CFJC Midday - Oct 03 - TRU Showing Movies for Mental Health

welcome back coming up October 5th which

I believe is in just two days TR U is

hosting movies for mental health this is

a special evening it takes place in the

Irving K Barbour Center here to talk to

us about it we have Chelsea Corsi with

who's with the Wellness Center and Kim

Meyerhoff who is a fourth year nursing

student

great to have you guys here thank you

for having us first of all Kim your ass

nursing student how are you involved in

this I'm working with Chelsea at the

Wellness Center this semester as a

fourth year practicum student mm-hmm so

I'm helping with like arranging events

and helping develop naloxone dispensary

at tier you mm-hmm and yeah those are

just part of my roles that's awesome

yeah and I don't know much about the

Wellness Center maybe we can start with

that sure is it about well I've been on

campus actually for 13 years so I'm

holes with in what's called Casa

counseling academic supports an

assessment department and my role really

is to provide health promotion and loss

prevention opportunities education for

students and employees so I do

one-to-one health consultations with

students for example we had a student in

who's overwhelmed with all you know

she's an international student kind of

overwhelmed with the change like

homesick lonely trying to help her you

know manage some of those cope with

those stresses I do workshops on campus

so yesterday I was with our animal

health technology students talking about

stress kind of that timing year midterms

papers are starting and I call September

the honeymoon month so the honeymoons

over and now they're getting really

having to get to work this is an example

the movies for mental health I do

campus-wide events so throughout the

year we do big events to engage the

whole campus we have a student wellness

ambassador team so this year there's 12

students working with me who actually

help me run the Wellness Center we

actually have a space where students can

come hang out talk to a peer grab some

tea we have bean bags in the hallways

they can relax

I also working with Kim who's working on

some mental health and substance use

programming with me mm-hmm and then I do

kind of dabble in other things on campus

trying to be you know raise the issue of

health and well-being for the whole

campus so tell me a little bit about

movies for mental health

taking place Thursday night yes Thursday

what is it all about obviously you're

promoting a mental wellness and to have

people sort of band together exactly

well as we know mental health impacts

all of us in our communities and our

families and on campus for sure and so

this is our Mental Health Awareness Week

we try to do a week every year we also

do stress Buster's and that's their kind

of more fun activities to reduce stress

but you know sometimes mental health is

hard to talk about there's a lot of

stigma and usually if someone is to

experience an episode of you know low

mood depression anxiety or another

mental illness it usually happens in

late adolescence early adulthood so it

releases the population coming to

university I thought we're trying to

target and so this event is partnership

with art with impact which is a national

kind of group who really tries to make

talking about mental health accessible

by using social media using films like

using art as kind of a vehicle to

discuss topics that have a lot of stigma

and are you know taboo sometimes yes so

did the movies themselves center around

this topic yep so the event is actually

really cool I'm really excited that

they're coming what they do is they

actually have it's called all of film

contests

so now I'd leave from art with impact

wanted me to tell everyone if you're a

filmmaker out there or involved in art

they have a monthly contest so you can

submit a five-minute movie around mental

health and submit it to art with impact

org and they they have a winner every

month so which is cool is that they show

they pick three films so we introduce

everyone and they pick three short films

that are five minutes approximately and

we actually discuss and have a dialogue

about each film and then the cool part

is at the end of that we actually have a

panel of students and community

professionals to talk about their role

in the community if they're professional

or if they're a student their experience

with mental health struggles and

challenges but what they've done to kind

of help cope and and you know get better

went on so it's awesome because I think

when students hear from other students

it allows them you know opportunity to

feel like they're not alone

and and gives them a chance to sit to

reflect on themselves and you know one

of the students actually who is gonna be

on the panel said it took for another

student in one of her classes to talk

about her own struggles with mental

health and she thought wow I'm not the

only one I want to give back to the

community so I really admire the

students for coming for it it's really

courageous

and very vulnerable of them to share

their stories I think it's the hardest

time in your life is to come forward

about something like that and be

vulnerable in your adolescence and talk

about that stuff but if other people are

doing it I think this is the perfect

opportunity right we have about 30

seconds any final thoughts on do you

just show up show up at by 30 to 7:30

and I think it'll be a really powerful

evening so you know we watched some of

the films and I mean okay you can see

kind of what you thought about what you

saw

yeah they kind of just tug at your

heartstrings and really show you what

mental health is and just the aspects

around creating dialogue and reducing

stigma and yeah they're very good that's

awesome

all right you guys thank you for being

here we got a good glimpse into what

this night is all about it's about not

being afraid to come forward and share

in what your struggles are there'll be

other people there as well going through

similar things

October 5th 5:30 urban kay barber Center

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