Cabinet Mental Health & Wellness Commitments

Colorado College is committed to raising our focus on mental health on campus to the highest level. Only when all our students, staff, and faculty can learn, work, and live in an environment that fosters mental wellness can we provide students with outstanding liberal arts education experiences and the skills and habits to live healthy lives. 基于对学生反馈的综合评估, faculty, staff, and parents, CC developed a plan of action.

我们的心理健康工作分为四个方面:

  • 与外部专家合作,帮助指导学院;
  • 为学生、教职员工提供的新资源和现有资源;
  • 解决Block Plan特有的压力源;
  • creating greater clarity and accessibility to resources in our communications and on our website.
ACTIONS  DESCRIPTION  OWNER  DEADLINE  UPDATE 

外部专家帮助指导学院 

Leveraging expertise to improve our approach to mental health and wellness resources available to campus  

Cabinet 

 

 

Mental Health & Wellness Task Force 

 

科罗拉多大学心理健康特别工作组 由教职员工学生组成 parents and alumni. The Task Force will take a holistic approach 为校园的心理健康干杯. 

 

Manya Whitaker  

Completed 

5 of the 7 working groups submitted final reports. 这些报告将为今后CC的精神卫生和保健工作提供信息.  

对我们的精神健康服务进行外部审查 

Rankin Climate conducted an external review of our mental health and wellness which included a communications audit and a 2-day visit to campus during which they met with 200 CC community members.

Manya Whitaker

Completed

兰金在2023年6月提交了最终报告. This report 将告知CC心理健康和保健的下一步措施.  

Denison & 其他大学对最佳实践的评论 

内阁成员和其他成员将访问精神健康方面得到认可的大学 as well as local colleges to learn new ways for managing mental health and wellness on campus  

Pedro de Araujo

Completed

Report written and submitted. Possible action items in the works: pulse surveys, reorganization of wellness resource center.

Healthy Minds Designation 

 

To earn the Healthy Minds designation, 学校必须在教学大纲和学生证上注明心理健康服务信息, 提供以改善心理健康为重点的预防项目, 每年至少举办一次宣传活动, and provide access to online mental health support or connect students to community resources 

Rochelle Dickey  

Block 5, 2023 

Checklist almost completed, then we can submit application; still working on: ensure all course syllabi and student IDs list mental health resources. 等待通过id上的二维码链接到大学健康网站 

埃尔帕索自杀预防协作会 

The Collaborative is an alliance of organizations and community leaders that have a collective purpose to design, organize, resource, and coordinate the implementation and maintenance of a unified strategy using the Colorado-National Collaborative (CNC) framework. 其目标是到2024年将埃尔帕索县的自杀死亡人数减少20%. 

Rochelle Dickey

Completed 

赌博正规的十大网站正式成为教育委员会的成员 & Awareness Committee 

为学生和教师提供新的和现有的资源 & staff 

通过我们的特别工作组和兰金气候我们将确定, 测试和投资新的和不同的资源,以满足学生的需求. 

 

ongoing 

资源继续与教师共享,以支持学生, 在我们的新教师培训(EC)中.

Hiring a new AVP for Wellness 

负责健康的助理副总裁将负责这一愿景, strategy, execution, 以及赌博正规的十大网站整体健康承诺的管理 

Lacy Karpilo

On Hold

The AVP for Wellness position is being reconsidered in the context of new mental health and wellness offerings across campus.

Peer-to-peer resources 

Working directly with student facilitators so that multiple new and existing peer support services will be available 

Rochelle Dickey 

Block 5, 2023 

Students have been working with Wellness Resource Center to leverage existing resources and plan for new ones.  

Additions to counseling staff 

 

我们知道我们的时间有限 available and are working toward increasing our counselors' hours and adding new services like 24-hour telehealth 

Rochelle Dickey 

End of year 

我们已经确定了一个提供商(VCG健康),ITS正在进行整合, 财务与待签合同(2年承诺).  

我们也刚刚与ThrivingCampus签订了合同, which connects students with curated external mental health providers for in-person or telehealth services 

Children’s Hospital partnership with NCAA Athletics 

新的试点调查程序允许识别 group/team mental health indictors to guide intentional programming decisions in partnership with Ch Hospital. Post pilot program, goal is to roll out to larger student community.   

Lesley Irvine

调查完成,调查结果正在分析中. Recommendations from CH ongoing.

调查已完成,趋势/风险因素已确定. Board presentation occurred in June. Peer coaching among one of the recommendations adopted from CH being pursued for the fall '23. Collaboration with campus ongoing to identify future populations to survey and to continue to develop CH from CH partnership.

Mental health & 对教员进行自杀预防培训 & staff 

通过我们的特别工作组和兰金气候将确定, 测试和投资新的和不同的资源,以满足学生的需求. 

