The demand for counseling services by our students cannot be met given the loss of the mental health liaison from Access: Supports for Living and the part-time nature of the only other counselor in the department and the director's limited time available to provide ongoing short-term counseling.  A full-time assistant director is needed to provide counseling services to the student population including conducting counseling intakes, mental health consultations, and counseling sessions.  In addition this position would provide administrative support by directing the administrative assistants, student interns, and work study students and would act as director in the absence of the director of the Wellness Center.  The assistant director would also provide psycho-educational outreach programming to include workshops and support groups for the campus community.  This position would be 75% direct service clinical duties and 25% administrative duties.  

REQUEST FOR STAFFING (STAFF/CHAIR, CSEA) FOR AY 2019-20

Position requested:        Assistant Director

New Position Replacement: Replacement Name: FT: X    PT: 

Please indicate the reason for the vacancy.

Resignation               Retirement                 Other: never existed

Justification for Action Requested

Briefly describe why the position is needed.

To provide counseling services, outreach programming, and administrative oversight of specific staff members

Have you considered consolidating duties into an existing position, changing to part-time, or

redistributing to other positions? If yes, please indicate why these solutions are not appropriate.

This position is needed to meet the demand for counseling services that currently has not been able to be met through part-time positions of appropriately licensed professionals.

Describe the inadequacies of current staffing to support the immediate and future needs in your

department/office:

Counseling services were being provided by two part-time counselors one of which is through Access: Supports for Living and that position has been vacant since January 2018.

Describe any technological enhancements/solutions you have considered:

Duties cannot be accomplished by technology

Additional Evidence

State/Federal/Grant Requirements

Is this position required due to new state/federal or grant requirements? If yes, please explain the new

requirement(s) below and describe why current staffing is inadequate.

Yes                 No: X              Explanation

Other

Briefly describe additional evidence to support this position request. Examples of evidence may include

connections to advancement of your department/division goals or Strategic Plan objectives and/or

specific data being tracked by your department that support the need.

This hire would meet the increasing demand for mental health services on our campus.  Research has shown that counseling services available on campus for students support retention.

Implications/Impact if not filled

Briefly describe the impact of not filling this position:

We cannot meet the demand for mental health services and prevention programming.  We would not be operating under what is considered to be best practice for ratio of mental health providers to total student population provided on a college campus.