This interactive training helps Cornell faculty effectively recognize, respond to, and support distressed students. We’ll watch a realistic filmed scenario and discuss how to recognize and respond to signs of student distress at varying levels (concern, elevated, and emergency). We’ll also review key campus, local, and national mental health resources along with strategies for encouraging help-seeking behaviors. The training also covers when and how to ask directly about suicide and reinforces that doing so does not increase the risk of someone acting on suicidal thoughts.

Presenter: Jennifer Fee, Assistant Director of Curriculum and Training Development, Skorton Center for Health Initiatives