This one goes out to Flinders staff! Alerting you to the Responding to Students in Distress training that is available now via iEnrol.<\/p>\n
I spent this morning browsing the new Responding to Students in Distress<\/a> online module on Canvas.<\/p>\n It is targeted to staff who want to learn more about their responsibilities in supporting students during difficult times.<\/p>\n It covers things like your role and responsibilities, support protocols, relevant supports and contacts, core conversation skills, reporting requirements, duty of care, and managing your own wellbeing.<\/p>\n The course is well put together, having been adapted from RMIT’s Protocols for assisting distressed students: Essentials.<\/em><\/p>\n It is quick to complete, unambiguous in its recommendations and personally I found it a good reminder of basic caring protocols (and that is coming from someone who should already be very familiar with them in the first place!).<\/p>\n You can access it via a slightly convoluted process starting from the iEnrol page<\/a>. Keep mashing buttons and checking for email confirmations until you arrive at the Canvas topic itsel<\/a>f.<\/p>\n Courses like this one recognise that University is a high-pressure environment, for both students and staff.<\/p>\n While we all have our jobs to do, we are a community, and courses like this one invite us to care for that community and the people in it.<\/p>\n On a related note: Flinders staff who would like to learn more about supporting student wellbeing\/mental health, I will be giving a rambling (possibly incoherent) presentation as part of the First Year Community of Practice next Monday 20th May where I will be exploring the larger topic of how we as educators can better build wellbeing and mental health practices into our topics and teaching.<\/p>\n To join the FYCOP mailing list, email grace.chipperfield@flinders.edu.au<\/a> and then get the details of the meeting itself.<\/p>\n