April 21, 2022 - Vision in Action No. 73
With the recognition that student mental health and wellness are critical to student success, the Board of Governor’s recently approved a resolution establishing Mental Health Action Week to strengthen trauma-informed care expertise across the system, improve our classroom climates and campus culture, remove structural barriers, and advocate for additional resources to meet the diverse mental health service needs of California community college students and employees. Please join us for the California Community Colleges’ upcoming Mental Health Action Week webinar series.
Monday, May 2 | Introduction to Mental Health
The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office invites you to the 2022 Mental Health Action Week virtual kick-off event. Join us in a discussion with systemwide leaders on current topics.
• 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
• Register Here
Tuesday, May 3 | Reap the Rewards by Creating a Self-Care Culture
Dr. Gloria Morrow will highlight the importance of self-care and downtime. She will guide the audience to develop a self-care and wellness vision plan, including three practical self-care strategies and how to get started. Self-care is for everyone.
• 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
• Register Here
Wednesday, May 4 | The Social Determinants of Educational Success: Centered in Mental Health
This webinar will introduce a framework of social determinants of educational success that highlights the three key social determinants that directly impact student success. A roadmap will be presented to embrace this paradigm shift by laying out strategies that identify key levers, maximize flexibility for local planning and decision-making, and create enabling conditions to support the re-envisioning of a student-centered support ecosystem.
• 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
• Register Here
Thursday, May 5 | Trauma Informed Care: An Essential Tool for Colleges
Most often, it is non-clinical staff and faculty that have regular and ongoing contact with students experiencing mental health conditions. Join Dr. Kristin Dempsey in this introductory discussion of trauma-informed approaches and practices. Audiences will learn strategies for engaging in trauma-informed approaches to support post-traumatic growth and resiliency. Gain knowledge on how to integrate trauma-informed principles and practices into the college culture.
• 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
• Register Here
REGISTRATION FEES
These training sessions are free to participants.
WHERE
Virtual
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Chancellors and Presidents, Chief Instructional Officers, Academic Senate Presidents, Chief Student Services Officers, faculty, students, and classified staff.
Mental health resources, including how to support students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds; suicide prevention; and how to build mental health support on your campus are available on the Mental Health Program Resources page.
System Guidance/News/Webinars
Black Student Success Week returns April 25-29, 2022. This year’s theme, A Vision for Black Student Success: Creating a New Landscape to Succeed, will put a spotlight on new approaches to ensure Black and African American student success at California community colleges as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Now in its third year, the Board of Governors is proud to once again support Black Student Success Week in hopes that we move beyond dialogue and put our words into action,” said Pam Haynes, California Community Colleges Board of Governors President. “The Black Hour is a time we all should put a pause on our current work and spotlight the ways in which we as a system can improve support for Black students, foster Black leadership at our colleges, diversify our faculty and staff ranks, and root out systemic barriers to Black student success.”
Black Student Success Week is organized in partnership with the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, A2MEND, Umoja Community Education Foundation, The Campaign for College Opportunity, The Education Trust-West, the Equity Avengers, The RP Group, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, the Community College League of California, the Foundation for California Community Colleges, and the Student Senate for California Community Colleges.
Black Student Success Week activities will be held virtually to include daily webinars from 12-1 p.m. and group discussion forums from 1:30-2:30 p.m., as well as a virtual advocacy day on Thursday, April 28.
Follow @cablackstudents on social media for more details as we get closer to this very important week of action.
Register here.
Registration is open for this year’s LGBTQ+ Summit on Wednesday and Thursday, May 4 and 5. This conference is a space for students, faculty, classified professionals and administrators.
The CCC LGBTQ+ Summit 2022 is an opportunity to collaborate with members of the California Community Colleges at all levels. We will learn from each other’s innovative and successful ideas that will transform campuses so that we better serve and affirm LGBTQ+ students.
Register here.
SAVE THE DATE: The Chancellor’s Office invites you to join the Webinar Series: Equitable Recovery in Action: Becoming Antiracist, Student Ready Institutions continuing on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
In this six-part series of webinars, the Chancellor’s Office will highlight ongoing efforts across the system to adopt, customize and scale equity-advancing strategies, tools and resources to facilitate systemic change and cultivate a more equitable, inclusive and transformative teaching and learning ecosystem.
Webinar dates:
May 18, 2022
June 15, 2022
July 20, 2022
August 17, 2022
Register here.
Student Supports
The California Youth Crisis line runs 24-hours a day, seven days a week: 800-843-5200. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides confidential assistance to anyone in crisis and their loved ones through a live chat and free 24-hour hotline at 800-273-8255. You can also text COURAGE to the Crisis Text Line at 741741.
Items of Interest
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