1. Title: Mental Health Awareness:
Nait’s Response
Session ID: 803
Room: Suite 101
Presenter (s): Krista Pierce, Lara
McClelland, Terri Flanagan,
Institution: NAIT
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2. Mental Health
Awareness: NAIT’s
Response

3. Presentation Overview
• NAIT
• Drivers for a dedicated focus on Mental
Health
• Initial actions
• Current environment: three pillars
• Next steps
• Question

4. NAIT
• Polytechnic institution
• Alberta's 3rd largest post secondary
• Canada's largest apprenticeship trainer
• 27,000 credit students
• 30,000 non-credit students
• >3,000 faculty and staff
• >140 credit programs

5. Setting the Direction
• NAIT 2021
– Vision
– Values
– Promises
• Evidence-driven decision-making

6. Opportunities and Challenges
• Skills agenda
• >1,700 full-time students increase in 3
years
• >50% growth by 2021
• Disparity of campus
• Diversity of student body
• Strong (and getting stronger) economy

7. Promise to Staff and to
Students
• Staff: outstanding place to work; culture of
how we work together; our values
• Students: support students mental,
Emotional and physical well being; career
and lifelong success; employment in
chosen field; skills for immediate impact
• Interdependence of staff and student

8. Drivers for Mental Health
Services
• Increasing counsellor and crisis visits
• Increased entrance requirements
• Instructional model shifts
• Industry-drive paradigm
• Student's Association
– 55% feel stress
– 49% feel overwhelmed

9. Mental Health Building Blocks
• Grassroots initiatives
• Terms of Reference
– Executive sponsor
• Student services
– Counseling services
• Narrowing the scope

10. Post-Secondary Student Mental Health: Guide to a Systemic Approach
•Mental Health Action Planning
• Building Momentum and Infrastructure
– Obtain senior administrator support
– Engage key stakeholders in a mental health and suicide
prevention task force
– Build capacity of individuals, systems, and organizations to
plan, implement, and evaluate program activities
• Engaging in a Strategic Planning Process
– Describe the problem and its context
– Identify priority problems and set long-range goals
– Consult the science to identify strategies
and interventions
– Select or develop interventions
– Develop an evaluation plan
– Create an action plan
– Implement interventions, evaluate, make improvements

11. Staging Success
•On campus services
•Three pillars
–Prevention of harm
–Promotion of health
–Resolution of incidents

12. 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013 TOTALS
Monthly Totals 1081 993 1434 914
Total Personal Issues 58% 65% 64% 61%
Total Academic Issues 42% 35% 36% 39%
New Clients 392 442 557 384 1775
Services for Students with Disabilities
Appointments 288 243 531
Apprentices 187 398 220 805
Crisis Appts. 65 95 118 142 420
No Shows 103 104 116 95 418
Cancellation 156 145 211 50 562
School Utilization
Business 147 149 210 119 625
Health Sciences 95 149 172 99 515
Info. Comm. & Eng. 226 324 401 278 1229
Sus. Bldg. & Environ. 168 133 121 85 507
Trades 148 83 306 108 645
Undergrad. Studies 0 0 18 12 30
Cont. Ed./EAL 180 171 194 160 705
Total 964 1009 1422 861 4256
Statistics

13. NAIT's Three Pillars
• Prevention of harm
• Promotion of health
• Resolution of incidents

14. De-Stressing
http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=314951

15. Questions

16. Contact Information
• Krista - kpierce@nait.ca
• Lara - laram@nait.ca
• Terri - terrif@nait.ca

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