationship you have with the student, and referring to the appropriate resources if needed, so that student can access the services available to them.
Early Alert System in Post-Secondary Campuses Infosheet
Research indicates that high attrition rates are caused by stress, burnout, and mental health issues. It is especially prominent amongst first-year students and international students in their transition period into post-secondary life who have not developed a sense of belonging and do not feel connected yet to campus life.
Mental Health Crisis Response on Campus Toolkit
This CICMH toolkit is designed to support faculty, staff, and campus administration in moving from a siloed-departmental approach to mental health crisis response, to a whole-campus approach where everyone plays a part.
Other relevant resources mentioned earlier in the document:
Mental Health Supports
Programming
This CICMH toolkit provides ways to implement and operate peer support programs on campus. A webinar on getting started with peer support can be viewed here.
Stepped Care for Post-Secondary Campuses Toolkit
This CICMH toolkit provides an overview of mental health service delivery on campus, steps to implement Stepped Care 2.0, and a review of challenges that stakeholders may experience during the implementation of Stepped Care 2.0.
This CICMH webinar will help leaders and administrators understand what it means to become a health promoting campus, and how understanding the Okanagan Charter is a crucial step to creating a campus plan for wellbeing.
Webinar: Walk-in Counseling on Campus
This CICMH webinar looks at the walk-in model at York University and how the model was adapted to meet the needs of the institution and its students. This webinar provides a brief outline on the structure of walk-in therapy and what staff and students can expect at a session.
Supporting Students in Distress Programs and Resources
The Bp-Net.ca Team is curating programs and resources on how to assist students in distress. This webpage provides links to resources at post-secondary institutions across Canada.
This CICMH webinar presents compelling pre- and post-research findings exploring the impacts of Thriving in Action upon students’ agency, CICMH’s Thriving in Action Training Institutes and growing community, arts-based mentorship and peer support Thriving in Action initiatives, and the Thriving in Action Online project.
Other relevant resources mentioned earlier in the document:
- Post-Secondary Student Mental Health: Guide to a Systemic Approach
- Student Mental Health Framework 2022-2026
- Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Students in Higher Education
- Webinar: Indigenizing Mental Health Care Within the Post-Secondary Setting
- Accessibility and Accommodations Toolkit
COVID-19
Campus Mental Health Across Canada: The Ongoing Impact of COVID-19
This MHCC report describes the findings of a survey of 69 Canadian post-secondary institutions, conducted by the Campus Mental Health Community of Practice from the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS). The report explores COVID-19 experiences in the 2020-21 academic year and in the planning period for the 2022 fall semester, and data on the utilization of the Standard. The French version can be found here.
Webinar: Delivering Virtual Counselling and Care to Post-Secondary Students
The emergence of COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the delivery of in-person mental health service delivery across Canadian campuses. To continue to meet the needs of students, many counseling departments are rapidly moving to deliver care through e-mental health technologies. This three-hour CICMH webinar will provide an opportunity to discuss system and practice level changes that can support the transition to virtual care and provide much needed supports to students.
Tips on Talking to Someone in Crisis During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic was, and continues to be, a source of anxiety for people across the country, and your colleagues, friends, or family may reach out to you for support. How should you respond? Use these active listening tips to navigate these sensitive conversations with more confidence. Also available in French here.
Coping with Stress, Anxiety, and Substance Use During COVID-19
This infographic provides an overview of facts, tips, and resources to help Canadians cope with stress, anxiety, and substance use during COVID-19. Topics covered include the signs and symptoms of anxiety or stress and coping mechanisms like square breathing. Also includes advice on monitoring substance use in times of stress and reducing harms. Also available in Inuktitut here, translated by the Nunalituqait Ikajuqatigiitut Inuit Association.
Being in an Abusive Home During COVID-19: Tips and Resources
Public health measures to fight COVID-19 have forced most of us to isolate indoors. But for individuals living in an abusive home, confinement can have profound consequences. If you are isolated with an abuser, use these tips and resources to protect your physical and psychological wellbeing.
Taking Charge of What You Can: A COVID-19 Toolkit
We all need to find a sense of control. This toolkit is designed to help you focus on the parts of your life that you can take charge of and stop spending energy on the things you cannot control.
COVID-19 Impact on College Student Mental Health
Active Minds surveyed 2,086 USA college students in April 2020 regarding the impact of COVID-19 on their mental health. This infographic illustrates the survey’s findings.
Other relevant resources mentioned earlier in the document:
Other
From Surviving to Thriving: Developing Personal and Academic Resilience
This resource can help you move from merely surviving your post-secondary experience, to thriving, by helping you build resilience and plan for stressful situations. Developing a plan to get through potentially stressful situations can have a positive impact on both your personal and academic life.
Webinar: Student Food Insecurity and the Impacts on Mental Health
Food insecurity on post-secondary campuses is a serious but overlooked issue, rarely being talked about from an institutional perspective. It is often left for campus food banks to address. The mental and physical health impacts of food insecurity are significant and can lead to poor academic performance, and poor health outcomes for students and their families. This HCA webinar provides an overview of student food insecurity and its drivers, the impact this has on mental health and wellbeing, and offers some solutions to increase recognition of the issue.
Campus-Community Partnerships Toolkit
This CICMH toolkit provides campuses and community agencies with a step-by-step process for developing effective partnerships. A webinar on the topic can be viewed here.
Webinar: Increasing Capacity to Support Students with an Eating Disorder
This CICMH webinar aims to increase the confidence of the many student services professionals — from residence and student life to campus mental health providers — who feel uncertain about how to best support these students. An information sheet on this topic can be found here.
Crisis Management Postvention
Webinar: Campus Suicide Prevention and Postvention
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among Canadian youth, which any post-secondary institute may confront on their campus. This CICMH webinar highlights best practices in life promotion, prevention, risk management, and postvention strategies that go into creating campus policies around student suicide.
Webinar: Campus Suicide Prevention and Postvention, Part II
Part II of this CICMH webinar offers specific examples of policies from campuses that have established prevention and postvention strategies.
Creating a Campus Suicide Prevention Framework
This HCA webinar reviews the process of developing and implementing a campus suicide prevention framework, getting buy-in from campus stakeholders, and integrating the framework into whole-campus strategies.
Suicide Prevention for International College Students
This Ohio State University’s brochure focuses on suicide prevention for international college students. This brochure has a list of resources, warning, risks, and signs regarding suicide.
Other relevant resources mentioned earlier in the document: