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:
The Psychological Counsellors in Higher Education Ireland, of which I am chair, held training on identifying and responding to stress and the at-risk student, and that was delivered by clinicians in person to university staff. I think it has run in UCD for a number of years. The pandemic, of course, required us to go online and we were lucky to receive some funding from the Higher Education Authority, HEA, to develop that. That is in development at the moment, so there would be a version online open for all staff that would be hosted on the virtual learning environment, and the level 3 of that training is an in-person module and does a much deeper dive into asking questions about risk and suicide.
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