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Guest Speaker Presentation —

Rachel Auten, LMSW, Director of Student Support and Case Management in Student Affairs

Chris Corbett PsyD, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) 

• Rachel Auten and Chris Corbett present on student support services available to students
• They are giving talks around campus to help inform faculty and staff surrounding how to respond when students present challenges to them that may fall outside of their expertise and what they’re trained in.
• Having knowledge of what resources and networks are available + how to connect students to the resources can be very beneficial. 

The areas of support in Rachel’s area include: 

• SCRT : Student Care Referral Team. This goes to Rachel’s area and team. (There is also now an area for employees to submit referrals for themselves or another employee called an Employee Care Referral. This goes to HR so the employee can be connected. )
• The SCRT team is a risk assessment team comprised of members with various experience and expertise. If a student is referred to SCRT, the team comes together to determine the risk level and connects students with appropriate resources. Rachel went through the process of submitting a care referral.
• Case Management is a point of service that provides service to many students. Provide holistic approach.

Chris Corbett’s area is KU Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and comprises the clinical side. The CAPS team is made up of licensed masters and doctoral level clinicians, psychiatrists and graduate students. 

CAPS includes: 

• Therapy sessions: individual psychotherapy, group therapy, workshops
• Psychiatric Care/Medication Management
• Testing Services
• HOPE@CAPS Mental Health Peer Educators: includes students that are trained to help students manage daily stressors and connect to campus resources.
  • Peer Listening
  • Outreach
  • Space on 4th floor of Union to recharge – drinks, snacks, can pop in to unwind.
• CARE Services
• Telus: Mobile App – 24/7 counseling available and mental health tips
• CAPS is primarily located on 2nd floor of Watkins but recently has started having embedded clinicians in other areas of campus.
• CAPS has worked earnestly to increase same-day access and increase staffing.

Student Senate Report

• The candidacy for Student Senate elections is now closed.
• There are three coalitions running for President & Vice-President.
• Student Senate is working on campaign items to help increase voter turnout.
• Student Senate is also working with School of Pharmacy and KU Dining to bring back School of Pharmacy cafeteria. There may be a coffee house pilot or full vending machine to start with.
• Evanna has been working on a Jayhawk Hub Canvas Tile to house resources together in Canvas. Surveys will be going out to students, faculty, and staff to collect feedback.
• Student Senate will be presenting with KU Hero on April 22 regarding education of Narcan and fentanyl test strips. This will be in conjunction with the undergraduate RA meeting.
• Student Senate “hammock project” with KU Grounds and KU Operations is going well. 

Staff Senate Report

• Staff Senate elections are complete. Jessica Chilcoat will be the next Staff Senate President-Elect.
• Docking Survey is out for staff. Some staff shared they didn’t receive the e-mail from Mike Walker.
• There is a proposed Staff Senate IT code change that is going through approval process. This will include going from an IT officer to an IT committee.
• Teri and Marissa will have meeting with Provost next week. 

Faculty Senate Report

• Faculty Senate elections are occurring.
• Since last University Senate meeting, there was a KBOR meeting on March 12 that Sam attended. Sam met with Council of Faculty Senate Presidents there.
  • They discussed progress of tuition support proposal. A survey went out surrounding this. It had a good response.
  • They also discussed revised Faculty of the Year Award. This year there will be three faculty nominations accepted instead of just two which include 1 tenured faculty, 1 tenure-track and 1 non-tenure track.
  • Chairs and Directors can be on lookout for that e-mail.
  • FacEx working on support statement for international community. This will be presented to Faculty Senate. 

University Senate Report

• Josh putting together where items stand and future recommendations as the academic year is closing.
• Josh plans to meet with Jen Roberts to go over the excused absence policy and what actions are already in the works so that when the next administration picks it up, they know where to begin the discussion on potential revisions to the policy.
• SenEx participated in Pharmacy Dean search and is currently participating in Business Dean search. 

Travis Goff will be speaking on April 17th. 

New Business —

Meeting adjourned.