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.