SAIT Mental Health Symposium
Our goal
Through hosting the mental health symposium, we hope to spread the message that everyone on the SAIT campus has the capacity to contribute to the resiliency of SAIT students.
In showcasing the innovative work already being championed, knowledge can be shared, ideas launched, and new partnerships developed. Let’s celebrate our investment in student success and wellbeing by discovering how to continue furthering our impact as a thriving campus community.
What is resilience?
Student resilience is dynamic. Yes, it’s the sum of a student’s capacity to manage stress and to grow and adapt to challenges. But it’s a process that’s determined and facilitated just as much by a student’s environment as individual factors.
If we define resilience as a process where multiple systems come together collaboratively to help students regain, sustain, or improve their mental wellbeing when challenged by one or more risk factors (Ungar, date), our capacity to influence grows. Caring campus communities foster student resilience, and student resilience supports student success – both inside and outside the classroom.
2024 Student Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey (CCWS) results highlights
Meeting the challenge to support student mental health.
of SAIT students feel that students’ mental and emotional health is an institutional priority
of students feel SAIT has a good support system for students going through difficult times.
of students report experiencing moderate to severe levels of mental distress.
of students rated their ability to handle unexpected or difficult problems as excellent to good.
This Symposium has been made possible through the generous support of the Alberta Government Post-Secondary Student Health Grant and the Bell Let’s Talk Kick-Off Grant.
Contact us
Student Development and Counselling
AA205, Heritage Hall, SAIT Main Campus
Monday – Friday | 8:30 am – 4:15 pm
To book an appointment, connect with us on Microsoft Teams or call us.
Before and after-hours appointments can be requested by contacting the office. Same-day drop-ins are available.
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Phone - 403.284.7023
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.