College programs, presentations and reasonable accommodations.
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The Chancellor’s Office is committed to helping reduce the gaps in mental health services for California Community College (CCC) students by improving statewide support, technical assistance and coordination between the Chancellor’s Office, the CCCs, the Department of Mental Health and external stakeholders. In collaboration with the California Department of Mental Health (DMH), the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges has received funding to assist in addressing the increasing student mental health issues at the community colleges. This support comes from the Mental Health Services Act (also known as Proposition 63) activities that are based on the development and approval of a Memorandum of Understanding between the CCCCO and DMH.
This fully accessible report, presented by the National Council on Disability, reports on “the culmination of a study conducted to determine the current challenges facing college students with mental health disabilities on campus and to provide practical, targeted recommendations to resolve them. Report findings highlight laws, policies, and procedures that pose substantial challenges to the academic success of college students with mental health disabilities.”
This tool is available from the Veterans Administration website and is an excellent resource for veterans and others diagnosed with PTSD. Together with professional medical treatment, this resource can help students understand and cope with what they are experiencing with their disability.
This resource provides support for teens and young adults dealing with mental health concerns, including suicide. It also provides support for those serving teens and young adults.
This resource provides support from a mental health law perspective, and seeks to preserve the rights of those with mental health disabilities.
This resource provides information and support for people with mental illness and for those serving them, including services, statistics, and an overview of mental illness and signs to look for.
Using a convenient FAQ format, this resource provides a thorough overview for serving students with mental health disabilities by the leading national organization for serving students with disabilities.
SAMHSA provides numerous resources related to behavioral health, including an extensive collection of free downloadable publications for consumers and providers. Publications are indexed by Issues, Conditions and Disorders; Sutstances; and Treadment, Prevention, and Recovery. The program falls under the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
This resource, produced by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, provides an archive of documents addressing vocational recovery.
This resource, created by Boston University, addresses accommodations for students and others with mental health disabilities in the areas of school and workforce. Resources are organized in a manner to address issues from the employer and/or educator perspective, and from the student perspective.
This document, published by the National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (NaBITA), was announced via press release on March 6, 2019. For additional information you can visit the NaBITA website.
From the JED Foundation, this framework for developing protocols is highly recommended for colleges developing institutional protocols for students with related mental health issues.
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This eight-page accessible document provides an overview of California Community Colleges’ DSPS students with disabilities, with specific emphasis on how to serve those DSPS students with mental health disabilities. This accessible fact sheet is published by the Chancellor’s Office Student Mental Health Program, dated 2017.
Title 5 Regulation and Implementing Guidelines for 56042 Mental Health Disability (2015). Accessible 11.19.2016.