We are checking, checking, checking and they begin to rely on that when there's a problem, rather than, 'OK, what do I do?' (they're asking) 'Mom, what do I do?'. Dori Hutchinson More Quotes by Dori Hutchinson More Quotes From Dori Hutchinson BU is listening, BU cares, we're listening because there's so much student distress out there and we know from the research ... two-thirds of the students, when they're really struggling, they don't go to campus mental health professionals or faculty or even their parents. They go to each other. Dori Hutchinson health-news We're listening because there's so much student distress out there and we know from the research ... two-thirds of the students, when they're really struggling, they don't go to campus mental health professionals or faculty or even their parents. They go to each other, so we knew that we needed to provide gatekeeper training at the student level. Dori Hutchinson health-news Faculty and staff often don't know what to do and they feel like, 'Well is it my job to be interfering, observing or commenting on someone's distress?' and I feel quite strongly that it is, we can care about the students in our classroom. We can say, 'I notice that you can't keep your eyes open in class, now what's going on? I'm worried about you,' or 'You haven't been in class,' or 'You seem really distracted' and then letting students know there are resources on campus for them to use. Dori Hutchinson health-news
