Navigating the Mental Health Provider Shortage in Higher Education (2023)

Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, there has been a renewed focus on postsecondary mental health. A growing body of evidence draws explicit links between student mental health and their likelihood of entering and persisting through higher education, highlighting a truth that mental health professionals and postsecondary leaders deeply understand in the years following the pandemic: mental health is a basic need critical to student persistence and academic success. In response to this need, the Trellis Foundation launched the two-year Postsecondary Mental Health and Wellbeing Learning Community to support student mental health and academic success.

File Type: pdf
Categories: Practitioner Guide
Tags: mental health, Texas
Author: Meadows Mental Health Institute, Trellis Foundation