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 ethics of multiple relationships in healthcare professions has historically received significant attention, particularly from a “do no harm” risk management approach. Less attention has been paid to multiple relationships in university healthcare settings, where they are frequent and unavoidable. The presentation will address both a risk management and positive ethics approach, including a brief history of multiple relationships, defining terminology, sharing real world examples, and applying an ethical decision making model to case studies.

As reflective practitioners, it’s critical to grapple with underlying frameworks that shape our understanding of student identities and experiences. One place where biases often go unchecked is in our approaches to student substance use, addiction, and recovery. This session will engage participants in a survey tool to guide a review of assumptions and beliefs that develop our professional and personal approaches to student drug use. Themes and takeaways will also be shared from implementing this tool with professionals around the country.

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.

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 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.

This presentation will introduce participants to Connect for Success, a program to expand sexual and reproductive health supports for community college students. I will present research from UCSF that demonstrates the need for this program, and will give an overview of the program’s origins, goals, and progress.

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.