Students Crisis Awareness Committee's Role in Assisting Students
 

A relatively new, but potentially powerful effort in support of campus safety and community is FAU’s Student Crisis Awareness Committee (SCAC).  The SCAC will be comprised of University staff and faculty who have frequent student contact and who can be a resource of information on students in distress or students at risk, such as Athletics, Campus Recreation, Greek Life, Dean of Students Office, Housing & Residential Life, Student Activities, Student Conduct, Ombudsman, Police Department, Representatives from the partner campuses, University Faculty, Health Services (consulting role), Counseling Center (consulting role), and the Office of Students with Disabilities (consulting role).   SCAC meets once every two weeks and as needed to gather information, review and advise University administrators on how to cope with students identified as having difficulty coping in college, potentially posing a risk of harm to themselves or others, or engaging in behavior that threatens to become a risk of harm to themselves or others in the University community.  

The Student Crisis Awareness Committee’s primary focus will be on students who are not yet at a crisis stage but who pose a risk for crisis or demonstrate at-risk behavior.   The Student Crisis Awareness Committee’s primary function will be to confer and decide on immediate actions to prevent those students posing a risk of harm to self or others or engaging in behavior that poses a risk or threatens to pose a risk of harm to themselves or others in the University community.