Thanks!

Thanks for a great year!

For those of you who missed last week’s member meeting, here is the Ted Talk we watched: http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

Congratulations to Gabrielle Handwerk (Current Program Coordinator/Incoming Co-President), Kristy Gustavson (Current Treasurer/Incoming Co-President), Sara Secada-Lovio (Current/Incoming Secretary) and Lauren Read (Current Active Member/Incoming Undergraduate Liaison) for being elected into your positions for next year!

The incoming executive board will be in touch sometime in the summer regarding next year, with possible meeting dates, meeting topics, and other relevant updates. Good luck with all of your final projects and examinations and have a great summer!

Mental Health Panel

MENTAL HEALTH PANEL: Dispelling Myths, Revealing Truths, Instilling Hope

CLA room 1201, Thursday April 30^th from 7 – 9pm

NAMI on Campus is one of the co-sponsors for this upcoming panel event, titled, “Mental Health Panel: Dispelling Myths, Revealing Truths, Instilling Hope”. This is wonderful opportunity to learn more about mental health from individuals who have experienced challenges related to mental health. Some of their topics will include: depression, anxiety, trauma, schizophrenia, substance use, and LGBT-related challenges. Four panelists have been confirmed for the event.

If you are interested in volunteering at the panel event, please email towsonunami@gmail.com with your interest and arrive at 6:15pm on the day of the event. Membership points will be awarded to volunteers (2) and attendees (1)!!! Promotional materials related to the event are attached to this email. 

Click here to view the event Facebook Link!

 

4/18/2015 NAMI on Campus Updates!

 

Members: VOTE IN OUR ELECTIONS!!! 

Below is a link to our online election poll! There are candidates for our Co-President (2), Secretary, and Undergraduate Liaison position! 

http://goo.gl/forms/4YGBhmoy2I 

OUT OF THE DARKNESS WALK (Sunday, May 3rd)

The Out of the Darkness Walk for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is coming up on Sunday May 3 from 7 - 8:30pm. AFSP promotes advocacy, awareness, and education about suicide prevention. This walk is the perfect opportunity to participate it a mental illness related event without even having to leave campus. If you'd like to sign up and/or fundraise for the walk, please visit this link. If you are unable to fundraise and just want to come out day of and show your support, feel free to do so! We will have a NAMI team that you can join, so make sure to register under our team and look for emails about meeting up at the walk!

"BRING A FRIEND TO NAMI" (Last) Member Meeting: Wednesday, May 5th at 2:00pm in CLA 3216

Our next member meeting will be on Wednesday, May 5th, at 2:00pm in the College of Liberal Arts building, room CLA 3216. This is our LAST meeting for the semester!!! You can earn an extra membership point and a discount off of your dues for next year if you bring a friend to the meeting!!

4/15 member meeting, elections

MEMBER MEETING: Wednesday 4/15/2015 in CLA 3216

1) We will be viewing a Ted Talk and will have a short discussion about it.

2) Members who are interested in running for e-board positions will speak with members about their interest in the particular position they are applying for (2015 - 2016 school year). More information regarding elections can be found below:

ELECTIONS FOR NEXT YEAR’S EXECUTIVE BOARD!
If you are interested in an executive board position at NAMI on Campus, you are in luck! Elections will be held the dates of 4/15 – 4/22. You can run for the following positions: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Program Coordinator, and Public Relations Coordinator. You must be a current or incoming graduate student at Towson University to run for one of the listed positions. Email towsonunami@gmail.com if you are interested in applying for a position! Please be prepared to speak with members at our next member meeting about your interest in the position (on 4/15 at 2pm in CLA 3216)

UPDATES

4/2 at 12pm: Ted Talk Event (RSVP!!!)
There will be a talk discussion event this Thursday, April 2 at 12:00 pm in the Loch Raven Rooms of the University Union. Free pizza will be provided. We will be watching the talk, "What's so funny about mental illness" by Ruby Wax, participating in a group discussion, and engaging in an advocacy and awareness-raising activity.

We would like a final head count by this Wednesday, so please send RSVP's and any questions to Gabrielle Handwerk,ghandw1@students.towson.edu.


ELECTIONS FOR NEXT YEAR’S EXECUTIVE BOARD!
If you are interested in an executive board position at NAMI on Campus, you are in luck! Elections will be held the dates of 4/15 – 4/22. You can run for the following positions: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Program Coordinator, and Public Relations Coordinator. You must be a current or incoming graduate student at Towson University to run for one of the listed positions. Email towsonunami@gmail.com if you are interested in applying for a position! Please be prepared to speak with members at our next member meeting about your interest in the position (on 4/15 at 2pm in CLA 3216)

Ted Talk Event 4-2!

