{"id":5246,"date":"2023-07-15T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/leadership\/a-new-mental-health-resource-for-college-students\/"},"modified":"2023-07-15T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T11:09:12","slug":"a-new-mental-health-resource-for-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=5246","title":{"rendered":"A New Mental Health Resource For College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new emotional support and resilience building program for college students is scaling up at institutions across the nation, offering a new resource to campuses that continue to struggle serving the large number of students experiencing mental health concerns.<\/p>\n

RADical Health is a four-week class that helps equip college students with coping strategies they can use before reaching a crisis point that might require intervention by a professional. The curriculum stresses skills like mindfulness, active listening and communication, self-care, decision making, and time management.<\/p>\n

The program was developed by the RADical Hope Foundation, which was founded by Pam and Phil Martin in honor of their son, Chris, who died by suicide in the Fall of 2017. \u201cOur mission is to break the grip of emotional isolation that is killing our young people. We do this by expanding and delivering measurable, science-based programs that fill critical gaps and equip America\u2019s youth with the skills they need to thrive,\u201d said Pam Martin.<\/p>\n

The RADical Health curriculum was designed in 2020 in partnership with New York University and in consultation with numerous behavioral health experts to ensure that it was well-grounded in empirical research. And it\u2019s also based on what the developers heard from talking to hundreds of students across the country to learn directly about their greatest stressors and the skills they needed to help cope with emotional crises.<\/p>\n

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RADical Health will be in place at more than 30 colleges and universities across the nation this fall, including Amherst College, Fairfield University, Delaware State University, Drew University, Emmanuel College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, New York University, Pace University, Prairie View A&M University, the University of Akron, and Wesleyan University. More than a third of the partners will be HBCU\u2019s (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) or HSIs (Hispanic Serving Institutions).<\/p>\n

The classes (you can see an example that was recently featured on NBC TODAY) are led typically by peer guides, although in a few cases faculty serves as the leaders, covering the following sequence of topics:<\/p>\n