Student Health and Wellness is celebrating #NoStigmaNovember.  To stop the stigma around struggling with mental health and to normalize help-seeking behaviour, we need a whole campus approach. We are encouraging all members of the Lakehead community to take action to support their own mental health and to create a campus culture that supports one another and encourages those to get help when needed.

Students can take part by:

• Attending Stop The Stigma events throughout the month

• Sharing their own experience with mental health and taking action to support their well-being as part of the Stop the Stigma Student Story Campaign

• Learning how to support others at Wolves Watch: Supporting Your Pack

• Checking in with their mental health by using the WellU Key and making use of the supports and resources available to them

• Thunder Bay Only- Attending the Stronger as Pack Night on November 29 and rally our community around supporting student mental health and encouraging all Thunderwolves to take action to support their own mental health and get help when needed

Lakehead Staff and Faculty can take part by:

• Supporting their well-being by practicing self-care. Faculty/staff well-being is integral to overall campus health as well as the capacity to engage others in well-being practices. There are many actions you can take to make your mental health a priority and resources are available to you as a Lakehead staff or faculty member.

• Boost your mental health literacy by completing Supporting Students in Distress training, or by taking SafeTalk.

• Promote mental health resources in your spaces, meetings, websites, email signatures, etc.

• Making a personal pledge to support mental health and reducing stigma on campus on our padlet 

• Encourage students to use the WellU Key to learn more about areas of well-being that may be affecting them and resources for support

• Download the Stop the Stigma toolkit for resources and strategies that Lakehead faculty and staff can adopt and practice in their own spaces or request the Stop the Stigma workshop for your team. 

Any Lakehead community member can support student mental health initiatives by purchasing a "Stronger as Pack" T-shirt before November 15.

• Thunder Bay Online Store

• Orillia online store

Do you want to share your own experience with mental health? Submit your story.

Stopping the stigma of struggling with mental health and normalizing seeking help when needed is a whole campus initiative. Download the toolkit for resources and strategies that Lakehead faculty and staff can adopt and practice in their own spaces.

If you have other suggestions or have your own strategies that you would like to suggest, please email Lindsey Wachter.