Thank you for your interest in the Mental Health Summit. You can find recordings of the summit’s sessions lower on this page.
Planning for additional mental health resources and programming in 2022 has begun, and we would like to hear your thoughts.
If you could not attend the summit and would like to provide feedback, please share it with us. And if you attended the event and have follow-up ideas, let us know. You can choose a category to share your thoughts on a specific section.
Speaker: Kevin M. Guskiewicz, chancellor
Description: Carolina has had a historic commitment to mental health. We will discuss where we are today with national trends in mental health across the nation and on our campus. The data and findings from the summit will inform the University’s action in the future.
Speaker/Presenter: Samantha Meltzer-Brody, Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine
Description: During this session, we will hear directly from student leaders and representatives about students’ experiences. We will learn how students support each other and discuss how the University can continue to support them during their time at Carolina.
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Description: This section will include a discussion of the experiences that faculty and staff are having on campus this fall regarding mental health, well-being and resilience among students and themselves. Faculty experiences in the classroom and practical tools for responsive instruction will also be presented in addition to a discussion of the need for a persistent, prolonged commitment to mental health and well-being on campus.
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Description: For students, their university community is a critical part of their support network and safety net. JED works directly with colleges and universities representing millions of students to ensure systems, programs, and policies are in place to create a culture of caring that protects student mental health, builds life skills, and makes it more likely students will seek help and struggling students will be recognized, connected to mental health care and supported.
Presenter: Nance Roy, clinical director of the JED Foundation
Description: Parents and families serve as important partners in student success. Carolina Parents Council representatives and Carolina family members will share feedback regarding how we can continue to support their students and engage parents and families around this critical issue of student health and wellness.
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Description: Students at Carolina and across the country are in a heightened state of distress and in need of ready access to support and crisis services. Through the lens of the student experience and a vignette-based presentation, we will explore practical tips for intervention. This session will define the spectrum of crisis services available at Carolina and describe its ongoing evolution as we come together to face this challenge.
The questions we will address are: What are the ways that Carolina students present in crisis and how do we help them? What are the current crisis referral services at Carolina and how does one navigate this system?
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Description: The world around us is changing dramatically and we seek to provide wide-ranging resources to promote health and well-being and prevent mental illness, self-harm and suicide. The services we prioritized even five years ago may not be the same services we need today. This session will explore what formal health and wellness promotion resources and goals the University should consider for the future.
The question we will address is: What might a future-focused wellness promotion and suicide prevention plan look like for Carolina?
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Speaker: Kevin M. Guskiewicz, chancellor