YOU at College

01/01/2024

The YOU at College team wishes you all a very Happy New Year! We're excited to forge new partnerships to ensure every student, faculty, and staff member is able to support their mental health, well-being, and success in 2024. We look forward to connecting with you! 🎉

Explore our work: https://youatcollege.com/

12/22/2023

As we enter the time of year where the computers turn off, the out of offices turn on, and our collective attention turns away from campus life, the YOU at College team would like to thank all of our wonderful partners in higher education for a great year supporting well-being. It is our sincere hope that we are all able to pause and reflect on all we have accomplished together in 2023.

Knowing that the holiday season impacts everyone differently, we created a Holiday Well-Being Tips guide as a gift to help those in our network harness well-being this season. Click below to explore tips around how to avoid the holiday blues, how to prioritize comfort and joy, and how set yourself up for success in the new year.

We look forward to continuing our work supporting student, faculty, and staff well-being in the new year. Happy holidays!

🎁 Explore Our Holiday Well-Being Tips: https://www.youatcollege.com/tips

12/14/2023

The holiday season brings a range of emotions from the moody blues, to cozy comfort, to jolly hopefulness. No matter where you land on that spectrum, it’s important to find ways to prioritize your and . To help, our team built a holiday tips website filled with helpful tips and tricks to empower your wellness journey this holiday season.

Check out the above advice on how to bust burnout this season, and head to the link in our bio for more helpful holiday tips. ❄️🛷

11/30/2023

⚡️ Introducing: New Campus Referral Links in the YOU Platform

A new enhancement to the YOU for Students platform is helping campuses increase awareness and access to vital support services, while breaking down barriers to help-seeking for every student, faculty, or staff member. Through our new "Featured At Your Institution" component in the main site navigation, campuses are able to promote direct access to three specific campus resources such as counseling, peer-to-peer support, coaching, advising, and more, increasing YOU's utility as a digital front door for campus support and engagement.

Click below to connect with our team to learn more about the effectiveness of our campus referral links at other institutions and to discuss bringing YOU to your campus today!

Schedule A Demo: https://youatcollege.com/schedule-a-demo/

11/21/2023

It's no secret that there are numerous benefits to practicing . Studies show that a single act of thoughtful can produce an immediate increase in feelings of happiness and a reduction in depressive symptoms. This week is the perfect time to reflect on the many things you're grateful for and to extend that gratitude to others.

To help, our team created a Gratitude Generator to encourage those in our network to pause, reflect, and reverberate gratitude to their communities. Click below to by exploring the tool and harness the positive benefits of gratitude during this holiday week!

🍁 Explore our Gratitude Generator: https://www.youatcollege.com/gratitude

11/06/2023

We’re having a great time at this year’s in Las Vegas! 🎰

It’s always wonderful to connect with so many colleagues and campus leaders on how to best support students and student affairs professionals.

If you’re at the show, be sure to stop by our booth to say hello, snag a pair of shades 😎, and connect with our team about our work comprehensively supporting student well-being and success!

11/03/2023

🃏Deal us in! The YOU at College team is headed to Las Vegas this weekend for NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education's 2023 Western Regional Conference. From Saturday, November 4th through Monday, November 6th, we will be collaborating with student affairs professionals on how our solutions can best support students, faculty, and staff in .

See below for details about our three speaking opportunities and be sure to mark them on your calendars in the NASPA app. If you're at the show, stop on by our booth for a friendly hello and to discuss our innovative approach to supporting students with Mia Trentadue, MPH, Paige Beaufort, and Trip Starkey.

Click below for more information. We look forward to seeing you there!

https://youatcollege.com/resources/events-and-webinars/naspa-western-regional-conference-2023/

10/25/2023

When we hear the term agnostic, we typically hear it in the context of an individual’s religious or political views, denoting someone who is noncommittal or undogmatic in their thinking. However, in a broad sense, agnosticism’s untethered nature applies to other areas, as well. More specifically, agnosticism is a term that has recently been associated with technology and digital tools.

By definition, when applied to software or hardware, the term agnostic means that a specific digital tool or technology is designed to be compatible with different devices or operating systems. While there is a lot of innovative work being done to make agnostic technologies that can interact with a wide number of digital systems, our team has done our own work to create unique technologies that are agnostic in another way: building digital mental health and well-being platforms for higher education that are resource agnostic.

What, you might ask, does that mean? Click the link in our bio to find out the answer, and to learn why that's a good thing for supporting students in with their , , and .

https://youatcollege.com/resources/what-resource-agnostic-means-and-why-it-matters/

10/19/2023

October is National Depression and Mental Health Screening Month. Mental health screenings are important part of raising awareness around how depression and mental health impacts a student's success during school. Understanding that mental health impacts everyone differently, it is important to provide equitable access to comprehensive tools to help students better understand the things they're dealing with on a daily basis.

A key component of the YOU platform is providing students with 24/7 access to free, confidential, and anonymous Self-Checks designed to help them engage with user-friendly assessments around mental health, physical health, belonging, basic needs, academics, and much more. Our self-checks leverage science-backed best practices to ensure students accurately understand areas they're excelling in and areas that might need improvement, while also connecting them directly to curated resources related to those topic areas both on campus and online.

To learn more about how our comprehensive self-check assessments can support students at your institution, visit YOUatCollege.com and connect with our team today!

10/18/2023

Staying up-to-date and informed on the world's happenings during a 24-hour news cycle can be difficult. While we know that staying informed is a critical part of belonging to (and supporting) our communities, staying fully engaged can also negatively impact our mental health – especially in moments of crisis.

