The following tools provide guidance on how to recognize and refer students in distress.
Student in Distress
- The guide covers who you should contact if you have a concern and includes a contact list for key campus departments who can assist you.
Student of Concern Consultation | UCSF Student Life
- Student of Concern Consultation is a service offered by Student Life that partners with our campus departments, faculty, and staff by fostering collaboration and offering recommendations regarding issues concerning our students.
Promoting Student Mental Health: A guide for UC faculty and staff
- This guide was developed jointly by all 10 UC campuses and Office of the President
- The guide is available online or you may request a printed copies by emailing your school/division Mental Health Liaison to request a copy.
- The guide covers campus specific resources as well as:
- Recognizing Students in Distress
- Indicators of Distress
- Knowing When and How to Take Action
- Cultural Diversity: Barriers to seeking care and special considerations
- Responding to a Distressed Student
- Unique Considerations for Professional and Graduate students
- What can you do as a faculty or staff member to reduce student stress?
Listserv
- SMHW maintains a listserv which is used to distribute information to staff and faculty relevant to student mental health needs.
- SMHW will send approximately 4-8 message per year which contain information such as:
- List of outreach programs each term to which you can refer students
- Updated resource information (ex: SeeSayDo guide updates)
- Notice of change in SMHW services
Sign up instructions:
- To subscribe follow these directions exactly:
- Send a one-line email message from the email address you want to use to receive information.
- In the "To" field, enter: [email protected]
- Leave the "Subject" field blank! Do not enter any text here.
- In the body of the message, enter: subscribe shcsfacstaff yourfirstname yourlastname
- (Substitute in your own first and last names.)