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Mental Health + Resilience

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.

    Frameworks and Strategies

    Wellbeing Strategic Framework Mental Health Targets and Indicators 

    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 

    % 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 about Targets & Indicators 

      Read the Wellbeing Strategic Framework 

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      Improving mental health and resiliency on our campuses is a collaborative effort and numerous departments and units are involved in building positive mental health for all. 

      • Sexual Assault Support Centre (AMS)
      • Student Development & Services: Health and Wellness (Vancouver)
      • Student Development & Services: Health and Wellness (Okanagan)
      • Sexual Violence Prevention and Response (SVPRO) Vancouver 
      • Sexual Violence Prevention and Response (SVPRO) Okanagan
      • Health Promotion & Education 
      • Thriving Faculty 
      • Thrive at UBC
      • The Wellness Centre
      • UBC HR Mental Health Resources
      • Wellness Peers

      Over the years, several strategic campus plans have been developed to guide policies and practices that support mental health and resiliency:

      • Early Alert: Identifying students facing difficulties 
      • Focus on People
      • Framework for Senate Consideration of Student Mental Health and Wellbeing
      • Student Mental Health Strategy

      Examples and Research

      Celebrating 10 Years of Thrive at UBC!

      How do we start a campus-wide conversation about mental health that everyone can be a part of? Through Thrive(ing). “We all have mental health… just...

      Wellbeing Scholars Call for Proposals

      UBC Wellbeing and the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program are pleased to announce funding support for five wellbeing projects for the summer 2020 UBC...

      Mysterious Barricades: Bringing together music and mental health

      Since 2016, Mysterious Barricades has helped raise awareness about mental health and supports and resources available for those who are in crisis...

      UBC professor hopes new walk-in mental health clinic will spark a trend

      A UBC professor has started a walk-in mental health clinic on the school's Kelowna campus. It is the first of its kind in the city. Lesley Lutes,...

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      We all have a hand in shaping campus environments that support health, wellbeing, and sustainability. By championing wellbeing, we can build stronger and more inclusive communities at UBC and beyond.

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