The University of Michigan has joined JED Campus in support of student well-being and mental health.

The program is a nationwide initiative of The Jed Foundation (JED) designed to help schools evaluate and strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems to ensure that schools have the strongest possible mental health safety nets. There are currently over 400 campuses engaged in the JED Campus program.

This is a multi-year initiative that not only assesses and enhances work already underway but also helps create positive, lasting, systemic change in the campus community.

JED provides assessment tools, expert guidance, and customized technical assistance to support the implementation of recommended practices.

U-M JED Campus 1-page overview (PDF).

Accomplishments

Since the fall of 2024, we have accomplished the following recommendations from the JED strategic plan.

• U-M JED co-leads presented our strategic plan and administered a stakeholder survey to gather feedback on high-priority domain recommendations. Received approximately 100 responses.
• Sent a direct message to incoming undergraduate students who self-identified with mental health and/or substance use history about services and resources on campus prior to their arrival through our Community Matters online courses.
  • Planning to add similar messaging to new incoming graduate students in fall 2025.
• Educated families of incoming students on mental health and substance use resources and services on campus through Key Conversations presentation during summer/fall 2024 orientation.
  • Will be introducing a stand-alone Health & Wellness session for all families during summer/fall 2025 orientation.
• We publicly provided and publicized screening tools for depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders on the counseling and Well-being Collective websites.
• We developed, expanded, or strengthened mental health training programs for relevant campus faculty and staff in identifying, reaching out to, and referring students who may be struggling with the release of a new CRLT course in February 2025 – An Instructor’s Guide to Promoting Student Mental Health and Well-Being, designed by the CRLT Theatre Program in collaboration with the Center for Academic Innovation and the Well-being Collective.
• Refined a protocol for reporting students of concern with the Dean of Students Office’s creation of the Red Folder in January 2025.
• We established a system for coordination of care for shared patients between relevant campus service providers by integrating electronic health records between UHS and CAPS (collectively rebranded into UHC).
• We offered clinical services outside of typical business hours through our partnership with UWill.
• We cross reference/link the counseling center, health service, and health education websites – this is done on each individual site, but also holistically on the Well-being Collective website, specifically the Mental Health Continuum of Care page.
• Postvention efforts are highlighted in this Daily article, ‘There’s no one-size-fits-all approach’: Inside U-M’s Crisis Response Team

JED Campus 4-year Plan

We are currently in the Implementation phase.

Want to get involved?

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