UBC is committed to enhancing mental health and wellbeing for all of our community members and supporting healthy and sustainable workplaces and learning environments. Promoting positive mental health and wellbeing is crucial to students’ academic success and engagement and to creating an outstanding work environment for our faculty and staff. Reducing mental health stigma, creating a supportive campus culture, and ensuring that faculty, staff and students have the resources to help them understand mental health issues, and improve resiliency and coping skills, are key to building positive mental health and to living, learning and working well. This health promotion approach to mental health is about more than providing services. It is about equipping our community with the skills they need to live well and improve their health by creating environments that support them.
Strategies
Targets were determined through extensive community engagement and inform actions in this wellbeing priority area. View the long-range description of success and why it matters here.
Targets
UBC Cares: Increase community members who feel mental health is a UBC priority by 2025*.
Indicators
Baseline and target established:
% students, staff & faculty reporting mental health is a UBC priority.
Targets
Mental Health Literacy: Community members have access to opportunities to develop mental health literacy:
- 10% increase for students across all indicators by 2025**
- 10% increase for staff & faculty across all indicators by 2025**
Indicators
Baseline and target established:
% students, staff, & faculty who report a knowledge of resources designed to support mental health.
% students, staff, & faculty who report an ability to manage stress successfully.
% student, staff, & faculty who feel the campus climate encourages free and open discussion about mental health.
Learn More
For more data, stories, and more, explore the sections below.
