RCC receives $250,000 Grant to Help Improve Your Mental Health and Wellness
Did you know young adults, age 18-25, are considered “high risk” for mental health distress and thoughts of suicide? It can be overwhelming to maintain all the pressures of job, life and relationships while attending college and RCC Health & Psychological Services wants to help students manage the stress and be successful in school and life.
The campus-based mental health grant awarded to RCC by California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) will allow RCC to focus on promoting, providing and enhancing mental health resources and support for students. What does that mean for you (the student)?
- Video Contests with $1,000 scholarship to the winning student(s)
- Art and Design contests for student with scholarship awards
- Free trainings with incentives on how to help yourself and others struggling with mental health distress or illness
- Promoting the student voice on the issue of mental health and related stigmas
- Scholarships for serving as Mental Health Ambassadors for the program
- A comprehensive Mental Health website with all program related events, information, resources, opportunities, guidelines and education materials and videos for student use
- Free events, activities and mental health fairs with food and giveaways for students interested in learning the importance of maintaining good mental “health”
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Be a part of this life-enhancing and life-saving program by:
- SIGN-UP to be on the RCC Mental Health Awareness distribution list. We will go to you first with all upcoming events and information!
- Watch your RCC Student emails for upcoming events, contests, trainings, mental health fairs, in-class presentations, and mental health workshops and then COME and PARTICIPATE!
- Become a student Mental Health Ambassador. For more information on how to apply, click here.
- Get help, if you need it! Contact Student Health & Psychological Services so we can give you the information you need.
- Sign up for a class on mental health and receive an incentive for attending.
- Tell your story! (I’m interested in sharing my experience with mental health related events in my life).
- Request to be a part of the Grant’s Regional Advisory Board, where you would represent the needs of the RCC student body.
- Visit and/or Join RCC’s Active Minds club.
- Ask your faculty staff members how they are involved. Encourage them to sign up for training on helping students.
- Start a conversation about mental health with your friends or a counselor.
- Tell your club(s) about the grant program and ask how they can help promote mental health awareness
- Out THINK us! If you have an idea on how we can better reach students, we want to hear it! Bring your creative ideas to Health Services or contact Angela Boland.
- Listen to and be sensitive to friends who need to talk seriously about it. Here is a general "guide" provided by our neighboring community on how to approach friends. Feel free to browse this very helpful website.
If you would like information on how to become a Student Mental Health Ambassador, click Here!
If you have further questions about how you can become involved, please contact the grant Director of Peer-to-Peer Support, Angela Boland at 951-222-8151 or angela.boland@rcc.edu. Here’s to good health!
“Compassion. Action. Change.” express the organization’s belief that our programs and services embrace and nurture mental wellness in all Californians, that our processes are collaborative and community-oriented, and that we are accountable for results.
Funded by the voter approval Mental Health Services Act (Prop. 63).
The California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) is an organization of county governments working to improve mental health outcomes for individuals, families and communities. Prevention and Early Intervention programs implemented by CalMHSA are funded through the voter-approved Mental Health Services Act (Prop 63). Prop 63 provides the funding and framework needed to expand mental health services to previously underserved populations and all of California’s diverse communities.
