Mission: To provide leadership through a partnership of organizations to advance college student mental health
Purpose: HEMHA affirms that the issue of college student mental health is central to student success, and therefore is the responsibility of higher education. Accordingly, HEMHA will provide leadership to:
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- Consider college student mental health issues at a strategic level
- Identify and share mental health resources
- Promote full community engagement in the mental health continuum of care
- Advocate for improvements in college student mental health
- Develop and disseminate resources and guides
- Endorse evidence-based best practices
Through focus on advocacy actions, policy development and review, practice dissemination, and the promotion of research – across the mental health continuum – HEMHA is committed to advancing mental health throughout the realm of higher education and improving student recruitment, retention and learning outcomes.