Rochelle Dickey

Completed

我们已经签署了一份合同,并将要求所有教职员工采取 an online QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) suicide prevention training by end of Block 6

More & 不同的性侵犯应对和咨询人员 

我们认识到我们需要增加我们的重点、支持和服务 as well as a variety of counselors 

Rochelle Dickey 

Recommendations by Block 6 

To be a focus of our Task Force 

Assess Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

Assess current EAP access, quality, and services to ensure we have the required resources to meet staff and faculty mental health needs.  

Ryan Simmons 

Completed 

EAP assessment results:

  • EAP提供即时的电话支持, 但不包括紧急支持(应该使用911或811系统).
  • 大多数员工可以在3天内获得医疗服务,但是……
    • 员工对寻找咨询师的过程表示不满
    • Access for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ counsellors is limited due to lack of sufficient counsellors in the community.
    • EAP不能满足即时的现场危机支持需求.

 In discussions with Lacy Karpilo to review campus-wide resources that may address these needs.

Stress due to Block Plan 

 

我们认识到BP可以产生不同于学期学校的压力源 

 

 

 

针对心理健康问题的新缺勤指南 

我们认识到分块计划会给我们的学生和教师带来压力. Our Task Force will ex对这些压力源进行分析,并检查学生和教师的需求 recommend new ideas.  

Emily Chan 

Completed

The Faculty Executive Committee, Curriculum Executive Committee, 系主任们还讨论了对现有指导方针和政策的修订. New policy passed:

Students are expected to attend courses regularly and are responsible for course work whether present or not. 教师将决定其课程的出勤要求. In general, students who miss an examination or a paper deadline because of illness or personal emergency are allowed to take the exam or submit the paper later.

Attendance policies must allow each student one absence to support well-being without penalty, details, 或者文件(除了通知教授缺席之外). 教官可以指定特定的日子.g., 不能多次参加的考试, field trips) as days on which missing class will adversely affect a student’s grade because flexibility would put undue stress on other students and/or faculty.

Instructors should communicate such dates and their attendant grade consequences to students in advance. Instructors are not expected to reproduce class experiences for students who are absent. Syllabi may outline what steps students should take to prepare themselves to reengage with class upon their return.

所有的教学大纲都有心理健康资源信息. See sample syllabi statement.

Anonymous reporting tool for students 

We will be educating students that the course evaluation they fill out in Banner is completely anonymous and gives all students the opportunity to not just rate the class 而是分享对不安全的学习氛围或实践的担忧.  

Emily Chan

 

 

 

 

 

 





Lyrae
 Williams

Complete, launched Spring 2023

 

 

 

 







Completed

班纳所有学生完成的课程评估是100%匿名的. 匿名评论不仅被讲师看到, 还有系主任和教务长. The course evaluation data file contains no student information, code, identifiers at all. Therefore, they are fully anonymous and is an effective vehicle for students to share anonymous comments about courses.  

Speak Up Colorado College was launched in Block 5.

Colorado College believes that a fundamental ingredient of organizational success and well-being is that all community members conduct themselves with basic honesty and integrity and in accordance with college policy and the law. 加强沟通,鼓励社区成员推广诚信行为, community members may use this system to report concerns or ask questions about ethical conduct, policy violations, or illegal behavior. 一旦收到您的关注或问题, it will be reviewed and processed by the Office of the President or the Office of Civil Rights. 

教师对学生时间的限制  

宣布我们可以确保学生可以真正从课堂上休息一下, class assignments, emails, and notifications. 

Emily Chan

Done 

在全校范围内与全体教员进行规范制定讨论, executive committee levels, 在部门层面的学习和教学实践. Dean of the Faculty guidance on learning and instructional policies and practices that address time, scheduling, amount of work, learning objectives, and other instructional practices. 

Communications 

 

侧重于更清晰、透明、更容易获取的通信  

Todd Woodward

 ongoing

Internal Communications Manager is continuing to research and change the way we communicate with the campus, and building a strategic plan.

Health and Wellness website review 

审查我们所有的资源网站上的内容,以方便访问和清晰 

Todd Woodward

Block 1, 2023 

Assessment will begin in the Summer of 2023 but implementation will wait until the new AVP arrives 

总统和内阁听取和参与校园的新方式 

Block-by-block opportunities for students, staff and faculty to discuss issues facing campus 

Todd Woodward, Ryan Simmons

Block 8, 2023 

Working with the President’s office to outline all the ways we engage and get feedback from all areas of campus.

Cascading, human communications vs. digital  

We are too reliant on digital vs human communications especially in times of crises – we will develop a more timely and human process, 让校园里有人与人之间的对话和支持 

Todd Woodward, Ryan Simmons  

Block 6, 2023 

Same as above. 概述校园与领导面对面接触的所有方式

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