The Quadcast

Maryann Davis, Ph.D. is a professor of psychiatry at the UMass Chan Medical School and the Director of the Implementation Science & Practice Advances Research Center (iSPARC) and the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research (ACR). She discusses the challenges students with mental illness face in their journey towards a…

Dr. Zainab Okolo, a therapist, advocate, educator, and strategy officer for student success at the Lumina Foundation, joins the Quadcast today to discuss a host of student mental health policy issues, including new research from the Lumina Foundation and Gallup that identifies college students’ emotional stress as the main driver…

Guest host, Carson Domey, interviews his headmaster, Alex Zequeira, at Saint John’s High School in Shrewsbury, MA. Zequeira shares his observations on high school mental health from his years of coaching, teaching, and leading high school students — from social media, the collective trauma of the pandemic, and building resilience before…

Paula Swinford, MS, MHA, CHES, is the director of the Office for Health Promotion Strategy and a clinical instructor for family medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Swinford talks about what it takes to create a health-promoting campus – from assessing student needs to establishing…

In this week’s Quadcast, we speak to Dr. Tia Dole, the new Executive Director of the Steve Fund — the leading national organization dedicated to supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color. Dr. Dole spoke of her background as a clinician, her work at the…

The pandemic has led to increased demand for services at campus counseling centers as well as counseling staff turnover. Dr. Hotaling, the Director of the Eppler-Wolff Counseling Center at Union College and President of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), joins the Quadcast today to talk…

On today’s Quadcast, we interview Sofia B. Pertuz, PhD, SHRM-SCP, CPC, on how higher ed can work towards increasing sense of belonging for students of color and first-generation students and how the workforce can also invite these graduates to thrive at their own companies. Dr. Sofia B. Pertuz is a…

Young mental health advocate Carson Domey co-hosts the Quadcast to interview Massachusetts State Representative Jack Lewis on ongoing legislation to improve mental and behavioral health policies and funding. Representative Lewis discusses prioritizing social and emotional health education in K-12 school systems, adding crisis intervention hotlines to student IDs, and current state…

In today’s episode of the Quadcast, Dr. Carrie Landa, Boston University’s new Executive Director of Student Wellbeing, talks about factors that contribute to student wellness and strategic initiatives colleges and universities can engage in to increase social belonging. Landa’s expertise in psychology lends itself to teaching students resilience, such as…

In a new survey with Born This Way Foundation, we learn students’ perceptions and experiences with peer counseling, revealing its increasing value as a resource. Defined as “the process of confiding in trained peers (fellow students, not friends) for mental health support, peer counseling may help ease the mental health crisis…