The College CARE Team
Consultation - Assessment - Referral - Education
Marple Campus
Office 3250
Phone: 610-359-7389
Fax: 610-325-2820
www.dccc.edu/student-services/care-team
A Safety Net to Support Our Students and Each Other
Delaware County Community College is concerned about the health, welfare and safety of its students, faculty and staff. We are committed to providing an environment where individuals can learn, work and teach successfully. Our College’s CARE Team is an interdisciplinary group providing assessment, referral, and education to students who are in apparent or potential distress at any of the College’s campuses or sites, and could benefit from the safety net of the College’s CARE Team.
For more information or to make a referral, visit the CARE Team page.
- Provide a formal protocol for addressing behaviors that impact the well-being of an individual or the College community.
- Connect members of the College community to needed resources.
- Determine and initiate appropriate responses to ensure that services, support and resources are deployed effectively.
- Balance the needs of the student and those of the College community at large.
- Student has excessive absences from class or group activity
- Student makes concerning communications to an instructor
- Student’s behavior indicates heightened/extreme personal distress
- Student exhibits unusual behavior
- Concern a student is suffering from impaired mental status
- Concern a student may be having thoughts of suicide
- Student is experiencing stress over housing or financial insecurity
- Assist faculty or staff in developing a plan of action
- Refer the student to appropriate community resources
- Facilitate a meeting between concerned parties
- Mandate psychological assessment
- Recommend voluntary or involuntary removal from a class or the College
- Make other recommendations consistent with College policies or procedures
- Recommend no action, pending further observation