Creating a community of caring
The Campus Mental Health Strategy is a bold commitment to the importance of mental health and well-being of our university family.
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Educational resources
Share mental health resources with students, faculty and staff by incorporating statements, resources or slides into your presentations, outlines, and communications.
Webinars
Learn from experts and mental health advocates in our community on topics such as resiliency, mental health during COVID-19 and in teaching and learning.
Mindfulness exercises
Find eight mindfulness meditations to support your daily functioning including mindful eating, a body scan, and practicing 'doing nothing.'
Certificate
Become a mental health champion, build positive skills and resilience and help us create a community of caring, with the University of Calgary’s Mental Wellbeing and Resilience certificate.
Make time for your mental wellness
For Rumika Mascarenhas, dance helps her build resilience and balance during stressful times.
UCalgary Mindfulness podcast
Mindfulness is a meditation practice that can reduce stress and anxiety and improve attention and creativity, supporting our daily functioning. This debut season features eight meditations, released weekly, focused around Stepping Out of Reactivity.
Strategy progress
From reducing stigma on our campus to examining institutional policies through a mental health lens, explore what has happened since our Campus Mental Health Strategy's 2015 launch.
The City of Calgary's Mental Health and Addiction Strategy
The City of Calgary's Mental Health and Addictions Strategy
The City of Calgary recently passed Calgary's Mental Health and Addiction Strategy. Along with other stewards and community advocates, representatives from our UCalgary community brought research and applied knowledge of our own caring campus to the conversation.
Some of the focus areas like better coordination of services and improved information sharing are important to our own Campus Mental Health Strategy (CMHS). Check out the below initiatives for our own community, created to build better connection with local services and resources.
Community initiatives
After Hours Support
When Student Wellness Services offices are closed, callers are given the option to connect directly with a Woods Homes crisis counsellor or the Distress Centre. UCalgary students can access them directly or by calling Student Wellness Services 403-210-9355.
Mental Health Consultant
Operating within business hours (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), our mental health consultant offers a broad range of support for staff, faculty, and post-docs by connecting with mental health resources on and off campus. Access the consultant through Staff Wellness by calling 403-220-2918.
K-12 Transition
UCalgary works with other Calgary post secondary institutions to connect with the K-12 system to better support student transitions into postsecondary life. Some of this work includes working with local school boards to understand the needs of transitioning students and to develop resources to better support that transition.
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