CARE Team Reporting

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You are welcome to use this wording when responding to a student and edit it in a way that sounds authentic to you as an individual.

Thank you for sharing this sensitive information with me. It sounds like you are going through a difficult experience. I want to do what I can to make sure SVC supports you, so I have asked someone from the CARE Team to reach out to you. You can expect someone to contact you soon. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Note: If using the above language, please remember to submit a report if you have not done so yet.

(These questions meant to serve as guidelines for referring a student to CARE)

Please note that CARE operates during normal business hours and does not provide immediate crisis response. If you have a concern about a student that you believe requires immediate attention, please call 911 if it is an emergency and also contact Campus Security (Mount Vernon Campus) at 360.416.7777 or (Whidbey Island Campus) at 360.770.5393.

Listed below are some of the possible signs of distress that would warrant a CARE Report:

• Change in behavior and/or appearance: Have you noticed a change in the student’s behavior? (e.g. the student was attending class regularly and has stopped showing up, the student is looking more and more disheveled and “out of it”, the student’s academic performance is declining).
• Well-being concern: Is the student presenting to you in a way that has you concerned for their well-being? (e.g. the student is making poor choices, you have received a concerning email from the student, the student does not seem to have many social connections, the student presents as angry or confrontational). Is the student experiencing multiple levels of distress? (e.g. poor academic performance and looking disheveled, student stops attending class and responding to your attempts to reach out, you have reason to believe that student may be experiencing hardships outside of what you are physically seeing or hearing).
• Resource connection: Does the student need support from multiple campus resources? Determine whether your office is able to handle this student’s concern or if the concern should be addressed by connecting the student with more than one other office on campus.
• Missing multiple classes and assignments: Is the student choosing not to go to class even though there is a penalty for missing? Are they falling behind in multiple classes or in multiple assignments? Are they missing class because of other, less important, activities (e.g., sleeping, playing video games, watching TV, etc.)?

If you are still uncertain about whether to submit a CARE report, you may contact the CARE Team Coordinator, Sandy Jordan at [email protected] to ask for support. You are encouraged to submit a CARE report if you are uncertain about whether or not it is appropriate to do so, as your information can provide the “missing piece” to ensuring that a student is connected to support.

At SVC, we have a team of professionals who are dedicated to your overall well-being and your academic success. As your faculty, I may submit a CARE report to make sure that you have wrap around support to be successful here at SVC. You can also submit a CARE report for yourself or others.

As an instructor, one of my responsibilities is to help create a safe learning environment, thus I also have a mandatory reporting responsibility. It is my goal that you feel able to share information related to your life experiences in classroom discussions, in your assignments, and in any individual meetings with me. It is always my goal to keep information you share private, but in cases of certain disclosures I am required by law to share that information with the appropriate reporting entities. I must report all allegations of dating violence or domestic violence, child abuse or neglect, abuse of vulnerable populations, and/or credible threats of harm to yourself or others. Based on your disclosure to me, I may need to report this information. Someone will contact you to offer support and connection to resources on and off campus.