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!