Mental health literacy: The missing step between distress and engagement

LIVE WEBINAR
Date: Thursday, August 1, 2024

Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM PST

Mental health literacy is one of the strongest predictors of help-seeking behavior. Despite this, 40-50% of students in distress never seek professional help.  When students can understand how they are feeling and recognize patterns, they are more likely to connect distress to next steps.

Our whitepaper The Silent Gap: Why Student Mental Health Requires a Digital Bridge to Care discusses why mental health literacy is the foundation of help-seeking — and how campuses are operationalizing it at scale.

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What you’ll learn

40–50%

of students in distress never
reach out for help

Learn why many students with clinically significant distress never access formal care—and why the challenge goes beyond capacity to an engagement gap.

4

major student groups
being left behind

Understand who the high-need, low-utilization groups are and the predictable barriers that prevent them from engaging with care.

20%

of students in distress reach out
after anonymous screenings

Discover how self-reliance can be leveraged earlier—and how anonymous, low-barrier tools increase mental health literacy and bridge students to care.