JED provides colleges and universities expert support, evidence-based best practices, and data-driven guidance to protect student mental health and prevent suicide. Through our JED Campus and JED Campus Fundamentals programs, we partner with you to assess your community’s needs, develop a customized strategic plan to build on existing strengths, and implement tools, strategies, and techniques that lead to measurable improvements in student mental health and a more connected community.
JED’s experts will respond rapidly, reliably, and compassionately to support campus communities after a suicide or other tragic event. JED also helps in proactively strengthening or preparing crisis response measures.
In these in-depth interactive sessions, faculty, staff, and students learn how to recognize, respond to, and safely support students and peers in distress. The training is free to all JED Campus schools.
JED offers a variety of workshops for professionals and nonprofessionals on how to support student mental health and create inclusive communities of care both on and off campus.
JED helps fraternities and sororities holistically support their members’ mental health through programs, resources, training, and campaigns.
In this 45-minute online course, undergraduates practice self-care strategies and learn how to recognize when they or their peers are in distress and get help. The training was designed by Everfi (now Vector Solutions) using evidence-based JED content.
Follow this step-by-step process for designing a plan to promote the mental health of all students and get help for students who are stressed, struggling, or distressed. From JED in collaboration with the Education Development Center, Inc., and part of the Campus Mental Health Action Planning program.
Learn how to respond to a student suicide or other traumatic event in a way that maximizes student safety and effective communication. From the Higher Education Mental Health Alliance (HEMHA), of which JED is a proud partner.
Learn how to support a community after a resident suicide with a compassionate, effective postvention response. From JED in partnership with the College Student Mental Wellness Advocacy Coalition and Hi, How Are You Project.
Find out how to help campus teams incorporate and support student well-being through their structure, scope, functions, and day-to-day operations. From the Higher Education Mental Health Alliance (HEMHA), of which JED is a proud partner.
Learn how to effectively and safely implement telemental health services when they are needed and make choices about when this approach makes sense. From the Higher Education Mental Health Alliance (HEMHA), of which JED is a proud partner.
If you or someone you know needs to talk to someone right now, text, call, or chat 988 for a free confidential conversation with a trained counselor 24/7.
You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741-741.
If this is a medical emergency or if there is immediate danger of harm, call 911 and explain that you need support for a mental health crisis.
