Health & Wellness Resources

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Basic Needs Helping Students Enroll in CalFresh

A brief video with tips on how to enroll in the CalFresh program at your community college.

Source: California Community Colleges Health & Wellness

Basic Needs, Poverty, and Impact on Academic Success

Basic Needs, Poverty, and Impact on Academic Success describes new data from more than 40,000 California Community College students showing the scale and scope of basic needs challenges in the system. Available in English and Spanish.

Source: California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office

Basic Suicide Facts

Suicide hurts all of us-parents, children, siblings, friends, lovers and spouses. The loss for society is psychological, spiritual, and financial. Understanding suicide requires looking at all of the factors that underlie this complex and intensely emotional issue and applying logic … read more

Source: Harvard T.H. Chan

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Campus Mental Health: Know Your Rights!

A guide for students who want to seek help for mental illnesses or emotional distress.

Behavioral Intervention Team Q&A with the Jed Foundation

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

Source: The JED Foundation

Behind the Asterisk*: Perspectives on Young Adult Mental Health from “Small and Hard-to-Reach” Communities

Behind the Asterisk*: Perspectives on Young Adult Mental Health from “Small and Hard-to-Reach” Communities draws from the lived experiences of marginalized youth and young adults living in poverty. Their voices are the driving force behind our policy recommendations and serve … read more

Source: CLASP

Being Culturally and Trauma-Informed While Assisting Displaced Afghan Families

Offers providers guidance on being culturally- and trauma-informed while assisting displaced Afghan families. This tip sheet provides ways to build connection and trust, help maintain and strengthen family relationships, and align the work with child and family goals while using … read more

Source: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Beyond the ACE Score: Perspectives from the NCTSN on Child Trauma and Adversity Screening and Impact

Provides an overview of the concepts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and childhood trauma, highlights the gaps that remain in our understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adversity on mental and physical health, and describes how these terms … read more

Source: NCSTN

Beyond the Food Pantry: Faculty-Run Emergency Aid for Students

This guide provides information and resources for faculty at colleges and universities to set up and successfully run their own emergency aid programs, including information on the FAST Fund model as one successful example of how faculty-run programs work.

Source: Hope Lab

Beyond the Food Pantry: Spreading the Word – Supporting Students’ Basic Needs with a Syllabus Statement

The persistent underutilization of campus support services is a challenge facing institutions wishing to support students’ basic needs. Campus food pantries and emergency aid programs, for example, tend to serve only a small fraction of food-insecure students on campus. While … read more

Source: Hope Lab

Beyond the Food Pantry: Supporting Students with Access to SNAP

This brief, the first in the Beyond the Food Pantry series, explains how advocates can support students by increasing access to SNAP.

Source: Hope Lab

Beyond the Talk, Practicing the Walk: A Path to Bridge the Cultural Gap

Resource toolkit that outlines several best practices and tools to reduce disparities for African-Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Latinos, Native Americans, as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Questioning (LGBTQ) populations. The toolkit is the result of over 450 behavioral health professionals, … read more

Source: San Diego Behavioral Health Services

BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month: Navigating Stigma

BIPOC mental health

Bipolar Disorder

This page provides information about bipolar disorder, including signs and symptoms and ways to get help. ULifeline focuses on college mental health.

Source: ULifeline

Bridging the Gap: Connecting College Campuses to the Homelessness Response System

Each year the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development directs over $380 million to California to address homelessness via 38 local Continuums of Care (CoCs). CoCs coordinate local providers working to combat homelessness, yet there is too often a … read more

Source: John Burton Advocates for Youth

Building a College Student Health Services Program: The Pillars of Success

This 9-part video series highlights Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) Health Services and their eight “Pillars of Success” that contribute to a healthy, functioning, and effective student health services support program. The Pillars of Success form a framework that other … read more

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

Building a Sustainable Mental Health Referral Network and Successfully Referring Students to Care

This webinar describes a process that will assist campuses in finding accessible community mental health referral sources and developing a sustainable referral network and then shares evidence based practices for student referrals and linkage to care.

Source: CCC Health & Wellness

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

Recently released, the Collaboration Toolkit: California Community Colleges and California County Behavioral and Mental Health Departments is for county behavioral health and mental health departments and community colleges to develop sustainable partnerships

Building Trauma-Informed Connections via Telehealth During COVID-19

Pediatrician Dr. Dayna Long and family medicine physician Dr. Erika Roshanravan share the benefits of providing trauma-informed care via telehealth and practices that primary care and behavioral health providers can use to build and strengthen connections to patients and improve … read more

Source: ACEs Aware

Bulimia Nervosa: Signs, Symptoms, Treatment, and Self-Help

Overview explains bulimia signs and symptoms, causes and effects, recovery tips, and ways to get help.

Source: HelpGuide.org