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Welcome to the Playbook! This database is packed with policies and programs designed to help schools build effective mental health plans. We know that every school is unique, so feel free to pick and choose the strategies that make sense for your school’s resources and priorities. Use the Playbook to customize a plan that aligns with your goals and fosters a healthier, more supportive environment for your students.
Domains
Promote Social Connectedness
Foster supportive social connections with campus, family, and friends to combat loneliness and reduce the risk of mental health problems or suicide.
Identify Students At Risk
Empower key influencers like residence hall staff, academic advisors, faculty, and fellow students to recognize and refer students in distress, fostering a culture of support on campus.
Address Obstacles for Seeking Help
Promote awareness of mental health services, dispel treatment skepticism, combat stigmas, and clarify cost and insurance concerns to encourage students in need to seek help proactively.
Provide Mental Health &
Substance Abuse Services
Incorporate diverse staff, flexible treatment options, and clinic hours aligned with student schedules. Facilitate access to off-campus resources for long-term care when needed, especially considering the often limited duration of free treatment in college clinics.
Establish Crisis Management Procedures
Ensure 24/7 access to crisis phone/chat lines and publicize them widely on campus. Establish a process for legally appropriate information sharing between local ERs and school health/counseling services.
Promote Means Safety
Thoroughly scan the campus environment to limit access to potentially harmful items such as weapons, poisonous chemicals, and high places, reducing the risk of self-harm and accidental deaths.
Develop Life Skills Education
Educate students on healthy coping strategies for college stress, focusing on life skills such as friendship and relationship management, problem-solving, decision-making, emotional identification and management, healthy living, and discovering life purpose and identity.
Frameworks
Support the Mental Health of Students of Color
Support the Mental Health of LGBTQA+ Students
Support the Mental Health of Student Parents
Support the Mental Health of Graduate Students
Support the Mental Health of
All Students
JED Toolkits
Mental Health Resource Center
Uncover key insights into prevalent emotional health challenges and discover actionable ways for peers to support each other, overcome obstacles, and successfully navigate the journey into adulthood.
Seize the Awkward
Check in on your friends, even the ones who seem “strong.” Initiating a conversation about mental health doesn't have to be awkward—it can be a game-changer.
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