Education

 

From You, I Get the Story: Amplifying the Voices of Students with Mental Health Issues on College Campuses

Listening to college students with mental health issues – we mean really listening, is the way forward to creating welcoming and embracing higher education environments. This document brings more than 50 student voices to the forefront to help college faculty, administrators, and staff better understand and serve students with significant mental health issues. Read their thoughts about what students think faculty, staff, administrators, and other students should understand about them, advice they would give to other students about being successful and dealing with discrimination, and more.

 

 

 

Fall 2020 Back to Campus Planning Guide for College Students with Mental Health Conditions

Check out our new Fall 2020 Back to Campus Planning Guide! This document provides helpful tips for college students with mental health conditions, including considerations for remote, in-person, and hybrid learning formats. We also cover self-advocacy planning and campus engagement planning strategies that will help you maintain your academic success and well-being as a college student in 2020!

 

 

Campus Engagement-Oriented Supported Education

Did you know that students with mental illnesses are more likely to withdraw from college before completing their degree than students without mental illnesses? Supported education is an evidence-based practice for assisting students with mental illnesses in achieving their personal education goals. This manual discusses our supported education intervention, which focused on  promoting campus engagement in students. Using distance communication to support students across the country, we utilized strategies for helping students identify their interests, find opportunities on campus, and develop and utilize natural support systems.

 

 

20 Apps for Student Success

Looking for apps that help support campus engagement? Our supported education specialists have identified 20 apps that can be used to support students with a tool they’re already using: their phone! These apps support students in areas such as productivity, campus engagement, mental health and wellness, stress management, finances, and social support!

 

About Supported Education

This one page overview provides a quick summary of Supported Education and its importance. It includes a definition of supported education and educational specialists and what supported education can look like in practice.

 

Your College Community: How People with Psychiatric Disabilities Can Make the Most of Their College Experience

This manual details the various opportunities for support, social and personal growth, wellness, and entertainment students can find on campus. The guide provides tips on what college students should expect and how to take advantage of all that their college or university has to offer from arts and culture, health and recreation, academic supports, and maintaining mental wellness and recovery. Providers or student peer support specialists are welcome to adjust the manual to their specific college or university campus, or insert contact information to resources specific to the college so that they can tailor the students’ experience.

 

 

Education Fact Sheet: Consumers

This fact sheet summarizes the strategies and resources which can be used by mental health consumers to support them in reaching their educational goals, from obtaining a GED or enrolling in a trade school to succeeding in higher education.  These documents may also be adapted to include the specific supports and services offered by your community or organization.

 

 

Education Fact Sheet: Providers

This fact sheet summarizes the strategies and resources which can be used by mental health providers to support them in reaching their educational goals, from obtaining a GED or enrolling in a trade school to succeeding in higher education.  These documents may also be adapted to include the specific supports and services offered by your community or organization.

 

A Practical Guide for People with Disabilities Who Want to Go to College

This document provides a practical guide for people with disabilities who want to pursue their higher education goals. We provide an overview of the challenges and supports needed to help achieve this goal, which can include finding the right school, locating supports, managing your disability and your education, and using your new educational qualifications in the search for a better job. Other areas addressed include assessing your own interests and skills, funding your education, disclosing your disability, and locating supports and services to succeed in school. This versatile guide can be used by consumers, rehabilitation and/or case management personnel, and family members/friends or individuals with disabilities.

 

The Barriers Faced by College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities

Dr. Mark Salzer, Ph.D. Director of the Temple University Collaborative, was interviewed by Larry Abramson from NPR’s All Things Considered on December 2, 2008, along with Karen Bower, Esq from the Bazelon Center for Metal Health Law on the barriers college students with psychiatric disabilities face. NPR Article

 

 

 

The College Experience

This document provides students in college settings – along with their parents and instructors – tips for reducing the stresses that commonly impact college students, in addition to providing guidance on the type of ‘reasonable accommodations’ students with psychiatric disabilities can request to help them meet the demands of college.

 

Supporting Students: A Model Policy for Colleges and Universities

This 2007 monograph from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law provides a set of model policies for colleges and universities to use in responding to the complex issues raised by college students in crisis.  It suggests guiding principles and specific activities related to offering appropriate counseling and referral, assuring confidentiality, providing reasonable accommodations, making and ending leaves of absence, utilizing disciplinary procedures in a nondiscriminatory way, and educating and training university personnel.