Welcome Again and IAL Info Video

Hello,

If you are new into reading this blog, my name is Alex Sweeney and I was the Inclusion Advancement Liaison (IAL) from September 2013 to April 2014. In the past, I had made a focus to complete two campaigns that focused on making awareness about disabilities at the Mount. From October to November, I led in an Autism and General Disabilities campaign on campus through blog posts that addressed information as well as putting on a couple of improvisational comedy nights. In January, my team, which consisted of learning strategist Michelle Greencorn, VP Advocacy of the MSVU Students' Union, Justin Corcoran and fellow students Monica and Leslie, joined me in a video project that asked students about their views on mental health as our way of taking part in Bell's Let's Talk Day.

My final project was to highlight the position of the IAL and what this person does by looking through the past two holders of that position as well as members of the recent team to share about their thoughts on the position. This allowed us to display this position and explain it to students and faculty who have never heard of it before. You can now find the video here, and I hope that you enjoy what these people had to say.

Take care and welcome to the new year!

Intro Video - Behind the Scenes

Here's a quick behind the scenes look at the editing process for our upcoming video to be launched later this semester.

Stay Tuned...

Hi everyone,

We're not ignoring the "public", but we are working on a new video. It's going to talk about something that many of the students and faculty at the Mount are probably not familiar with, but we'll be fixing that soon. The video will be out hopefully in late March, so stay tuned as it will appear here.

Thank you,

Alex Sweeney
Inclusion Advancement Liaison 2013-14

Let's Talk about Mental Health

We all hear about it during our life, but what surprises me is that not everyone realizes that having mental illness can be classified as a disability. At the Mount, we are able to accommodate for such problems, just like how we would with other disabilities. This is something that I find to be awesome about this campus.

Last week, we at the Inclusion Advancement team asked students, faculty and staff what mental health meant to them and recorded the responses on video. We have premiered the video earlier this afternoon as part of our mental health campaign. Since today is Bell Let's Talk Day for 2014, we decided to take part in our own way without making official ties with Bell Canada (perhaps another year, maybe?). Below, you can find the video we produced on campus.

In order to end the stigma surrounding mental illness, we need to reach out and help those who are suffering from it. We hope that this video helps to inspire people and spark up conversations about mental health at the Mount campus. The campus also offers counselling services inside Evaristus Hall. For more information, please check out:

Counselling Services: msvu.ca/counselling | (902) 457-6567
Disability Services: msvu.ca/disabilityservices | (902) 457-6323
Bell Let's Talk: bell.ca/letstalk

Let's Talk!

Greetings, Mount students, and welcome to the new year of 2014 (even though I'm late in saying that)!

Bell Let's Talk Day is Tuesday, January 28th, and to help it out on this campaign in Halifax, we at the Inclusion Advancement team are planning to work on a video throughout the next two weeks and launch it on that day. If you'd like to join in on our video project, please feel free to contact me (Inclusion Advancement Liaison), Justin Corcoran (Vice President Advocacy) or Michelle Greencorn (MSVU Disability Services).

Take care!