“The JED Foundation is a truly outstanding organization, which has at its core the desire to positively impact mental health and overall wellness on college campuses,” says Brett Perozzi, vice president of student affairs.
During the four-year collaboration, SLCC was brought even closer as a campus community to develop the systems, policies and supports now in place and not depend only on the Center for Health and Counseling (CHC) to support students mental and physical health. The JED Campus collaboration is in its fourth and final year, but everything created during the partnership stays at SLCC.
Currently, SLCC provides students with support and additional resources to ensure they succeed academically, professionally and personally. “This great partnership with the JED Foundation allowed the CHC and SLCC as a whole to learn from nationwide initiatives that help us create a strategic plan on prioritizing our work and initiatives surrounding the health and well-being of our campus community,” says DaSheek Akwenye, director of the CHC.
“The way SLCC has embraced and operationalized the JED Campus Initiative as a cross-functional team is exactly how colleges should be supporting our faculty, staff and students with our mental well-being,” says Brett.
SLCC JED Campus task force is actively working on implementing more initiatives as well as strategies that will allow the college community to collectively work together to support on-going campus wide mental health efforts.
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