Upcoming Events

Bystander Intervention Workshop (Member Meeting) 3/26

At our next member meeting in CLA room 3216 on Wednesday 3/25 at 2pm, we will be having a Bystander Intervention workshop, facilitated by a speaker from the Counseling Center's Sexual Assault Peer Education team! As sexual assault is linked to Mental health & illness, this is a great way to learn about sexual assault on campus and what you can do to prevent and deal with issues related to sexual assault on campus.

DSM-LIVE EVENT 4/7

NAMI is partnering with the Counseling Center to host their upcoming event DSM-live! This will be an "around-the-world" interactive event with different disorders stationed in rooms around the Counseling Center. It will take place on Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 pm.

The committee is in need of volunteers to help with giving tours, setting up/tearing down, tabling at the end of the tour, and manning different rooms. If you are interested in signing up for any of these tasks, please email Gabrielle Handwerk at ghandw1@students.towson.edu. Membership points will be given to volunteers.

Spring Ted Talk 4/2

On Thursday, April 2, 2015 from 12pm - 1:30 in Loch Raven (University Union), NAMI on Campus will be hosting a Spring Ted Talk Program related to mental illness! This will be a great opportunity to learn more about mental illness while engaging in meaningful discussion about the TED Talk afterwards. Food will be served at the event!

Hi Members!

2/24/2015 NAMI on Campus Updates

Upcoming Member Meetings:

Member meetings are held monthly at 2pm on Wednesdays in CLA 3216. Below are the upcoming meeting dates:

• 3/25
• 4/15
• 5/6

Make sure to come to the meetings so that you feel even more connected to our student group, and if you have class and have to leave early or come late - that's completely fine (come anyway)!

Living Classrooms (https://www.livingclassrooms.org/)

• Living Classrooms is an education and enrichment program for at-risk children in Baltimore. They have an after-school and supplemental education program that teaches them about health, wellness, the environment, and other topics.
   
• Lesson Plan: We have been planning a lesson for the children on mental health issues (contact gbinns1@students.towson.edu  with interest for that project)
   
• Parent Workshop: We have been asked to host a psycho-/educational workshop on mental illness for the parents of the children at Living Classrooms. The program will be discussing how to talk about and address mental health and concerns with children. It should dovetail nicely with the lesson plan we will be presenting to the students (so that the conversation can get started between both the parents and children instead of just targeting the children with the information and not informing the parents).
• If you are interested in this new project of planning or executing the workshop, please email us at towsonunami@gmail.com!

Member Meeting 2/18:

Our next general member meeting is next Wednesday, February 18^th at 2pm in CLA 3216!  Dr. Kasey Serdar will be speaking to us about Eating Disorders. Dr. Serdar is the Eating Disorder Services Coordinator of the Counseling Center's "The Body Project". The Body Project is a Peer Education Program that is actively changing the ways in which their discussion group feels about their bodies.

My Campus Health (www.mycampushealth.com)

Also, below you will find a flyer for MyCampusHealth.com, which is a website designed by one of our guest speakers who attended the Cultural Diversity Panel. The website is designed to be an online platform for students who wish to exchange stories regarding topics of mental health and wellness. For more information, visit www.mycampushealth.com.

Vice President Position (Graduate Student Position)

Lastly, we have a Vice President position available for Graduate Members! The position is for the remainder of the semester and will help you secure an executive board position for the upcoming year. An e-board position in NAMI on Campus is a great way to gain more experience in the field of mental illness as well as building your leadership and team work skills (i.e. a resume builder!) If you are a graduate student who is interested in being or is currently a member of NAMI on Campus – please email towsonunami@gmail.com with your name, a brief description about yourself/your interests, as well as qualities/experience that would allow you to help NAMI’s continued growth on campus. 

Hi Members!

I hope your semester is off to a wonderful start. I just wanted to remind you all that we have a meeting next Wednesday, February 18th at 2:00pmin room LA 3216.

Our guest speaker is Dr. Kasey Serdar, who is the Eating Disorder Services Coordinator of the Counseling Center's "The Body Project" - which is a Peer Education Program that is actively changing the ways in which their discussion group feels about their bodies.  Dr. Serdar will be speaking on topics related to eating disorders -- as Eating Disorders Awareness Week is from February 22 - 28th.

Also, just a reminder: Our meetings are the following days on Wednesdays at 2pm:

• 3/25
• 4/15
• 5/6 

Have a great week!

