Elevate Your Campus Mental Health Initiatives
The JED Campus Alumni program provides a continuum of premium services designed to build on your successful completion of JED Campus or JED Campus Fundamentals, helping you strengthen your student mental health safety net with the most current best practices. As the higher education landscape continues to evolve with growing mental health needs and new challenges, re-engaging with JED programming helps your campus community reach new goals and protect student emotional well-being. Not sure if you’re an alum? Check your institution’s status in the JED Campus Directory.
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Transform your campus mental health with our high-impact offerings.
Re-Engage in JED Campus or JED Campus Fundamentals
There has been a growing interest from schools to lean on JED for up-to-date guidance, mental health trainings, and the opportunity to re-assess policies and programs. Schools may be interested in rejoining the 4-year JED Campus program for assessment and implementation guidance.
The newly revamped JED Campus Fundamentals program for Alumni offers a 9 to 12 month engagement to:
- Guides your college/university in assessing your current student mental health safety net
- Provides your campus community with a real-time assessment of campus and student mental health services, programs, policies, protocols, and overall climate, including input from students
- Provides a gap analysis with recommended practices of how your campus community can more effectively protect student mental health and prevent suicide
Your campus will receive:
- Administration of the Healthy Minds Study (HMS)
- Administration of the JED Campus assessment
- A robust findings and recommendations report
- Access to JED’s Playbook, learning community, and list-serv
For more information about your JED Campus Alumni Offerings, please complete the form below.
Communities of Practice
• Postvention and Crisis Response Consulting: Equip your campus with thoughtful, proactive strategies for crisis response. Receive customized, compassionate guidance following campus tragedies to help your school community heal and reduce the risks associated with exposure to suicide prior to or in the aftermath of a tragedy.
• Expert Advising: Receive targeted consultation on policy updates, programming, and systems integration.
Professional Workshops and Trainings
- You Can Help a Student: This 90-minute workshop equips higher education staff with knowledge and skills to identify struggling students, engage in meaningful conversations about mental well-being, and connect students to care.
- Creating Communities of Care: This 60-, 90-, or 180-minute training explores methods for cultivating a profound sense of belonging and support, particularly for young people from communities facing persistent barriers to opportunities.
- It’s OK to Say Suicide: This 60- to 75-minute training for staff, students, parents, and caregivers explores common misconceptions about seeking help, discusses strategies to reduce access to lethal means, teaches how to recognize signs of suicide risk, and provides guidance on supporting someone in crisis.
- Championing Student Mental Health: This 120-minute workshop for higher education athletic department staff provides actionable tools for managing crises, supporting student-athletes through challenges, and promoting help-seeking behaviors while fostering a supportive team environment.
Complimentary Alumni Benefits
Your continued partnership also includes these valuable free resources:
- JED Campus Alumni badge: Download your badge and display your commitment to mental health.
- Moderated online alumni community: Network with fellow alumni, sharing questions and insights in a supportive space.
- Access to JED’s reference desk: Get tailored assistance from JED to help you find the right tools and resources from JED and other trusted organizations to meet your evolving needs.
- Quarterly professional learning webinars: Stay up to date on the latest developments in the field.
- Annual one-hour expert consultations: Access personalized consultation with a JED clinician through our Ask an Expert, Phone a Friend benefit.
- Limited-scope postvention support: Receive immediate support to equip you to take action during a crisis.
- JED Campus Playbook: Unlock evidence-based mental health articles, tools, and resources for student well-being support.