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This site hosts reports, research and campaigns relating to student mental health. It is presented as a mostly open resource for members. The USI Mental Health programme is proud to be supported and funded by the Health Service Executive National Office for Suicide Prevention.
Connecting Minds Podcast

We all have a mental health. We all need to take care of ourselves.
USI works with your SU to discover better ways of coping with the strain of student life.
SUT 2025
Every year in June/July, new officers take up their roles as student representatives. This includes a group of brand-new welfare officers. AMLÉ provides in-depth training on many topics to these new officers prior to the start of the new academic year, and this year’s Student Union Training (SUT) took place in Galway. The AMLÉ Mental […]
New HEA Strategy for Student and Staff Health and Wellbeing
In student mental health, wellbeing, and suicide prevention policy there are two main policy documents in operation since 2019. These are the Student Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Framework and the Healthy Campus Charter, and the implementation of both has been overseen to date by the Higher Education Authority (HEA). Both policies sit well together, […]
Introducing the VP for Welfare 25/26 – Emma Monahan
Every year a new executive team/ coiste gnó is elected to work at a national level within USI. Candidates are elected at the annual national congress/ comhdail by representatives of all the member organisations across the country. The role is wide-ranging, and covers physical, mental and sexual wellbeing among others. The VP for Welfare raises […]