Even among peer counseling groups designed to aid students with mental health concerns, information about services available through the school is “not consistently known” and the report recommended more stable mentoring and supervision of these groups, along with a reevalution of their utilization.

Among graduate students, knowledge of Mental Health Services at UHS and the Bureau of Study Counsel’s services is also inconsistent and should be improved through the establishment of a working group.

“Some [graduate schools] have very well established mental health and academic support services, while others have virtually none,” the report stated.

The draft report also said that most international students, who represent 25 to 50 percent of the graduate student body, “find the process of adaptation very challenging” and that efforts to “demystify” UHS and ease the transition must be implemented.

The report concluded that moving forward, Barreira should convene an advisory group composed of students, faculty, administrators, residential staff, and academic support and mental health practitioners to keep him informed about mental health on campus and to vet new options to improve the system.

The primary goals Barreira identified in March for this section of the report all appeared in the final version.

“There’s a number of things we’ll be looking at: residential life, how to get information to students, how to have the right people to be there to help students and understand if they need help,” Barreira said in March. “The international student population is really something that needs addressing.”

—Staff writer Katharine A. Kaplan can be reached at kkaplan@fas.harvard.edu.