Healthy Minds/Healthy Campuses

A community of practice to promote campus mental health

Healthy Minds/Healthy Campuses aims to improve overall mental health, reduce suicidal behaviour and reduce student substance use harms among students on BC campuses. The project uses a Community of Practice approach to share and generate knowledge and promising practices. The community engages a broad cross-section of stakeholders at BC post-secondary institutions—from students to service providers to faculty and administrators—with a common goal of improving system responses. Healthy Minds/Healthy Campuses has established partnerships with 23 post secondary institutions in BC and over 27 other agencies or groups associated with this work.

Priorities

The overall goal of the Healthy Minds/Healthy Campuses project is to support students' mental health and reduce risky substance use. It does this through:

• Staging a provincial conference to showcase leading edge practices for supporting student mental health and promoting healthy substance
• Engaging campus administration in addressing mental health and substance use problems on campus at a systems level
• Exploring opportunities for maximizing student voice and involvement in campus mental health promotion activities.
• Maintaining an online space for campus community members to share initiatives and strategies used in the campus context
• Supporting a Community of Practice approach to the support of mental health and promotion of healthier substance use on campus

For more information about the Healthy Minds/Healthy Campuses project, visit the project website at www.healthycampuses.ca

The lead partners for Healthy Minds/Healthy Campuses are CMHA BC and the Centre for Addictions Research of BC. Healthy Minds/Healthy Campuses is managed and coordinated on behalf of the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information by CMHA BC.