Lina Di Genova
Lina Di Genova
McGill University
Dr. Lina Di Genova is the assessment professional in Student Services at McGill University, Canada. Lina has over ten years’ experience in organisational performance metrics. Lina has led monitoring and evaluation of student affairs programmes on topics ranging from orientation to academic advising, student involvement, wellness and alumni outcomes. Before joining Student Services, Lina worked in University Institutional Planning on national assessment initiatives, such as the National Survey of Student Engagement benchmarking programme for the Canadian U15 Data Exchange and graduate education issues. Dr. Di Genova is also licensed, organizational psychologist.
Areas of expertise:
Program Collaborator
Mar 20, 2018 | McGill University
Categories: Research & Evaluation - Research Projects
Peer versus Professional Video Outreach to Enhance Mental Health Resilience in University Students
Principal Investigator: Heath, Nancy L; Di Genova, Lina; Iyer, Srividya N; Lewis, Stephen P; Whitley, Rob
Jun 20, 2018 | University of Toronto, Algonquin College, McGill University, Queen's University, University of Calgary
Categories: Research & Evaluation - Program Evaluation
Jun 17, 2019 | McGill University, Memorial University, Queen's University, University of Calgary, University of Toronto
Categories: Research & Evaluation - Research Projects
This presentation consists of five Canadian Institutes for Health Research- Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (CIHR-SPOR) research teams presenting on how to build capacity and promote student mental health. This presentations provides insight into how to include students and partners as active participants in the research process in a range of relevant and innovative studies on new approaches to campus mental health. The projects include enhancing service delivery through stepped care, the use of student-informed data and evaluation of strategies to develop resilience and support academic outcomes.
Jun 18, 2019 | McGill University, Queen's University, University of Toronto
This presentation aims to provide an overview of 24 mental health strategies of universities and colleges from across Canada. Common drivers, approaches and practices related to the development, implementation and evaluation of Campus Mental Health Strategies will be highlighted. The presentation concludes with evidence-informed tips and recommendations for future directions.
Oct 22, 2019 | Best Practices Network
The Best Practices Network conducted an environmental scan of existing post-secondary mental health strategies across Canada, from 2009 to 2019, and identified common and differing themes with respect to their development process, organizational structure, strategy components, key recommendations, and evaluation.
Sep 06, 2018 | Best Practices Network
Jun 11, 2020 | University of Toronto, McGill University, Queen's University, University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University
Transitioning to Remote Health and Wellness Services in Post-Secondary Settings: A Case Study Approach developed by Canadian Best Practices in Higher Education provides a guide to support post-secondary Health & Wellness and Counselling Centres in their transition to providing remote health and wellbeing services to students. This guide is intended for health and mental health clinicians, healthcare administrators, and other stakeholders considering transitioning their services from more traditional models of in-person care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Program Contact
Jun 20, 2018 | University of Toronto, Algonquin College, McGill University, Queen's University, University of Calgary
Categories: Research & Evaluation - Program Evaluation
Jun 17, 2019 | McGill University, Memorial University, Queen's University, University of Calgary, University of Toronto
Categories: Research & Evaluation - Research Projects
This presentation consists of five Canadian Institutes for Health Research- Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (CIHR-SPOR) research teams presenting on how to build capacity and promote student mental health. This presentations provides insight into how to include students and partners as active participants in the research process in a range of relevant and innovative studies on new approaches to campus mental health. The projects include enhancing service delivery through stepped care, the use of student-informed data and evaluation of strategies to develop resilience and support academic outcomes.
Jun 18, 2019 | McGill University, Queen's University, University of Toronto
This presentation aims to provide an overview of 24 mental health strategies of universities and colleges from across Canada. Common drivers, approaches and practices related to the development, implementation and evaluation of Campus Mental Health Strategies will be highlighted. The presentation concludes with evidence-informed tips and recommendations for future directions.
Jun 16, 2017 | McGill University, University of Calgary, University of Toronto
Categories: Research & Evaluation - Program Evaluation
This interactive session provided participants with a brief overview of assessment and evaluation trends in campus mental health. Panelists provided highlights of clinical and program evaluation outcomes (Sandra Yuen, University of Toronto), climate studies (Lina Di Genova, McGill University) and data from the University of Calgary’s campus-wide mental health strategy framework (Andrew Szeto). Participants were invited to engage in an assessment exercise to guide the Best Practices Network’s next steps!
Jun 11, 2020 | University of Toronto, McGill University, Queen's University, University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University
Transitioning to Remote Health and Wellness Services in Post-Secondary Settings: A Case Study Approach developed by Canadian Best Practices in Higher Education provides a guide to support post-secondary Health & Wellness and Counselling Centres in their transition to providing remote health and wellbeing services to students. This guide is intended for health and mental health clinicians, healthcare administrators, and other stakeholders considering transitioning their services from more traditional models of in-person care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nov 20, 2020 | Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS) Campus Mental Health Community of Practice
Categories: Research & Evaluation - Post-Secondary Surveys
The Campus Mental Health Community of Practice from the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services has been conducting surveys on the evolving needs and trends of post-secondary institution (PSI) counselling centres evolving needs over the past two years and in April 2020, the survey was modified to reflect COVID-19 realities. More than 60 PSIs participated in this survey, with representation from each of the ten provinces and territories and colleges (24%). The data compares the COVID-19 related challenges with prior data and information from emerging practices at an international level.
This report presents synthesized perspectives of campus mental health service professionals, administrations and student affairs administrators on crisis management, how to respond to most vulnerable students, ensuring accessibility, inclusion and ethos of social justice from multiple perspectives.