After meeting with Ms. Moore two times this month, per her advice I've found a slightly different way in which I can develop a mental health curriculum, or now what I think is more accuretaly called a mental wellness program and environment.
In this blog post I can only speak about the development in vague terms because it is still under wraps at school. In general, I will be focusing more on researching and developing ways in which Emma Willard can create an environment to ensure mental wellness. Ms. Moore and I agreed that attemtping to squeeze in more mental health education into the sophomore health class presented too many conflicts with the other curriculum in the health class. In my mind, at least 2 weels (4 classes+homework)should have been devoted to mental illness, while currently it is only 2-3 classes. Although I will be interested to see what happens when the Mental Health Education in Schools bill goes into effect in 2018! That all being said, I may still try to expand the curriculum in a more doable way; I read an amazing book about mental illness over break called Challenger Deep (recommended by Ms. A), which dismantled a lot of the myths surrodning mental illness and also develed into stigma and self-stigma. It would be wonderful if every sophomore had it as summer reading for the class... and if not, perhaps I could run a book club discussion on it during spring semester.
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. -Bill Clinton
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