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Higher Ed Advisor: meeting student mental health needs in today’s environment

Aug 10, 2021

Welcome to Higher Ed Advisor, the Baker Tilly podcast series where we speak with higher education industry leaders about practical and proactive guidance to help colleges and universities protect and enhance their value.

The need for mental health services at colleges and universities is on the rise to provide support for both traditional and non-traditional students. This need, while not caused by COVID-19, has been intensified by the pandemic, and as a result, we are already seeing an increase in creative counseling and other services as institutions prepare to return to campus for the fall semester.

In this podcast, we discuss several proactive strategies to offer students mental health services:

Implementing a behavioral intervention team on campus
Developing health and wellness-related programming as preventative medicine to enhance student engagement
Offering services to improve students’ resiliency and health holistically
Leveraging technology platforms to capture data that supports students

Bottom line: higher education institutions should be prepared to meet the rising demand for student health and wellness services.

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David Capitano

As the firm’s higher education practice leader, Dave Capitano provides oversight to more than 200 team members serving over 400 colleges, universities, research institutions and higher education systems across the United States.