Visting Healthy Minds-Healthy Campuses
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Where
- Wednesday August 18, 2010 11:00 PDT 18:00 GMT (your time zone)
- Adobe Connect (Note different venue this time)
What
People gathered around Healthy Minds - Healthy Campuses community, a community of practice to promote campus mental health. Includes face-to-face interactions, synchronous online events, and an online forum.
Healthy Minds - Healthy Campuses is a community of practice with the goal of promoting peer-to-peer learning about issues related to campus mental health and healthy substance use amongst British Columbia post-secondary students.
Members include students, professors, counsellors, human rights advisors, disability advocates, administrators, residence life staff, and researchers.
Tour Guide: Jonny Morris, Project Coordinator
How Jonny got involved:
"My journey into the field of mental health and suicide prevention started ten years ago in the UK - precipitated by the tragic loss of a young person in my community to suicide. I decided to get involved with my local crisis line and so started my participation in suicide prevention efforts.
I moved to University of Victoria at 18 to start my undergrad in marine biology, having decided I wanted to swim with dolphins and orcas. I quickly decided this wasn't the field for me and switched over to Child and Youth Care. My involvement with the crisis line movement continued, and I started delivering suicide prevention curricula to high school youth in Victoria. I also had the opportunity to work as a Resident Advisor which afforded me an intimate insight into the reality of anxiety, depression, unhealthy substance use amongst students. All of these experiences foregrounded the beginnings of the Inter-Campus Suicide Prevention Action Group at UVic/Camosun - and my foray into broad-based, community driven & owned mental health promotion/suicide prevention strategies (what a mouthful!) And that's how I ended up at the February workshop - and my introduction to this fabulous caring community and the BC Campus Project. As of now, I'm working on my MA in Child and Youth Care with a particular interest in student mental health promotion and community development."
Community comparison framework
- Content: What explicit knowledge objects such as documents or video clips are created or shared in this community?
- Connections: What interpersonal contacts between community members (e.g., that facilitate relationship-building between community members) can you observe?
- Conversation: what face-to-face or online conversations are going on?
- Context: what context gives meaning to the content, connections and conversations in this community?
- Purpose: what is the reason for which the members come together in this community?
More about the C4P (see description and references)
What next?
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