This resource was done up as a short commentary with questions to help BC campuses reflect on usefulness of the Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey from a health promotion perspective.
This resource was designed to help campus members understand the risks that students may encounter at parties, on-campus or off, in order to help students mitigate their risk in a realistic and responsible way. We encourage you to use this...
This promising practice is an initiative offered by Simon Fraser University (SFU) to international undergraduate and graduate students. It relates SFU’s experience in providing community cooking workshops and offers suggestions on why and how other post-secondary institutions might host...
This guide includes seven examples of first-person accounts of culture shifts at Selkirk College, as part of the Dinner Basket Conversations initiative. Participants were invited to tell their stories of change until the “Most Significant Change Story” emerged to signify the value or...
Dinner Basket Conversations have been hosted on Selkirk College campuses for the past six years in an effort to gather information from students about substance use patterns and mental health challenges. These conversations have been observed to have a therapeutic effect on both...
Do2GetThru is a project at Camosun College in Victoria, BC, that explores the culture of substance use on campus. Since Camosun College is a commuter campus, the landscape around substance use is different from that of many other post-secondary institutions with on-campus student...
Selkirk College has been hosting innovative dinner basket conversations related to substance use. This promising practice tool will help you organize a dinner basket conversation with guiding questions for facilitators, a reflection sheet for participants, recipes, and more!
The Drink with Class initiative was inspired from Thompson Rivers University’s involvement in Changing the Culture of Substance Use (CCSU), a project under Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses in British Columbia (BC). At Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Drink with Class has become a...
This conceptual framework is drawn from Post-Secondary Student Mental Health: Guide to a Systemic Approach. The model illustrates the broad areas of a systemic approach to post-secondary mental health identified for strategy development across three target populations.
This video was collaboratively developed by the Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division (coordinating agency for Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses) and Simon Fraser University Health Promotion.
Launched in 2013, this video captures the momentum towards a “whole campus” approach...
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Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses is managed and coordinated on behalf of the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information by CMHA BC
Core funding for the initiative is provided by BC Mental Health and Substance
Use Services with additional support from the BC Ministry of Health
