Mental Health & Well-Being Initiatives
Our collaborative work to create a culture of well-being extends throughout the campus and our engagement in new initiatives. Learn how we strive to create a culture of well-being for all students, and special projects we are engaged in to reach our many diverse communities.
Explore Mental Health & Well-Being Initiatives
Flourish Stories
We are honored to present the stories of Stanford students who have courageously shared their experiences on finding hope, healing, resilience, and joy through their mental health journeys. These flourish stories are part of a traveling exhibit that will be showcased at various locations throughout the month of May.
Fostering a Culture of Well-Being
Though the process and steps are unique for each individual, our aim is to provide a holistic lens of well-being and the tools necessary for our students to experience a sense of belonging, self-acceptance, authentic relationships, accomplishment and competence, positive emotions, and purpose and meaning at Stanford and beyond.
Supporting Student Mental Health
We continuously seek ways to improve the trajectory of our students by helping them to identify, address, and manage their emotions in addition to finding support among Stanford’s many communities. Most importantly, we continue to remind students that they are not alone in their journey.
Trees Together
Student Affairs adopted the slogan Trees Together to represent our collective efforts to protect the health and safety of the Stanford community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Colorful, engaging, and easy to understand materials were developed to keep students informed of rapidly changing national, state, and local public health advisories.
Weiland Health Initiative
Our mission is to promote mental health and wellness across the spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations through education, training and clinical services at Stanford and beyond.
More About Well-Being
While the mental health challenges of young adults have increase nationally in recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated already prevalent mental health issues among our students and often delayed care. We continue our commitment to acknowledge the lived experience of our students throughout this time and address students' immediate mental health needs, whether on or off campus, by creating opportunities to connect with campus resources to support their well-being.
Through collaboration with various units within Vaden Health Services and our many communities across campus, along with the support and involvement of current undergraduate and graduate students, new initiatives were launched that promoted mental health and wellness information and resources in creative, engaging, and student-centered ways.
