The university experience can be a very exciting time, and our community provides students with innumerable opportunities to learn, grow and thrive, inside and outside the classroom. At the same time, students face many demands and challenges as they pursue their academic, personal and professional goals. Student mental health and well-being is essential to student success.
In order to continuously strive for a welcoming, healthy, supportive and inclusive campus environment at Carleton, The Student Support Certificate has expanded to offer a grouping of workshops targeted toward enhancing knowledge, skills and strategies in supporting student mental health and well-being.
This grouping of workshop will form a concentration for the Student Support Certificate titled “Student Mental Health and Well-Being”.
Please note that any members of the Carleton community who are concerned about a student can submit a Care Report through Wellness Services.
How to add the Student Mental Health and Well-being Concentration
To add a concentration in Student Mental Health and Well-Being to your Student Support Certificate, you must simply complete three workshops from the list below:
- Supporting Students in Distress
- Building Student Resilience
- Stigma, Substances and Mental Health 101: An Educator’s Guide to Supporting Students
- LivingWorks Start
- safeTALK
- Supporting Student Well-being: Understanding the Care Report
If you have already completed your Student Support Certificate, you can attend workshops from the concentration to add this to your Certificate. Once you have completed the requirements of the concentration, you will be re-issued an updated Student Support Certificate with your new concentration included.
If you are currently working toward completing your Student Support Certificate, you must still adhere to the Certificate requirements in order to complete the program. To add the concentration, simply complete the additional workshops from this stream. Your certificate electives can be used towards the Student Mental Health and Well-Being concentration. For example, if you completed the Supporting Students in Distress workshop as one of your Certificate electives, it would also be counted as one of the four courses in your concentration.