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2016-2023

Mental and Behavioral Health

MCFeed excerpt from 8/03 – 8/09-2022 Newsletter

Associate Director Dana Humphrey and youth mental health advocate Carson Domey interview Joseph Sexton, a senior at Vanderbilt University who was recently awarded the Jed Foundation’s Student Mental Health Voice Award. Joseph describes how he started an organization at Vanderbilt focused on building a movement around critical psychiatry and improving…

MCFeed 2022
08/10/2022
Mental and Behavioral Health

MCFeed excerpt from 9/29 – 10/05- Newsletter

Diverse Education reports on the revamping of higher education’s mental health policies, amidst students feeling affected from the last two years as they return to in-person classrooms. Diana Cusumano, director of the JED Foundation’s campus and wellness initiatives, says, “I keep going back to [the idea] that school administrators need…

MCFeed
10/06/2021
Mental and Behavioral Health

MCFeed excerpt from 4/21 – 4/27- Newsletter

The American Council on Education, in partnership with the Mary Christie Institute and the Jed Foundation, is hosting a workshop called Lessons from Community Colleges on Improving Student Mental Health on May 4th and 18th. The workshop, intended for all college and university leaders, draws of best and promising practices…

MCFeed
04/28/2021
Mental and Behavioral Health

The Jed Foundation to Launch Program for High Schools

For the last 20 years, the Jed Foundation (JED) has helped hundreds of colleges and universities strengthen their approaches to protecting their students’ emotional and behavioral health. They will soon offer similar support for high schools in a move that reflects both the importance and the need to address emotional…

MCQ. Issue 17
04/09/2020
Mental and Behavioral Health

Help Along the Way

How mental health partners are supporting students and colleges Ensuring the healthy development of teens and young adults is more important than ever. Economic, environmental and technological changes have altered the world in a relatively short time, bringing a host of new challenges to our next generation of leaders. Over…

MCQ. Issue 9
04/06/2018
Mental and Behavioral Health, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Equity in Mental Health Framework Launches

The Steve Fund and the Jed Foundation co-created the unprecedented recommendations for students of color As diversity and inclusion continue to top higher education priority lists, there is now a framework for colleges and universities to better support the mental health and well-being of students of color. Co-created by the…

MCQ. Issue 8
12/21/2017
Phil Satow headshot
Mental and Behavioral Health

Q&A: Phillip Satow

The Jed Foundation founder proves that good things can happen when bad things happen to good people   In talking with Phillip Satow, it quickly becomes clear why the non-profit organization he founded in memory of his son has become the leading voice for suicide prevention on college campuses.  Contemplative…

MCQ. Issue 3
09/09/2016
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