PARENT AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS
PARTNERING WITH YOUR COLLEGE ST UDENT
Successfully parenting a college student requires effectively listening, praying, and encouraging your student's resiliency.
Successfully encouraging your student’s resiliency — the capacity to quickly recover from a challenge or difficulty — requires effectively listening and then partnering with them in prayer.
► The CARE Team — Promotes the health and safety of the student body through threat assessment and case management services, and provides access to available supportive resources on and off campus
We are not suggesting that dropping off your student at college means that you are no longer connected to them. Quite the contrary is true. You continue to work, guide, lead, and pray for their success as they aim for their highest calling in Jesus Christ. In that way, we encourage you to continue the process of releasing responsibility for the outcomes in your student’s life to them and to others. Allow us to suggest two essential ways to release your student:
► CASAS Advising Success — Helps students find answers and solve problems by connecting them to appropriate university resources
1. Release your student to the Lord As your student leaves home, there is a natural tendency to want to take control. We call it “staying invested” to rationalize our talk and behavior, but in truth, making decisions for them falsely soothes our own concerns that they are ready for this new chapter and that they will be okay. If you have been praying for the adult that God has designed your student to become, then this is the season of their life that you have been waiting to see. The Lord knows all the details in their lives, all the ways in which they will grow to love Him more, and you can trust Him to complete what He has started in them.
2. Release your student to Liberty University We know that you care about your student, and so do we. Liberty has plans, services, resources, and support for your student. In addition to faculty who will pray with and for your student, Liberty is staffed by compassionate professionals in a variety of departments. The following list shows only nine of the many departments available to assist your student’s spiritual, physical, mental, and social well-being.
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► LU Shepherd — Fosters spiritual growth and community though the ministry of pastors, resident shepherds, and community group leaders ► Office of Community Life — Helps students live in community through the process of conflict resolution, restorative practices, student discipline, and student development ► Office of Disability Accommodation Support — Arranges reasonable accommodations and program access to students with documented disabilities and temporary medical conditions ► Office of Equity & Compliance — Ensures there are safe learning, living, and working environments for all members of our campus community ► Office of Residence Life — Provides daily guidance and assistance to students in residence halls through strategically positioned resident directors (RDs) and resident assistants (RAs) ► Office of Student Life — Serves commuter students by connecting them to one another and university resources ► Student Counseling Services — Provides free, confidential, professional counseling services for residential students
