Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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9 Education and Employment
9 Education and Employment
Pages 83-88
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• Many college students with substance abuse or mental health problems do not receive the services they need to remain healthy. (Bailie)
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But increasing levels of education lead to different thinking and decision-making patterns, improve critical thinking skills, and provide individuals with better access to information. For example, education increases understanding of the nature of scientific inquiry and trust in scientific evidence, which is important for the prevention of health problems, said Schneider.
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Verifying self-reports with existing administrative data would provide a much more complete picture of the health services provided to students and enable better campus health service planning and administration, Schneider said. Many students who are less well prepared and from lower socioeconomic backgrounds attend 2-year institutions with the expectation of eventually earning a bachelor's degree, Schneider said.
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Shannon Bailie, director of health and wellness in the Division of Student Life at the University of Washington, focused on three issues associated with these behaviors: alcohol use, mental health disorders, and sexual violence. To the statistics on alcohol use and mental health disorders summarized in Part II of this report, Bailie added several data points on sexual violence.
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Health and wellness gives students an access point for a wide range of services on and off campus that are different from the services offered by the health center, the judicial system, or the police. Health and wellness programs include a student care program, which is linked with its consultation and assessment team; a suicide prevention program; a sexual assault and relationship violence information service; and an alcohol and other drug education and intervention service.
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"They are telling police officers, ‘Hey, this is where, if you come into contact with a young person at 3:00 a.m., these are places where they can get services if they are in a mental health crisis.'" This kind of information also can be adapted for technology, so that, for example, an emergency department doctor could pull out a smartphone and learn about services that are available right at that moment rather than releasing a young person back to the street. "Where can they take young people, where are the resources that are available, who are the right people they can call to get them linked up with services?
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