One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create campaign posters that encourage students to support their own and their friends' mental health & raise awareness of the issue of student suicide with @theCALMzone @ChasingStigma @TheSocialChain & StudentProblems.com #StudentProblems #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
Having spoken at events about Mental Health recently and seen the amazing job @DominicMcGregor is doing to generate conversation around the subject, we have decided to collaborate on today's brief during #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and we want the message to reach as far wide as possible so please get involved. And remember to Retweet as much as you can... who knows... it could save lives!
Tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs with the hashtags #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #StudentProblems Include @theCALMzone @TheSocialChain @ChasingStigma in your tweets too.
Create campaign posters that encourage students to support their own and their friends' mental health & raise awareness of the issue of student suicide with @theCALMzone @ChasingStigma @TheSocialChain & StudentProblems.com #StudentProblems #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
Having spoken at events about Mental Health recently and seen the amazing job @DominicMcGregor is doing to generate conversation around the subject, we have decided to collaborate on today's brief during #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and we want the message to reach as far wide as possible so please get involved. And remember to Retweet as much as you can... who knows... it could save lives!
Tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs with the hashtags #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #StudentProblems Include @theCALMzone @TheSocialChain @ChasingStigma in your tweets too.
Feel free to tag in any celebs etc or do what you can to get these messages shared!! Just remember to avoid depiction of suicide methods and gloomy pictures of people with their head in hands. We want this to be a positive message!!
About the problem:
Prizes for the winning idea:
- OMB Tee-Shirt
- CALM Tee-shirt and goody bag
- Potential to have your idea created and featured in Universities nationwide.
- Potential to have your idea created and featured in Universities nationwide.
- Social Chain Merchandise
- The chance to spend time with Social Chain mentor...possibly leading to interview/internship!
- Chasing the Stigma Tee-shirt
- Chasing the Stigma Tee-shirt
About the problem:
Universities have a suicide problem, researchers have said, as a study shows that the number of students taking their own lives has overtaken the general population for the first time.
Research by independent researchers found that the suicide rate among UK students had risen by 56 per cent in the 10 years between 2007 and 2016, from from 6.6 to 10.3 per 100,000 people.
The student suicide rate in 2016 was 9 per cent higher than in 2015 and 25 per cent higher than 2012, when it was 8.3.
ONS figures show that the average suicide rate among the general population of 15-19 year olds was 5.9, while the rate for 20-24 year-olds was 10.4.
"This is the first time we can conclusively say that as far as suicide is concerned, there is a real problem in higher education.”
Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham and a campaigner on student well-being, told the BBC: "Student suicide rates and emotional distress levels could be reduced at university if we acted differently.
"More support in transitions, better tutoring and early warning, more peer to peer support, an enhanced sense of belonging, would all enhance wellbeing and reduce risk.
"We are obsessed by reactive policy once students hit the bottom of the waterfall; we need to be putting preventative policies in place to prevent them ever tipping over the edge."
Good luck with today's brief and we hope you can help us spread a very important message across the world with today's brief. Thank you.
Research by independent researchers found that the suicide rate among UK students had risen by 56 per cent in the 10 years between 2007 and 2016, from from 6.6 to 10.3 per 100,000 people.
The student suicide rate in 2016 was 9 per cent higher than in 2015 and 25 per cent higher than 2012, when it was 8.3.
ONS figures show that the average suicide rate among the general population of 15-19 year olds was 5.9, while the rate for 20-24 year-olds was 10.4.
"This is the first time we can conclusively say that as far as suicide is concerned, there is a real problem in higher education.”
Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham and a campaigner on student well-being, told the BBC: "Student suicide rates and emotional distress levels could be reduced at university if we acted differently.
"More support in transitions, better tutoring and early warning, more peer to peer support, an enhanced sense of belonging, would all enhance wellbeing and reduce risk.
"We are obsessed by reactive policy once students hit the bottom of the waterfall; we need to be putting preventative policies in place to prevent them ever tipping over the edge."
Good luck with today's brief and we hope you can help us spread a very important message across the world with today's brief. Thank you.