Kathleen, you are doing great work out at UW! So excited to see this entry! I'm curious to hear more about how you think your programming needs to be specifically tailored to address the 'cowboy up' culture at UW. What do you and the students include in your programming efforts to specifically address the campus culture at UW? I hope you are able to find funding and administrative support for your very important work! - Sara Abelson, Active Minds Inc.
Thanks for your kind comment Sara. We are in the process right now of gaining recognition by the UW community. As a result, we are planning to hold a mental health awareness contest in the student newspaper once a month that students can submit their correct answers to the library to enter a contest to win a gift certificate. Changing the culture of rugged individualism is hard and we will be targeting the faculty next in our plans to educate them on mental illnesses. We will focus on how 1 in 4 of us can end up having to manage a mental illness. This statistic does not discriminate among cowboys or cowgirls and it seems that if we provide the needed support, our individualism can prosper rather than allow the illness to "own us" rather than us "owning it". I would like for us to see the positive side to "owning" the mental illness and allowing us to allow creativity and inclusiveness to flourish.
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Kathleen, you are doing great work out at UW! So excited to see this entry! I'm curious to hear more about how you think your programming needs to be specifically tailored to address the 'cowboy up' culture at UW. What do you and the students include in your programming efforts to specifically address the campus culture at UW? I hope you are able to find funding and administrative support for your very important work! - Sara Abelson, Active Minds Inc.
Thanks for your kind comment Sara. We are in the process right now of gaining recognition by the UW community. As a result, we are planning to hold a mental health awareness contest in the student newspaper once a month that students can submit their correct answers to the library to enter a contest to win a gift certificate. Changing the culture of rugged individualism is hard and we will be targeting the faculty next in our plans to educate them on mental illnesses. We will focus on how 1 in 4 of us can end up having to manage a mental illness. This statistic does not discriminate among cowboys or cowgirls and it seems that if we provide the needed support, our individualism can prosper rather than allow the illness to "own us" rather than us "owning it". I would like for us to see the positive side to "owning" the mental illness and allowing us to allow creativity and inclusiveness to flourish.
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