The Mapping the DNA of Integrated College Health Services Webinar Series will be a series of continuing education opportunities for ACHA members addressing the organization and delivery of integrated services (health, counseling, health promotion) on college and university campuses. Each webinar will focus on a key topic of integration such as integrated program models, culture building across professional disciplines, space design and layout, shared policies and practices, shared electronic records, and integration with campus partners. The webinar series is being sponsored by the newly formed ACHA Integrated College Health Coalition and will also include the development of a repository of evidence-informed models of integration, published articles, implementation guides, policies and practices for integrated systems, and other useful integrated college health resources.

The Drug Free Schools and Campuses Regulations requires all IHE's receiving Federal Funds to provide annual notification, maintain a substance abuse program, and complete a full review of their program on a biennial basis. This webinar will review the act's history, its current requirements, how the act is monitored/enforced, and provide suggestions and examples of how community colleges can go about complying with this important mandate.

Since the Dobbs ruling in 2022, ending the constitutional right to abortion, ACHA and ACHF produced three key documents to support college health professionals in meeting students’ sexual and reproductive health needs. Join leaders from ACHA’s Reproductive Rights Advocacy Subcommittee (formerly the Reproductive Rights Task Force) and ACHF’s State of Sexual and Reproductive Health on Campus Report team to learn more about these resources, share strategies, and find out how you can get involved in ACHA & ACHF’s efforts.

Join us for a presentation on how establishing student-led mental health advocacy programs at your community college can transform the campus culture surrounding mental health. Drawing from the experiences of Active Minds leaders at Community Colleges nationwide, this presentation will highlight the key benefits of student-led advocacy and provide practical guidance on starting and maintaining a thriving, student-led group tailored to the unique needs of your community college.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adaptation and demand for telemedicine has expanded, prompting Johns Hopkins University Student Health primary care to adopt a hybrid approach, offering both in-person and telemedicine visits. With the goal to increase access for a growing student population in the coming years. This session aims to share the QI study findings, which are focused on refining telemedicine scheduling and discerning optimal appointment types., These insights will help guide the effective allocation of chief complaints to either in-person or telemedicine visits for other practices, allowing for optimizing scalability and service accessibility.

The need for information about how institutions address students' mental health is high. To this end, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the Student Well-being Institutional Support Survey (SWISS) partnered to create a Topical Module on student mental health and well-being for 2023. This session will describe what we learned from the survey and the implications for institutional practice. Special focus will be on first-generation students, whose unique challenges in navigating collegiate experiences can impact their well-being.

This session will review manifestations of STIs in the mouth and hands and discuss transmission risks from digital contact, oral sex, and deep kissing. We will review case scenarios and review counseling messages for patients/students who ask about risks of STI/HIV transmission from oral sex.

In this session, health promotion specialists from a large public university will share general information about their experience with grants of various sizes, approaches to and considerations for the grant writing process, and lead practice with simple grant applications. This session is intended for health promotion specialists and administrators with no or some grant writing experience. It is not intended for those with extensive grant writing experience.

Students come where they feel welcome and stay where they feel valued and cared for. The Institute for Evidence Based Change has developed a program that works with college Staff and Faculty to create a sense of belonging through behavioral commitments that has proven to help colleges develop a relational approach to serving students. This presentation will share this approach, including data that supports its success when faithfully implemented.

Mental health and other dimensions of wellness in higher education continue to be a priority among students, staff, faculty and administration. Most are in agreement that the conversation must shift away from individual wellness indicators and towards a more holistic well-being approach that includes effective policies, programs and services. Through informal surveys and online conversations, it’s clear that student health and counseling centers still often perceive themselves as being responsible for student well-being and that a conversation about how to engage and break down silos with other campus entities on well-being work is needed. Campuses utilizing public health and social change models in order to guide campus-wide well-being efforts are proving beneficial. After this session, attendees will be able to better understand what evidence-based methods and models are useful for well-being work, the processes campuses are using to choose a functional model and some of the challenges and successes resulting from their use.