Trellis Foundation Postsecondary Mental Health & Wellbeing Learning Community
Here you’ll find tools, research, and other resources related to the Trellis Foundation Postsecondary Mental Health and Wellbeing Learning Community.
In this first brief in a four-part series, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute provides an introduction to the Trellis Foundation’s Postsecondary Mental Health and Wellbeing Learning Community, as well as a summary of learnings to date around service capacity constraints that campuses and regions are navigating in order to serve their students.
The third brief in this four-part series examines takeaways from each institution that can inform the wider field. Each learning is accompanied by a snapshot of the learning in action, demonstrating how the institutions leveraged these strategies to support postsecondary mental health and wellbeing in their own unique settings.
The Trellis Foundation, in partnership with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, supports a cohort of 10 grantees in the Foundation’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Learning Community. This directory provides details on the work at all 10 colleges and universities across Texas. Additional technical assistance is also provided by the JED Foundation, the Steve Fund and Active Minds.
From RAND and the University of Texas at Dallas and with support from Trellis Foundation, this report provides findings from a descriptive study of ten community colleges in Texas that are working to address student mental health at their institutions. They document the strategies and supports that those colleges have implemented to support student mental health and offer a set of recommendations for decisionmakers who are interested in addressing student mental health on community college campuses.