HR Update

Boynton Health is offering mental health training as a free professional development opportunity for University of Minnesota faculty and staff. Participants will learn up-to-date information about UMN students on their campus and essential skills for supporting the needs of today’s students. The program is made up of eight, 20-minute-long modules available through the Training Hub. Morris and Twin Cities modules are currently live with Crookston, Duluth, and Rochester available in the fall of 2023. Modules content includes:

• Student mental health at UMN-TC – prerequisite module
• Making effective referrals
• Listening effectively to student mental health concerns
• Responding appropriately to student mental health concerns
• Situations of student suicidality
• The impact of identity and oppression on student mental health
• Beyond the individual: Promoting mental health for groups of students
• Taking action to promote student mental health: Applied project

The fully-asynchronous series of training allows participants to access the content proactively as their schedule allows. Supported by the President's Initiative for Student Mental Health (PRISMH), faculty and staff can self-enroll at any time through the Training Hub.