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.