Health & Wellness Resources

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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 Center Toolkit

Basic needs insecurity directly impacts a student’s ability to succeed in college. Basic needs services are part of the non-academic supports that contribute to the third pillar of the colleges’ Guided Pathways, Help students stay on their path (Chancellor’s Office, … read more

Source: CA Community College Chancellor's Office

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

Brief Crisis Interventions

This webinar explores the brief crisis intervention model, which provides immediate response and short-term support to help students remain in school. Benefits to participants include direction and guidance on how to conduct brief crisis interventions.

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 College Mental Health Screening Tools

There is substantial evidence that shows that good mental health is a key variable in predicting academic success. Yet budgets on many CCC campuses have tightened, and there are few additional resources for mental health. One strategy is to screen … 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

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 and Socially Distanced Suicide Prevention: Safety Planning and Other Resources in Pandemic Times

Dr. Heliana Ramirez discusses evidence-based strategies for suicide prevention, safety planning under social distancing orders, and the distinct factors related to suicidal crises among diverse populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. This session pays particular attention to social determinants of health … read more

Source: MHTTC

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

Feedback Forms for Your Mental Health Events

Are you delivering trainings using your college’s Mental Health Support Allocation funds? The Chancellor’s Office developed a set of optional tools that you can use to gather participant feedback. You can adopt, adapt, or customize these tools for your use: … 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

HIPAA/FERPA Archived Training Video

An overview of how HIPAA and FERPA differ and interrelate, with an emphasis on enforcement and key risk areas for community colleges.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Identifying and Referring At-Risk Students

In partnership with the University of California, Office of the President (UCOP), and Riverside Community College District, CCC SMHP has tailored five PSAs to focus on the mental health needs of CCC students. This PSA is intended to help faculty … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness