Presentations to the Council on Mental Health and Welfare

Strategies for Supporting Students in Distress (pdf)

PowerPoint slides from the September 27, 2006 presentation at the Academic and Student Program Professionals (ASPP) semi-annual meeting. Kent Hubbell (Dean of Students) and Tim Marchell (Director of Mental Health Initiatives, Gannett Health Services) reviewed data regarding student mental health and discussed a variety of initiatives currently underway.

Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Asian and Asian American Students (pdf)

PowerPoint slides from the April 13, 2006 presentation to Cornell University faculty, staff, and student leaders by Henry Chung, M.D., Cornell Class of 1984. Dr. Chung is Assistant Vice President for Student Health at New York University and Executive Director of the NYU Student Health Center. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.   From 2002-2005 he served as the Mental Health Project Director at the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health and as Senior Director for Research and Strategic Management at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center. 

• View the campus announcements of this presentation, "Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Asian and Asian American Students: Challenges and Opportunities" (pdf), and of Dr. Chung's discussion with students, entitled "Walking the Middle Road: A Common Dilemma for Asian American Students" (pdf)  
• Asian/Asian-American Task Force Report (pdf). In November 2002, Vice President Susan Murphy and Provost Biddy Martin charged a group of Cornell faculty, staff, and students to examine and report on the campus climate for our Asian and Asian American graduate and undergraduate students. This report was completed in October 2004, and has been presented to various campus constituents since then, including the Council on Mental Health and Welfare.

Best Practices in Reducing College Student Suicide: A Law and Policy Perspective (pdf)

PowerPoint slides from the October 12, 2005 web cast conference featuring panelists Gary Pavela, Director of Judicial Programs at the University of Maryland-College Park and editor of Synthesis: Law and Policy in Higher Education as well as the Synfax Weekly Report; and Paul Joffe, Clinical Psychologist and Founder of the Suicide Prevention Team at the University of Illinois.

Suicide in China (pdf)

PowerPoint slides from the June 20, 2005 presentation to members of the Council on Mental Health and Welfare, academic and student program professionals, and Ithaca area mental health service providers by Michael Phillips, Director of the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center. Dr. Phillips discussed suicide and suicide prevention work in China, as well as issues related to mental health of Chinese students on American campuses.

Graduate Student Mental Health and Welfare (pdf)

PowerPoint slides from the March 16, 2005 presentation to members of the Council on Mental Health and Welfare by Ellen Gainor, PhD, Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Cornell.

United States Air Force Lessons for Cornell (pdf) and USAF Research (pdf)

PowerPoint slides from the December 3, 2004 presentation to members of the Council on Mental Health and Welfare, academic and student program professionals, and Ithaca area mental health service providers by David Litts, OD, FAAO and Kerry Knox, PhD on the United States Air Force Suicide Prevention model.

Empirically Supported Program to Prevent Suicide Among a College Population (pdf)

Notes from the April 20, 2004 presentation to members of the Council on Mental Health and Welfare, academic and student program professionals, and Ithaca area mental health service providers by Paul Joffe, PhD, director of the suicide prevention program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.