No Stigma November 2024
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.
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.
All community members can support campus mental health initiatives by:
- Buying a Stronger as a Pack T-shirt:
- Donating to the Strengthening the Pack Giving Page
