JED Partnership

In 2017, Columbia University established a partnership with the Jed Foundation (JED) to enhance student health and well-being efforts on campus.

Objectives

Consistent with JED's recommendations, working groups were formed for each of the 14 important areas of action, led by members of the JED Steering Committee and including faculty, students and professional staff from the University.

1

Ensure that emotional well-being is a campus-wide responsibility.
2

Teach students the skills necessary to cope with the stresses of college life, make wise lifestyle choices and be academically successful.
3

Implement sustainable programs that offer students the opportunity to build connections with others in their community.
4

Ensure incoming students with health histories are supported in their transition to college.
5

Provide robust screening opportunities at diverse touchpoints in the student experience.
6

Train campus community members to identify, reach out to and refer students who may be struggling.
7

Promote help-seeking behavior through de-stigmatization efforts and increased access to resource information.
8

Strengthen leave policies and protocols that best support students in distress.
9

Establish systems, protocols and processes in order to coordinate necessary care for students.
10

Ensure access to all necessary clinical care services.
11

Ensure substance use policies and protocols best support students.
12

Ensure an adequate and appropriate institutional response to student suicide, death or other emergency.
13

Ensure that protocols are established for the reporting of, and follow-up for, emergency situations.
14

Proactively minimize environmental risks for suicide.

Updates

October 10, 2018

Live Well | Learn Well – Undergraduate Well-Being at Columbia

May 2, 2018

Progress on well-being priorities

February 1, 2018