When You Are Concerned for a Student's Mental Health √ §
What to do, resources available, & supportive class design.
Location
Online
Date & Time
March 24, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Students are reporting record levels of stress at college campuses across the US. Depression and anxiety increased dramatically during the COVID 19 epidemic among young people, as did emergency room visits for psychiatric issues. Certain groups of students may be particularly vulnerable, especially students with minoritized identities. Students at UMBC echo these general trends. What should faculty do when a student reports or appears to be having a mental health crisis? What resources are available to refer students to? How can we design course, lab, and classroom environments to support students' mental health?
These are a few of the questions we'll take up in this interactive session, co-sponsored by the FDC and Dr. Rae Chresfield, Assistant Vice President for Health and Wellbeing in Student Affairs.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
These are a few of the questions we'll take up in this interactive session, co-sponsored by the FDC and Dr. Rae Chresfield, Assistant Vice President for Health and Wellbeing in Student Affairs.
Please note only the overview of the material will be recorded. The discussion will not be recorded to create a space to share.
There will be two sessions, Monday, March 24 Online via WebEx and Wednesday, March 26 in person. Please register for ONE session only. Only one session can count toward the ALIT or INNOVATE Certificate programs.
Please click “Going Virtually” below to reserve your seat for this
session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx
link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour
before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register.
Please email fdc@umbc.edu
if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can
no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may
attend.
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Part of the FDC Diverse Classroom Series
Launched in February 2017!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
Launched in February 2017!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
- How can you learn about your classroom audience to better connect with your students and reflect on their learning needs?
- How can you make your classroom more hospitable for all learners?
- How can you handle sensitive discussions in your classroom?
- How can you ensure that students from different academic and social backgrounds and with different physical and cognitive abilities experience classrooms where they are welcomed, challenged, and supported?
- aspire to make their classrooms more inclusive of our diverse student population.
