Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Treasa Fox:
I thank the Senator for her questions. The four pillars describe a comprehensive model if we were resourced to provide such a model. The most obvious one is the clinical services or the direct service we provide in terms of one-to-one and group supports for students who attend with mental health difficulties, but there are others that are as important. We mentioned the national student mental health and suicide prevention framework, and within that we talk about a whole-campus approach. One of the nine themes, which I was involved in the development of, is around how we resource and support other people in the university structure to be able to identify students in need, maybe students at risk of dropout, and to resource and skill them to confidently and competently-----
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