There are lots of different ways you can get involved and use your voice this University Mental Health Day.
We’ve got some tips to help get you started:
We’ve got some tips to help get you started:
- Hear more about why you should use your voice
- Sign up for a resource pack and check out our downloadable resources
- Take a look at our map to see what events are happening near you
- Organise an event or plan activities to inspire people at your university
- Check out the power that students and staff using their voices have had here
- Go online, take to social media and use your voice by using #UniMentalHealthDay
1) Share your experiences in a blog
Writing your story is an incredibly powerful way to inspire and influence others. If you have a story to tell, we want to hear it!
Let us know how you have used your own mental health experiences and your voice to effect change on campus. Both small successes and big wins - we’re here to shine a spotlight on you!
Submit your blog post here and we’ll work with you to get your voice heard.
Let us know how you have used your own mental health experiences and your voice to effect change on campus. Both small successes and big wins - we’re here to shine a spotlight on you!
Submit your blog post here and we’ll work with you to get your voice heard.
2) Post on social media this University Mental Health Day
Craft your own 280 character campaign by taking to social media to share how and why you are going to use your voice to shape the future of student mental health.
Short on time? We’ve got you covered. Use our template social media posts to show your support:
Don’t forget to use #UniMentalHealthDay in any posts and check out our social media images!
Short on time? We’ve got you covered. Use our template social media posts to show your support:
- I am using my voice to shape the future of student mental health! #UniMentalHealthDay
- I’m using my voice to shape the future of student mental health because… (insert personal reason) #UniMentalHealthDay
Don’t forget to use #UniMentalHealthDay in any posts and check out our social media images!
3) Run events on your campus
There are lots of ways to get creative and bring people together to use their voices, here are a few to get you started:
- Get students and staff to write down how they are going to use their voice and pin these up to make a collage of how people on your campus are going to create change. This will help inspire others and show there is an amazing number of people who want to shape the future of student mental health at your university.
- Get students and staff to answer this statement “I am using my voice to improve student mental health because…” on a whiteboard and take pictures and share them on social media using #UniMentalHealthDay to create visual pledges from your campus.
- Run a speaker event, this is a great way for people to publicly use their voice and share their mental health experiences to change perceptions of student mental health.
- Encourage students on your campus to utilise their talents, such as sharing their experiences through poetry or painting
4) Run a listening event
Listening events are important tools to help us to understand the issues and challenges more broadly, so we can act in an informed and strategic way. Gain perspective and find out more about how students and staff really feel about the issue. Ask questions about support, community, learning and living on your campus. Please email campaigns@studentminds.org.uk to find out more about organising a listening event, and for support running one on your campus.
If you are not able to run a listening event you could run a survey to find out more about the experience on your campus and how you can improve student mental health and wellbeing.
If you are not able to run a listening event you could run a survey to find out more about the experience on your campus and how you can improve student mental health and wellbeing.
5) Lobby a senior leader at your university
Encourage your vice chancellor, a senior leader or chancellor of the university to share what they are doing to improve student mental health and wellbeing on your campus, and how they are going to involve and listen to students in this.
Arrange a meeting with a senior leader to help inform the university’s plan and develop your approach together, you can find more information on how to do this in our Co-production Guide. By students and staff working in partnership, we can create meaningful and lasting change.
Arrange a meeting with a senior leader to help inform the university’s plan and develop your approach together, you can find more information on how to do this in our Co-production Guide. By students and staff working in partnership, we can create meaningful and lasting change.
6) Take part in the Charter survey
We want to hear what you think are the biggest challenges facing student and staff mental health and the change you want to see. Fill in the University Mental Health Charter survey by the 7th of April.
There are lots of ways to get involved this University Mental Health Day, however you do it, make sure you use your voice!
For updates on how other people are using their voice receive live updates by following the hashtag #UniMentalHealthDay. Join us on the 7th of March as we inspire conversations, take action and create change!
For updates on how other people are using their voice receive live updates by following the hashtag #UniMentalHealthDay. Join us on the 7th of March as we inspire conversations, take action and create change!
