Hello to the Wilkes Campus Community! Happy New Year and Happy Fall Semester!<\/p>\n
I hope you all had a good summer!\u00a0 This message is for those who are not yet members of the Green Bandana Project but may have an interest in becoming part of this initiative! (Members \u2013 there is other messaging coming to you on Wilkes Today and email soon)!\u00a0 But for now, for us all:<\/p>\n
A new semester can be both exhilarating and STRESSFUL \u2013 we all need to be invested in our own self-care.\u00a0 YOU MATTER \u2013 YOUR MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS!\u00a0 And what helps if we feel we are struggling \u2013 the first thing is for any of us to SEEK HELP (like at our Counseling Center or at another local counseling or therapy service provider.\u00a0 WHERE DO WE ENCOURAGE GETTING HELP?\u00a0 Through campus messaging from Student Life (focus on wellness), and around select supports \u2013 including information obtained through members of THE GREEN BANDANA PROJECT!\u00a0 If you did not know but wondered \u201cwhat are those green bandanas on backpacks all about\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0 This support initiative and the hope of our current members is to encourage those in our campus community to SEEK HELP when their mental health is in question.\u00a0 THE GREEN BANDANA PROJECT (GBP) as a campus support has the goal of promoting \u00a0mental wellness amongst us all and to push back on stigma toward people with mental illness.\u00a0 Further, the GBP aims to provide the subtle but strong message around our presence \u2013 the multitude of green bandanas seen on campus is powerful and sends the message that no one is alone when struggling with mental health – \u00a0others care!<\/p>\n
What do members of the GBP have?\u00a0 Messaging cards with information \u2013 information directing anyone who may be struggling with mental health challenges \u00a0to seek help!\u00a0 When you become a member, you get 3 \u00a0cards linked to Wilkes resources around mental health and suicide prevention which you will share with others in the community who may be in need of help!\u00a0 \u00a0These messaging cards are cross-linked to Student Life and the Counseling Center weblinks addressing wellness and mental health \u2013 and refer to our affiliation at Wilkes with the Green Bandana Project, a national initiative!\u00a0 As a member, YOU BECOME\u00a0 an important part of this mental health support \u2013 and of our \u201carmy of (MENTAL HEALTH) advocates\u201d!<\/p>\n
INFORMATION for sign up \u2013 Green Bandana Project TRAININGS for Fall 26:<\/p>\n
DATES: Starting on September 10th<\/sup> then on the 15, 24th<\/sup>, and 29th<\/sup>, THEN on October 8th<\/sup> and 13th<\/sup> \u00a0for first half of the spring semester in SLC 130 at 5 PM (for an hour) \u2013 GBP orientation and QPR suicide prevention training.\u00a0 See the attached QR code for signing up and here also is a link to the same survey: https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/WDLHP5B<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello to the Wilkes Campus Community! Happy New Year and Happy Fall Semester! I hope you all had a good summer!\u00a0 This message is for those who are not yet members of the Green Bandana Project but may have an interest in becoming part of this initiative! (Members \u2013 there is other messaging coming to… Read More »Mental Health Matters! Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention – GREEN BANDANA PROJECT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34146,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34134\/revisions\/34146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}