Purpose Statement
The Student Conduct and Mental Health Toolkit is a guide for everyone in the campus community to understand how to effectively support post-secondary students facing behavioural disruptions, which often signal underlying mental health conditions. In recent years, student conduct has evolved to reflect a growing awareness of the complex relationship between conduct issues and mental health. This toolkit acknowledges these changes and aims to provide the campus community, including student conduct practitioners, case managers, faculty, administrative staff, counselling services, health services, student leaders, student services, and other student support services, with a clear understanding of student conduct. It allows them to provide support, make referrals, and collaborate with other campus departments, integrating restorative justice practices and focusing on the importance of multi-disciplinary teams and an integrated holistic approach to supporting students.
This toolkit focuses specifically on non-academic misconduct, as academic misconduct is addressed through separate procedures and managed by different staff within institutions.
This toolkit does not hope to create experts in this complex field, but instead seeks to improve and influence current processes, ensuring the campus community can better support students.
Please note, as with all our toolkits, this is a living document. As we continue to learn about this subject, more will be added to reflect emerging and promising practices as they relate to student conduct and mental health.
