Data are a vital tool to design effective services for college counseling centers and advocate for student needs.  This webinar will: 1) orient participants to the breadth of data sources available to them; 2) explain how data can inform counseling center best practices; and 3) outline ways data can be used to advocate for supports and answer complex questions regarding student needs.

Presenters:

Cindy Bruns, PhD (Central Washington University)

Cindy Bruns, PhD is the Director of Counseling at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.  Prior to becoming the director in 2017, she was the training director for the center's APA-accredited doctoral internship in health service psychology.  She has experience working in counseling centers with enrollments ranging between 1,000 and 10,000 and is an accreditation site visitor for the American Psychological Association.  Cindy also serves at the Survey Coordinator, non-voting member of the AUCCCD Board of Directors, and liaison to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health Advisory Board. 

Brett Scofield, PhD (CCMH)

Dr. Brett E. Scofield earned his Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Wichita State University in Clinical- Community Psychology in 2006 and has devoted nearly his entire career to collegiate mental health, working as a clinician and administrator within multiple university-based counseling centers over the past 21 years. He currently serves as the Associate Director of the Penn State Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), as well as the Executive Director of the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH), a national research center that includes a network of over 850 college counseling centers. Dr. Scofield has played a significant role within CCMH for the past 11 years, contributing to numerous publications on the topic of college student mental health and helping the Center develop several tools that are widely used by college counseling centers nationally to advocate for services. In addition, threat assessment and management are a particular passion of Dr. Scofield’s, having served on the Threat Assessment Teams at two major universities since 2012.

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