September: Begin creation of the “club in a box”, find routes for recruiting members
October: recruit student leaders, get in contact with interested students November: Run leadership training day, provide students with materials December: Ensure that each club will be established in schools through contact with school administrators January: Establish clubs in additional schools, keep in contact with leaders, determine specific use of funds (if grant is approved) February: Suggest events for clucs (such as for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week in February), distribute funding (if grant is approved) March: Ensure that grant money is being used appropriately (if grant is approved), meet with club leaders to discuss progress, suggest activities for May Mental Health Month April: Have sustainability conversations with each club to ensure continuance and new club leadership (schedule another leadership training day), prepare Signature presentation May: Run additional leadership training for 2017-2018 school year, present Signature project In addition, I hope to coordinate with NAMI Northern California and Baltimore who both have recently independently established their own NAMI high school programs so that we may consolidate our resources (and I hope to have this done in the fall).
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Hello blog readers! You may have already read my blog posts from last year, but I will be continuing to update this blog with my work on my second Signature, which builds off of the work I completed last year. If this is your first time on the blog, my name is Katherine Wallace and I am a senior at Emma Willard School. My Signature last year was centered around developing a club model in association with the National Alliance on Mental Illness in order to increase awareness and decrease the stigma surrounding mental illness. This year, I'll be continuing this work by running NAMI@Emma, but I'll also be involved in expanding the club to other schools in the Capital Region. Hopefully we can get branches of the club started in three other schools, and I'll be centering my work on both engaging other student leaders in various schools, and equipping them with resources and leadership skills so that their clubs may achieve success.
I care so deeply about this issue because of my family’s history with mental illness, and the hardships I have seen lessened in our lives because of our support for each other. I want to ensure that no one living with a mental illness lacks this care because of the stigma. |
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. -Bill Clinton
Katherine WallaceEmma Willard Class of 2017. Archives
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