{"id":2778,"date":"2020-06-26T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2020-08-17T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T01:04:20","slug":"a-student-led-mental-health-promotion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2020\/06\/26\/a-student-led-mental-health-promotion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"A student-led mental health promotion project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just want to give readers of the blog a heads-up on a cool project that will be taking shape in the second half of this year (2020).<\/p>\n<p>I attended an online meeting on Wednesday with some of the Wellbeing Ambassadors, Student Council members and staff and we chatted about a student-led mental health promotion project for this year.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know yet what that project will be, what it will look like, but we have a very good team assembled.<\/p>\n<p>We have people from the highly successful <a href=\"https:\/\/fusa.edu.au\/babh\/\">Be a Better Human<\/a> Campaign.<\/p>\n<p>We have <a href=\"https:\/\/oasis.flinders.edu.au\/wellbeing-ambassador-program\/\">Wellbeing Ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fusa.edu.au\/studentcouncil\/\">Student Council<\/a> members who will meet regularly to create a vision for what the project will be.<\/p>\n<p>And we have staff members from designers, psychologists, managers and expert communicators to help bring that student vision to life.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I telling you about a project that has no shape yet?<\/p>\n<p>Because you might have some ideas. You may have some thoughts on what is needed to raise the mental health of the Flinders Community.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think we need to be promoting to the wider student (and staff) community about mental health during this very strange time in history?<\/p>\n<p>What has been helping you cope, and would telling others about that be helpful to them?<\/p>\n<p>So who should you send those ideas to?<\/p>\n<p>Well you can start with me (<a href=\"mailto:gareth.furber@flinders.edu.au\">gareth.furber@flinders.edu.au<\/a>) and I&#8217;ll forward to the students.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, when the project is starting to take shape, I&#8217;ll provide some more direct contacts so you can have your say on what you&#8217;d like to see in a university-wide campaign on the topic of mental health.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be blogging the development of the project on here, so you get a back-stage pass to how these projects take shape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I just want to give readers of the blog a heads-up on a cool project that will be taking shape in the second half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":2779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4770,81,23,11340],"tags":[10768,1011,10767,6543,1012,7112,10766,5232],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disability-news","category-flinders-services-and-programs","category-mental-health","category-student-led","tag-campaign","tag-fusa","tag-marketing","tag-mental-health-promotion","tag-oasis","tag-student-council","tag-student-led","tag-wellbeing-ambassadors"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}