Yesterday the U.S. Dept. of Education announced it will award Virginia Tech $960,685 in federal grant money to improve counseling services.
Can you imagine what university health care could be like if every school received that much money? If mental health was prioritized to the extent that its budget could rival a college sports team's?
I'm thrilled that Virginia Tech will get this money, but it would be even better if a tragedy like that which occurred there didn't have to happen before college mental health was on the national radar.
[The Dept. of Education press release on the grant can be found here: http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/09/09212007a.html]
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I couldn't agree more. I go to a school with an undergraduate population of 10,000 students. Our Counseling Services Center here on campus employs only 15 people. Some of these staff members are not yet doctors, and most fo them are not even full time. That's a doctor to student ratio of 667/1. I recently wrote a letter to the University's Vice President asking for an explanation of how this could possibly be seen as adequate. I don't understand why a school needs a tragedy in order to take mental health care seriously. It's really a disgrace.
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