Primary objectives are to:
- Increase student access to effective treatments by adapting the Collaborative Model for clinical depression, with particular attention to students who traditionally underutilize mental health services.
- Improve identification & treatment of depression using the collaborative care model to systematically track patient outcomes across the broader health service.
- Implement coordinated care clinical registries, healthcare integration, and care management to facilitates better coordinated care.
- Apply implementation methods that optimize existing resources via dissemination of real-world strategies for systematic depression care in college health centers.
- Institutional commitment to change through increased awareness of mental health concerns in higher education and institutional commitments to effective depression care and student success.
Core values include:
- Application of a student-centered model
- Application of continuous clinical practice improvement methods
- Use of an outcomes-driven approach to depression care that embraces clinical, developmental, and learning outcomes
- The development of campus-based collaborative learning communities dedicated to improving the quality of mental health services in higher education
- Ongoing ethical research to support the delivery of cost effective depression treatment
- Careful stewardship of project resources