For this week's , we offer some understanding around the importance of engaging with the news cycle in crisis situations, as well as some strategies for ensuring we stay informed while protecting our mental health. Click below to read more! ⤵️

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/well-being-wednesday-how-stay-informed-while-protecting/

10/05/2023

Do your students have the right tools to regularly check-in with themselves mentally, emotionally, and physically?

The YOU platform is designed to help students better understand how they're doing with their mental health and well-being, as well as connect them to resources that can help them better prioritize all of their other needs during school related to academics, basic needs, career success, campus life, identity-specific care, social connection, and more.

Check out a recent poll from our student network below to see what students are saying about how they're engaging with themselves during the semester. Connect with us to learn more about how YOU for Students provides a comprehensive library of tools resources, peer stories, and self-paced learning to support every aspect of the student experience.

The best college experience starts with YOU. Visit YOUatCollege.com to learn more.

10/03/2023

Interested in learning about how YOU can level up 📈 your student support?

Check out the video below to explore how the YOU platform is delivering mental health, well-being, and student success impact at over 200 institutions. Our innovative and comprehensive approach led one student to say, "The YOU platform is the best online learning tool I have ever used."

Click below to learn more!

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YOU at College - A student well-being portal with tools, content and resources built to match the heartbeat of student life.

09/28/2023

Research shows that nearly 1/3 of college students lack confidence in navigating to the right support services during crisis. Through our student-centered research and design, we came to learn that crisis comes in many shapes and sizes, and accessing the right support is often difficult for students. To address this, we built a tool called HelpCompass to provide students with a trusted campus tool that streamlines access to support in their moments of need.

Through a 24/7, free, and anonymous digital experience, HelpCompass seamlessly refers students to the right care for their circumstances in a few simple clicks, increasing student awareness and confidence in engaging with support resources during a crisis situation.

Interested in learning more? Visit YOUatCollege.com to schedule a demo with our team today!

09/22/2023

Here's a Friday reminder: college students are balancing a lot. From academics, to friendships, to the transition to school, to personal health, and everything else that comes with the college experience. The YOU platform is designed to support students at every step in their college journey to ensure they succeed, thrive, and matter.

If you're looking to ensure every student on your campus is covered with comprehensive, personalized, upstream care, visit YOUatCollege.com to learn more about our approach or reach out to inquiries@gritdigitalhealth.com!

09/19/2023

Did someone say interactive content?

The YOU platform remains focused on moving the needle to drive positive behavior change in students. To help, we just launched our🆕De-Stressing 101 interactive, self-paced educational course designed to empower students to address the ever-relevant topic of stress management.

Using a model of Learn, Think, Do, our new interactive content helps students:

• Learn about the concepts of positive and negative stress, as well as how they impact one's well-being.
• Engage with science-backed activities to reframe how one thinks about stress.
• Build a personalized toolkit of curated stress management resources to take action when dealing with stress.

If you're interested in learning more about how this interactive approach to well-being support can help your students, visit youatcollege.com or connect with our team at inquiries@gritdigitalhealth.com.

09/14/2023

Knowing how to help someone when they're in crisis can sometimes feel overwhelming. It's easy to get caught up in the emotions of the moment and feel like you have to be an expert to help someone in their moment of need. This ***dePreventionMonth, YOU at College wants to focus on how we can decrease mental health stigma and increase help-seeking behavior for every student, faculty, or staff member on campus.

When it comes to supporting someone in an acute or emerging mental health crisis, it is important to remember that you do not need to have all of the answers. The most important thing you can do is take action. If you don’t feel as though you can offer adequate support, find someone who can.

Check out an article from our team around some ways you can be proactive when helping those in crisis. In the piece we go through three support scenarios and provide actionable steps you can take to make sure the person in need feels supported and connects to help. Click below to learn more and connect with our team today learn more about how we're streamlining crisis navigation through our innovative tool, HelpCompass.

💻 Explore the Insights: https://youatcollege.com/newsroom/from-the-team/how-to-help-someone-in-crisis/

09/07/2023

Last Friday marked the beginning of ***depreventionmonth, which is focused on decreasing stigma around mental health, normalizing conversations around su***de and suicidal ideation, and helping people access life-saving resources when they're in need. While research shows that college students have lower rates of su***de than the general population, the truth is that statistics in the past decade surrounding college student su***de and suicidal ideation show a concerning trend.

Since 2014, our team has partnered with institutions of higher education to address these trends and evolving mental health challenges facing students, while finding new ways to help them thrive. For Su***de Prevention Month, our team put together some insights from our work promoting mental health and helping students in need. Click below to explore the article and connect with our team to learn more.

Reminder: If you are having thoughts of su***de, or know someone who is, call or text 988, or visit 988lifeline.org, to speak with someone you can trust 24/7.

Read The Article: https://youatcollege.com/newsroom/su***de-prevention-month-addressing-a-growing-crisis/

08/28/2023

☕️ Here's a great read for your morning coffee. New research from multiple large-scale surveys in the Spring of 2023 sought to explore the discrepancy between what students endorsed needing in terms of support services from their institution compared with what key stakeholders endorsed already providing to students.

This research identifies a critical gap in support services that can ultimately impede student success and cause a decrease in utilization of critical campus supports that help students thrive during school. Namely that students want comprehensive support from their school, while finding themselves increasingly unaware of what campus services are already available to them. Click the link below to dig into these insights and learn how you can leverage them to encourage student success at your institution!



https://www2.youatcollege.com/newsroom/the-importance-of-increasing-access-to-student-support-services/