Health & Wellness Resources

Addressing Student Mental Health: Begin with a Needs Assessment

This fact sheet outlines why and how to begin a needs assessment process at a community college.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) College Students

Cultural competency, cultural responsiveness and cultural humility have become imperatives in teaching and service practices with Asian American and Pacific Islander students. The presenter provides clinical information and research, in addition to personal stories garnered from AAPI students. The presentation … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Balancing Safety and Support on Campus: A Guide to Campus Behavioral Intervention Teams – The Jed Foundation

The Higher Education Mental Health Alliance (HEMHA) produced a “Balancing Safety and Support on Campus” guide for campus behavior teams. This webinar will provide an overview of this guide. The session will review the background of campus teams and their … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Basic Needs Best Practices

Survey participants described best practices from their college or other CCCs for supporting students’ basic needs.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Basic Needs Summary Report

In Fall 2017, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) conducted a survey of the CCC system to learn what supports are available to help with students’ basic needs, such as food and housing. Survey respondents provided information about campus … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Behavioral Intervention Team Facilitated Q&A Session with the Jed Foundation Webinar

This session is a question and answer format to allow participants to ask any questions they may have on behavioral intervention teams.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Building Collaborative Relationships: Community Colleges, County Mental Health Departments, and Local Mental Health Providers

The Collaboration Toolkit is for county behavioral health and mental health departments and community colleges to develop sustainable partnerships, and also allow both organizations to better understand their respective systems, processes, and help both find ways to identify partners from … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

California Community Colleges Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Guidebook

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 … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Campus Basic Needs Webpages

This resource was developed based on the Fall 2017 California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) Basic Needs Survey. This spreadsheet includes survey respondents’ links to pages on their campus website where students can access food, housing, and essentials such as … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Campus Mental Health Basics: A Primer for California Community College Faculty and Staff

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.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Campus-Based Stigma Reduction Activities

California’s Mental Health Movement, Each Mind Matters, has made stigma reduction a top priority. This fact sheet from the CCC Chancellor’s Office provides an overview of primary stigma reduction strategies and offers recommendations for the California Community Colleges (CCC) for … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Considerations for Naming Your Behavioral Intervention Team

Many colleges and universities have moved to institute or further develop behavioral intervention teams on their campuses as a way to centralize information about emotionally distressed or disturbed students.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

County Profiles (10)

The California Community Colleges Student Mental Health Program (CCC SMHP) for the Health Services Association – California Community Colleges (HSACCC) has County Profiles to provide an individualized snapshot of prevention and early intervention resources that are available to your faculty, … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Crisis Text Line Webinar

The Chancellor’s Office, in partnership with the Foundation are working with the Crisis Text Line, a national organization that facilitates text-based mental health support. The goal of the collaboration is to implement a Crisis Text Line service specifically targeting California … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Culturally Responsive Services for AAPI Student Success

This publication will present some common barriers related to mental health shared by students from Asian American and Pacific Islander racial and ethnic backgrounds, and will describe how resources specific to the community college system can help support their access … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSPS) for Students with Mental Health Disabilities

This factsheet is designed for administrators, staff, disabled student service providers, faculty, and other CCC stakeholders who want to understand how to better meet the needs of students with mental health disabilities.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Foster Youth Success Initiative (FYSI) Liaisons Directory

Each of the CCCs has at least one FYSI Liaison to support students transitioning from foster care. This CCCCO webpage provides a listing of all FYSI Liaisons.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Guidelines for California Community College Homeless Youth Liaisons

This primer is designed to guide Homeless Youth Liaisons in their work. It also provides a starting point for faculty and staff to support students in California’s community colleges who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Information includes … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Healthy Transitions: Wellness Curricula for Youth Exiting Foster Care

This webinar provides an overview and orientation to the 12-hour basic curriculum, 9-hour supplemental curriculum, and ongoing peer to peer support group materials that comprise the curriculum, including youth workbooks, a youth resource guide, a trainer manual, and a peer … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Highlights from the Field: Developing a Psychological Services Intern Program at Your Community College

One promising solution for campuses that face internal or external challenges to meeting student mental health needs is a mental health intern program. Mental health intern programs are a viable and cost-effective strategy, and are increasingly used by community colleges.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness