JED Campus

Substance Misuse

• Implement a sustainable rapid screening and referral for alcohol misuse in primary care.
• Provide a safe drug collection program on the main campus. 

Support Social Connectedness

• Evaluate impact of new DSA First-Year Engagement initiatives, including the attempts to connect students identified as disconnected from engagement opportunities and evaluate the effectiveness of new AI features in Get Involved system focused on connecting students with student organizations based on interests and past engagement trends.

Reduce Access to Lethal Means

• Assess the feasibility of safe construction practices on campus that restrict access to lethal means through planning for installation of architectural barriers.

Life Skills

• Develop and implement a systematic approach to financial literacy education for students.
• Create a collaborative hosted website for student well-being.
• Evaluate impact of new DSA Student Life small group programming to connect students on topics of interest.

 Training

• Educate new faculty on how to support undergraduate and graduate student well-being.
• Launch the Texas A&M University System-wide virtual simulation training, providing staff and faculty tools to learn when to have conversations with students of concern, what to say, and how to assist with connecting them to the appropriate campus resources.

Strategic Communications

• Communicate resources for mental health and well-being consistently and accurately across academic and service settings.
• Advocate for including mental health and well-being in the Texas A&M University 2040 strategic plan.

Policy

• Complete involuntary withdrawal policy and review by key stakeholders and plan for implementation.

Substance Misuse

• Naloxone was made available on campus in health center, Aggie Recovery Community, and the University Police Department.
• University Health Services conducted a feasibility project for rapid screening and referral for alcohol misuse in primary care.

 Crisis Management

• The Campus Community Response Team was formally established to implement the newly created Postvention Protocol after a student death.

 Life Skills and Social Connections

• Aggie Peer Connect was created and launched in April to build community by fostering meaningful peer-to-peer connections and providing students with the resources and referrals they need to thrive.

Accessible training on how to support students and resources available to faculty and staff

• TrainTraq #2114841: “Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention Training For Texas A&M University Faculty and Staff,” was developed to address a gap in accessible education.
• Philanthropic gift from the WoodNext Foundation awarded to develop a TAMUS-wide virtual simulation training on how to support and communicate with students in distress. 

Clinical Services

• Implemented a new counseling scheduling model to increase access to first time appointments during peak demand.

Five task forces were convened to address strategic plan priorities. Task Force recommendations were reviewed by the Executive Steering Committee and priorities were identified:

• Life Skills Priority: Address a gap in evidence based and accessible and target financial literacy and education for students.
• Substance Misuse Priority: Explore creation of an executive leadership team to create a comprehensive and system based strategic plan for prevention, early detection, and support for alcohol and other drugs.
• Policy Priority: Develop an involuntary withdrawal policy to serve as a last-resort mechanism for situations where students of concern can no longer be safely supported through existing resources.
• Early Detection of Students at Risk Priority: Explore data integration from university sources to identify at risk students.
• Graduate and Professional Student Priority: Improve and consistently communicate messages from administrators and faculty training in support of graduate student mental health and well-being (ongoing).

Substance Misuse

• Aggie Recovery Community was established in Rudder Tower with resources, a peer community, and support for students who are in, or seeking recovery, from substance use disorder.

• The Jed Campus steering committee reviewed the HMS results. Highlights of the HMS findings are published on website hosted by the Student Affairs Planning Assessment and Research department.
• The steering committee received a Jed Campus feedback report outlining 31 suggested areas for enhancement and growth covering the eight domains of JED Campus.
• An on-campus visit with JED Campus staff took place with the Steering Committee to review the HMS student data and strategic plan recommendations.
• The Executive Steering Committee evaluated the strategic planning recommendations, and established priorities for 2025.

• The Jed Campus Steering Committee worked in partnership with various offices and departments to complete and submit a baseline assessment. The assessment measured systems, policies, and programs, which will be followed in year four by a post-assessment measuring the change achieved during the program.
• The Healthy Minds Study (HMS) was administered as a baseline assessment of students’ attitudes, behaviors, and awareness on well-being, mental health, and substance use issues. The HMS is repeated in year four as a post-assessment measuring impact of the Jed Campus System on change in student outcomes. A Faculty and Staff version of the HMS was administered per the Texas A&M University System request.

• Executive Steering Committee established to prepare for the launch of Jed Campus in Spring 2024.
• The Texas A&M University Institutional Review Board reviewed and designated the Healthy Minds Study (HMS) as exempt. The HMS is administered at baseline and again in year four of the Jed Campus program.

• Nancy Fahrenwald, PhD, RN, PHNA-BC, FAAN, Chair
  • Associate Vice President for University Health Services, Texas A&M University
• CJ Woods, PhD, Co-chair
  • Associate Vice President and Chief of Staff, Academic Affairs in the Office of the Provost, Texas A&M University
• Justin Jeffery, PhD, Co-chair
  • Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, Division of Student Affairs, Texas A&M University
• Alicia Dorsey, PhD
  • Associate Vice President for Academic Effectiveness and Planning, Texas A&M University
• Joe Hoff
  • Director of Recreational Sports, Texas A&M University at Galveston
• Katy Pleasant
  • Director of Business Planning, Strategy and Business Services, Texas A&M University
• Kala McCain
  • Assistant Vice President of Enterprise Communications and Governance, Marketing and Communications, Texas A&M University

• Melissa Bohnsack, Associate Director for Administrative Services, Office of the Provost, University Staff Council  
• Ryan Pittsinger, Assistant Athletics Director, Director of Counseling and Sport Psychology, Texas A&M Athletics
• Michelle Bettin, Senior Director of Counseling and Mental Health Care, University Health Services
• Kyce Hakki, Undergraduate Representative, Undergraduate Student
• Logan Murphy, Undergraduate Representative, Undergraduate Student
• Uyok Hanson, Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Research Assistant
• Brinda Kalra, Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Student
• Andy Barna, Director of Employee Relations, Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness
• Zienna Blackwell, Director of Prevention and Population Health, University Health Services
• Ben Montemayor, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health
• Maggie Guzman, Associate Director of Residence Life, Division of Student Affairs
• Heather Wilkinson, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Office of Faculty Affairs
• Laura Jakubik, Executive Coordinator, University Health Services