Faculty and staff members play an important role when students reach out for support for mental health and wellbeing concerns. Thus, resources to help faculty and staff effectively support students are critical.
Mental Health and Wellbeing: Assisting Students in Distress is a reference tool that has been developed to help meet this need. This tool outlines decision-making steps, strategies, and resources to provide support to students facing difficulties that put their personal and academic success at risk.
This reference tool is available online, as printable “green” or “blue” folders:
- UBC Vancouver: download the green folder
- UBC Okanagan: download the blue folder
UBC Vancouver’s green folder also includes a new two-page insert, Sexual Assault: Assisting Student Survivors, which has been developed as an additional resource to aid faculty and staff in responding to a specific case of distress: when a student has been sexually assaulted and has chosen to disclose the incident.
UBC Okanagan is developing a similar insert on assisting student survivors. Once it is ready, it will be available online, as part of the blue folder download.
For additional information on supporting students who reach out with mental health or wellbeing concerns, please visit the Assisting students in distress page on facultystaff.students.ubc.ca.
To learn more about the ways in which UBC is responding to sexual assault, supporting survivors, and working to change campus culture through educational programming, please visit the following pages: