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THE COMMUNITY PARTNER EXPERIENCE

By incorporating the Road to Wellness framework and input from the

community partner experience, we are in the process of developing a series of

resources that are intended to promote a common understanding of student

wellness and promote some effective strategies in the context of student

placement. We have taken tremendous care to engage our community partners

and will first share some of the findings from our discussions with them.

Focus groups were administered to explore the perspectives of community

partners and college employees, intended to gather information regarding the

underlying reasons for their beliefs about student mental health and determine a

direction for the development of supports and resources. Great care was taken in

the focus groups to operationalize mental health and the various terms that were

used.

Immediately below is our first video for community partners, which is

intended to expand their understanding of student mental health and wellbeing.

Further resource development will continue throughout the Winter of 2019.

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