ERIC Number: EJ1477965
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jul
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1086-4822
EISSN: EISSN-1536-0687
Available Date: 0000-00-00
The Behavioral Services Division: Rethinking Campus Police and Reshaping Student Counseling
Meggen Sixbey1; Sara Nash2
About Campus, v30 n3 p22-28 2025
Perhaps no corner of the college campus better illustrates the innovations that the modern delivery of student services has experienced than does the university police department, where, according to Katherine Knott (2022) in "Inside Higher Ed," the growing trend toward a co-responder model--pairing mental health professionals with campus officers to support students--is taking hold from the University of California Riverside and Cal State Long Beach to Oregon State University. Reflecting on the frontline work done at University of Florida (UF), where the authors were involved with the creation of UFPD's Behavioral Services Division and the first-ever campus police department employing and embedding mental health clinicians, launching the UFPD "co-responder program" in Summer 2022. The UFPD co-responder program pairs a licensed behavioral health specialist with a specialty-trained police officer to respond to campus calls that may involve emotional distress or a behavioral health crisis.
Descriptors: School Security, Police, School Counseling, Mental Health, Counselors, Student Personnel Services, Universities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
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Author Affiliations: 1University of Florida Police Department, Behavioral Services Division; 2University of Florida Counseling & Wellness Center