In November of 2019, UW President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Mark Richards charged the Student Mental Health Task Force to develop recommendations to: “ …delineate the components, desired outcomes, and timeline for the creation of a unified student mental-health service on campus, formed by combining the current UW Counseling Center and the Mental Health Clinic at Hall Health Center.” (Read the full charge)
The executive sponsors of this effort are David Anderson, Executive Director for UW Health Sciences Administration, and Denzil Suite, UW Vice President for Student Life. The Task Force will leverage cross-disciplinary expertise and the extensive work and research that has been compiled on this topic to date, and will be seeking additional stakeholder input and participation throughout the process.
Report: Investing in Student Mental Health
In accordance with this charge, the Task Force produced a report in February of 2020 examining mental health care at UW and options for optimizing the University’s continuum of care. Follow the link below to read the full report.
Report: Investing in Student Mental Health
Community input
We welcome input from the UW community, and there are many ways to have your voice heard.
Take the survey
Take a brief survey to share your thoughts on how to optimize mental health support at UW.
Sign up to provide input
As we seek to gather information and perspectives throughout the process, we will periodically reach out to those who are interested to request input. If you would like us to include you on future requests for input, follow the link below to sign up.
Reach out to the Task Force directly
Members of the UW community are sharing documents, links, videos, and other resources with us. If you have information that you would like the Task Force to consider, please email wellbeing@uw.edu.
Here are some of the resources we have been asked to consider:
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unseen-and-unheard/201705/no-im-not-good
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBleNvzw8U
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e6QOb_FmGk
- https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/how-a-new-uw-teaching-hospital-might-help-washington-states-mental-health-crisis/
- https://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact
- http://make4all.org/uwexperience/
- https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/53926/items/1.0132754
