Mental Health Flock (Originating from the JED Campus Initiative)

JED Campus Class of 2024 Alumni Badge

The Mental Health Flock is a team of students, staff and faculty that work collectively to improve the mental wellness of the Ithaca College campus community. Our team is comprised of working subcommittees that meet throughout the academic year to implement mental health initiatives and work towards best practices to promote the mental wellness of our students. 

The Mental Health Flock originated from the JED Campus Committee, and rebranded to the Mental Health Flock in Summer 2024, to carry on our work and build brand and name recognition following the momentum of our popular GEESE Initiative, a mental health campaign developed and implemented by the communications subcommittee.

In Fall 2024 Ithaca College Graduated from the JED Campus initiative, a 4-year evidence-based program, to cultivate a campus community that fosters emotional wellness and works towards suicide prevention. We are proud to have graduated from this national recognized program and have shared our final campus report from the JED Foundation below, as well as a half-way progress report. 

JED Campus Final Progress Report - ic-jed-final-progress-report-fall-2024 (pdf)

The Mental Health Flock team would like to share our final JED Campus Progress Report that was provided to the team in Fall 2024 upon graduating from the JED Campus Program. 

JED Campus Progress Report: 2020 - May 2022 - JED 2020 - 2022 Report_FFV (pdf)

The Ithaca College JED Campus Committee would like to share the following progress report with the Ithaca College community to provide updates about the process and the progress made through May 2022. 

Learn More about the JED Campus Program

Ithaca College participated in the JED Foundation Campus Program between 2020 and 2024. The JED Campus Program follows a 4-year timeline to implement best practices guided by the JED Foundation’s Comprehensive Suicide Prevention framework. This comprehensive approach contains 6 key components, which include:

  • developing life skills, promoting social connectedness,
  • identifying students at risk, increasing help seeking behavior,
  • providing mental health & substance abuse services,
  • following crisis management procedures,
  • restricting access to potentially lethal means and
  • building a strategic plan that addresses each of these components.

This was implemented by the Mental Health Flock (previously the JED Campus Committee) from January 2021 through our graduation in Fall 2024. The Mental Health Flock continues to meet and work to sustain mental health initiatives and to make additional progress.