Learn how to foster collective energy for implementing the Healthy Campus Inventory and sustain momentum afterward. This session offers strategies for engaging stakeholders, aligning goals, and integrating the inventory into ongoing campus initiatives to drive lasting impact.

The Mental Health Section and Community College Coalition are happy to jointly sponsor a presentation on the Healthy Minds Alliance, an innovative AmeriCorps program that builds cost-effective organizational capacity to address bystander intervention, suicide prevention and other campus mental health needs. Learn more about the benefits and process of bringing a Healthy Minds Alliance AmeriCorps member to your campus for a 10-month term of full-time service. Dr. Celia Meyer, Director of the Healthy Minds Alliance will discuss the program, its goals, funding, application process; and other questions, while Angela Stowe, Director of Counseling at the University of Alabama Birmingham will discuss how her campus benefits from an Americorps member and what’s involved in making the program successful.

The Healthy Campus Inventory is an easy-to-use assessment tool that provides an instant customized report that enables organization and planning across your institution. Learn more about what Healthy Campus is, its history, why it was developed, and how it evolved to the current inventory and framework. Learn how to access and use the inventory on your campus to affect systems change.

Past research and commonly accepted knowledge points to stigma as the main barrier to help-seeking behavior for mental health challenges, but the research is sparse when it comes to teens and young adults. Young people care about their mental health and want to talk about it in more ways than older generations. This presentation will explore the barriers and predictors of help-seeking behaviors among teens in the U.S., based on mixed-methods research conducted in 2023 by The Jed Foundation.

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.