Suicide Intervention Policy

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has a policy written in the student code regarding suicidal ideation and the engagement of mandatory assessment. As written in the Student Code 2-102 Mandatory Assessments:

Suicide Intervention Policy

    1. When the university is presented with a credible report that a student has threatened or attempted suicide, engaged in efforts to prepare to attempt suicide or has been psychiatrically hospitalized due to suicidal ideation, that student may be required to attend four sessions of professional assessment.
    2. Procedures
      1. The attending or responsible university employee who becomes aware of facts stated in subsection (a)(1) above must submit a Suicide Incident Referral Form including the student’s name and circumstances of the student’s suicide incident.
      2. Members of the Suicide Intervention Team (SIT) will conduct an individualized clinical evaluation of the report to determine if assessment will be mandated. SIT will notify the Student Assistance Center (SAC) of their determination.
      3. The SAC will notify the student via their official University of Illinois email account of the requirement. This notification will include relevant deadlines; enforcement mechanisms for noncompliance, including but not limited to registration holds; and instructions for appealing (See subsection (c) below.).
      4. If the student is not subject to mandatory assessment, the SAC will contact the student via their official University of Illinois email account and provide them with information about relevant campus resources.

To uphold this policy, members of the Counseling Center staff assess all Suicide Incident Referrals and decide whether those referrals should be activated. In addition, all members of the Counseling Center staff provide mandatory suicide assessments should the student choose to complete their assessments at the Counseling Center.