“Mental Health Literacy: Building a Capacity for Change”
Attention graduate students!
“Mental Health Literacy: Building a Capacity for Change”
March 22nd, 2022 @1pm-3pm.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83388652234?pwd=ZGR0L3VPazQyVGxJekdVMlY4LyttZz09
This initiative is sponsored by York University's Graduate Student Wellness Services and aims to increase the awareness of the mental health struggles graduate students have been facing, which have been amplified by COVID-19. In the first phase of this workshop series held in January 2022, graduate student mental health consumers and their peers indicated that there was a need to design a professional development training initiative which could be useful for professors and administrators. This workshop provides graduate students the opportunity to co-design a sensitivity training, ‘mental health literacy’, workshop for course instructors, administrators, and peers about mental health stigma; barriers in accessing mental health services and accommodations; and basic mental health literacy. Using a strengths-based approach, mental health consumers who are also graduate students will have the opportunity to contribute towards meaningful engagement towards social change and reducing institutional structural barriers within academic settings.
