Many CCC have been able to build additional capacity to provide mental health services to students by entering into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with local agencies. This guide is designed to help CCC understand the nature, purpose, and scope of an MOU with a provider, and includes a template for working with local partners.
California’s Mental Health Movement, Each Mind Matters, has made stigma reduction a top priority. This fact sheet provides an overview of primary stigma reduction strategies and offers recommendations for the CCC for implementation.
College student hunger is a pressing concern. Many CCC students are eligible for federal and state benefits programs, such as CalFresh, that can help them afford food and other necessities. Colleges can help by becoming EBT retailers, so that students can use their benefits to make purchases on campus.
Nearly 40,000 students from 57 CCC participated in the #RealCollege Survey from the CCC Chancellor’s Office and The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice in fall of 2016 and 2018. Seven in 10 respondents had experienced food insecurity or housing insecurity or homelessness in the last year.
There is a wide spectrum of mental health conditions that impact students, ranging from mild depression, stress, and anxiety, to clinically diagnosed mental illness, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
