The Mental Health Work Group (MHWG) was convened in September 2001, to identify the issues surrounding access to mental health care by students. It was composed of senior representatives from all units supplying mental health care to student on the central, north and medical campuses. College–age students are more likely to experience mental illness than other age groups, in part because the onset of many mental illnesses occurs during these years. Over the course of a single year, 1 in 12 college students in the US will make a suicide plan, and 7 of every 100,000 college students die each year from suicide.

Membership of the MHWG was composed of representatives from all major components of the mental health providers serving students within the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus. For a complete list of those individuals who have participated in the MHWG see the Complete Report of the Mental Health Work Group, available as a link to this web page.

Mental Health Work Group Summary Report and Proposal
(September 2005) 95K

Mental Health Work Group Executive Summary
(May 2003) 82K

Complete Mental Health Work Group Report
(May 2003) 242K