Featured Presentations

Partnership in Practice: Supporting Mental Health Provision at Michigan Community Colleges

Symposium presented at the 66th annual Council for the Study of Community Colleges Conference, Detroit, MI. April 2025.

The MHICC team was joined by Melissa Ware and Leslie Navarro – two visionary counseling directors leading efforts at local MI CCs – to discuss the MHICC capacity building program with conference attendees.

Addressing Challenges to Student Mental Health Access at Michigan Community Colleges: Innovative Approaches to Expanding Mental Health Care Capacity Using Novel Data Collection Methods.

Workshop presented at the 8th annual Mental Health on College Campuses Conference, Ann Arbor, MI. April 2025.

The MHICC team shared strategies for expanding mental health access through innovative data collection methods to an interdisciplinary group of conference attendees.

Community College Student Mental Health: Institutional Approaches to Supporting Students and Minimizing Risk.

Training session presented at the Michigan Community College Risk Management Authority (MCCRMA) quarterly board meeting. March 2025.

MHICC Principal Investigator Dr. Sara Abelson and Research Staff Tim Rhodes partnered with the Michigan Community College Risk Management Authority (MCCRMA) to present the importance of student mental health to over 100 MI CC leaders as part of MCCRMA’s quarterly meeting.