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Black Mental Health Counsellor 

Antigonish, NS

The Black Mental Health Counsellor will play a critical role in promoting inclusivity and belonging of all students. Highlights of the responsibilities include:

  • Provide mental health support to individuals and in group-based settings focusing on addressing anxiety, stress, and other mental health-related challenges African Nova Scotian/Black Students face.
  • Integrate Africentric approaches to mental health and wellness, ensuring culturally relevant support for Black Students
  • Collaborate with other team members (e.g. Diversity Engagement Center, Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Coordinator, Health & Counselling, Bloomfield Hub) to develop and implement joint programming focused on anxiety and stress management and other mental health program priorities that integrate cultural connections for all students.
  • In collaboration with other Centre for Black Student Success staff and community partners, support students from neighbouring African Nova Scotian communities in the transition to university
  • Develop and lead proactive, stress-based programming to enhance student coping and resilience for all students on campus

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Clinical Case Worker - Student Experience Hub

Charlottetown, PEI

Working out of the Office of Counselling Services, the Clinical Case Worker provides intensive case management services to students exhibiting distress or disruption as a result of complex case presentations.  The Clinical Case Worker works both within the counselling unit and in multidisciplinary capacity to support students and the campus personnel who provide supports to students with complex needs.

  • Provide psychotherapeutic counselling interventions to a limited caseload of students with complex needs

  • Provide case management services to students with complex needs accessing multiple university services

  • Provide referral support and coordination for students with complex needs accessing community supports via government services and community groups

  • Chair the Student of Concern committee in providing assessment and behavioural intervention plans for students identified via the Student of Concern process

  • Consult with faculty and staff who are supporting student experiencing difficulty

  • Conduct holistic assessment of needs for students identified as needing support with complex case management

  • Provide navigation support to students in need of support to access supports and services

  • Maintain appropriate, confidential record-keeping for clients and the Student of Concern process


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    Wellness Navigator (Three (3) positions)

    Nova Scotia

    The Nova Scotia Department of Advanced Education is funding a two-year project to support the needs of post-secondary students who are experiencing neurodevelopmental challenges. In addition to coordinating screening and additional financial support for this cohort of students attending the 11 post-secondary institutions in Nova Scotia, there will be enhanced navigational support for students to access psychoeducational assessments and to engage with campus-based accessibility and health services. Reporting to the Director of Counselling and Psychological Services, the three Wellness Navigators, housed at Dalhousie University, will support students from across the post-secondary sector in Nova Scotia. The Wellness Navigators will be responsible for creating content and promoting this pathway initiative to students and to campuses at their roster of post-secondary settings in the province..

    • Reach out to students who have been positively screened for possible neurodevelopmental condition by campus accessibility services, and provide information about psychoeducational assessment pathway steps.
    • Conduct financial screening of students and update over time.
    • Facilitate the engagement of the student to campus accessibility services and health/counselling services for follow-up accommodations and healthcare services, as needed.
    • Promote the psychoeducational assessment pathway initiative broadly to relevant campus entities (including student groups).
    • Communicate with community psychologists/psychology practices in their region to facilitate student access to assessment services. Travel to campuses in their region as necessary to establish relationships with campus partners
    • Administer grant funding agreement for the HMNS bursary that includes the student’s personal information that will be collected and how it will be used and shared, along with student consent for use of sharing of personal information (Financial and Consent Agreement).

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      Student Care Navigator

      Sydney, Nova Scotia

      Reporting to the Manager, Student Services with a functional reporting line to the Manager, Student Care and Community Standards, you will:

      • Play a key role on the campus supporting students with focus in the following areas: complex student case management, student non-academic policy caretaker and campus educator.
      • Receive, review, and respond to all concerning non-academic student behavioral issues.
      • Provide complex case management for student behavioural files to ensure that issues brought forward by community members are addressed collaboratively, with ongoing communication and with a care plan that supports student belonging, wellbeing, and academic success within a framework of accountability.
      • Connect students to appropriate and culturally specific services and ensure that they are followed and supported in their academic journey.
      • Oversee, in consultation/collaboration with Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion, the campus response to complex files that involve intersecting concerns including human rights, discrimination, racism, sexualized violence among other issues.
      • Engage in practical problem solving and service navigation to provide a seamless transition and access to support for any student.
      • Collaborate with counselling, cultural support, accessibility, advising and academics as required.
      • Caretake various student facing non-academic policies including Student Community Standards and Campus Care Team, along with referring to the Committee overseeing Mandated Supported Leave.
      • Support the work of student issues related to the Sexual Violence Policy as required and understand gender-based violence (GBV) in post-secondary.

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      Atlantic Association of College & University Student Services


      AACUSS
      C/O Tanya Jones
      UNB Counselling Services      CC Jones Student Services Centre, 26 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3

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