About Us

The Caring Campus project is essentially made up of two parts – there’s a research component, and a student action and leadership component. The research component includes surveys of the male freshmen populations of the three campuses involved (Queen’s, Dalhousie, and Calgary), in an effort to understand both students’ substance use habits and mental health, as well as their perceptions of the substance use and mental health attitudes and behaviours on their campus, and to see if these behaviours and perceptions change at all over time.

The student action component has seen the development of groups of student leaders on the project campuses. The goal of these groups has been to help other students learn about mental wellness and safe substance use patterns and to correct misperceptions about substance use norms. The student groups have been given the freedom to try new things to reach their audience, and to expand and develop their brand and messaging as they see fit, based on the unique realities of their campus.

If you would like more information about the project, please contact Josh Decaire at joshua.decaire@queensu.ca.