-Ryan

Ryan Muffi

NAMI on Campus, Towson University 

Public Relations Coordinator, 2014 - 2015

http://towsonunami.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TowsonUNAMI/

Spring 2015 updates

SPRING SEMESTER 2015 UPDATES:

MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY! We will be having our first member meeting this Wednesday, January 28^th at 2pm. We will be discussing some of our upcoming goals for the semester as well as watching a TED talk related to mental illness and having a discussion about it. You will get an extra membership point if you bring refreshments! – Email towsonunami@gmail.com if you plan on bringing refreshments.

Location: We are in the Liberal Arts building this year! LA 3216

Future Member Meetings:

1/28 (First Member Meeting)

2/18

3/25

4/15 (Elections)

5/6 

TABLING: We will be hosting a tabling event in the University Union in the next couple of weeks (we are aiming for next Monday, February 2^nd or the following Monday, February 9^th.) If you are interested in helping with the event (distributing NAMI on Campus information, talking to interested members, etc.), please email our program coordinator, Gabrielle Handwerk @ ghandw1@students.towson.edu.

MEMBERSHIP FORMS: If you have paid your dues, but have not submitted a Membership Form to us, please do so within the week. The form is attached for those who have paid dues (we have documented who has paid, so don’t worry if you haven’t submitted the form yet!)

Enjoy the first week of classes! Hope to see you this Wednesday at 2pm!

-Ryan Muffi

Pictures from the NAMI on Campus Panel Event: 

Cultural Diversity in the Mental Health Setting

From left to right: Mehwish Qureshi, Flor Giusti, Benjamin McAfee, Cheri Wilson, Yulanda Blackston and Dr. Schmidt (event moderator)

Member Meeting 11/20:

Date/Time: Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, 11/20 from 2:00p.m – 3:00p.m in Lithicum Hall, room LI 0006. 

Theme: The theme of our member meeting will be depression, stress and anxiety. The discussion will be led by Jonathan Schettino from the Counseling Center, who is the Coordinator of Anxiety and Depression Services. We hope to have interactive and/or discussion component to this meeting, so that we can be more engaged on the topics of depression, stress, and anxiety.

Refreshments: We would like to provide light refreshments for the meeting. If you are interested in supplying refreshments (a case of beverages, a large bag of chips, a tray of cookies, etc.), you will receive an additional membership point!

Member Tee-Shirts:

NAMI on Campus at TU would like to have member tee-shirts. We hope to make the tee-shirts for the beginning of next semester. However, we need YOUR help in designing them. If any of you are savvy with creating designs and logos and would like to submit an idea, please email towsonunami@gmail.com for general guidelines regarding the tee-shirts.

Open Executive Board Positions 

Fundraising Coordinator: The fundraising coordinator position is still available for graduate students looking to get more involved this academic year! The position's main tasks are planning fundraising programs and overseeing bank account transactions. If you are interested or want more information on the position, please email towsonunami@gmail.com !

The NAMI executive board would like to present a couple opportunities to you!

Panel Event

The first, is to be a committee member for an upcoming panel on Mental Health. We would like to have a committee of members that would be meeting with our Program Coordinator, Gabrielle Handwerk, to plan the event. The two panels held last year were on experiences with mental health challenges as well as experts in access to services under the Affordable care act. You will have a unique opportunity to work together to plan this even, if you are interested!

**Please email Gabrielle Handwerk, our Programming Coordinator, with your interest at ghandw1@students.towson.edu.

Living Classrooms

The other, which is something that you might have heard about, is our upcoming collaboration with Living Classrooms.

Living classrooms is a Foundation that provides enrichment and after school programs to students who live in Baltimore. The program has its students engaged in hands-on education and learning experiences, such as working with plants and animals on their Harbor East Campus.

Initially, we will be going to their campus two times: 1) To observe the students who we will be working with and 2) to work with children and host an educational session on bullying and working with children with physical and mental health conditions and disabilities. This is educative in nature, so if you are interested, please be prepared to help co-facilitate a discussion on such topics!

**Please email gbinns1@students.towson.edu if you are interested in participating in this opportunity to work with children!

**Please email Gabrielle Handwerk, our Programming Coordinator, with your interest at ghandw1@students.towson.edu.

Hi NAMI Members!

Make sure to get involved with our planned activities!

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

General Member Meeting (DUES ARE DUE) - Thursday, October 16th

• Thursday - October 16th, 2014
• 2:00p.m - 3:00p.m
• Location: Lithicum Hall 0006
• DUES ARE DUE! They are 10$

Hello Current and New Members!!

Our first meeting of the Semester will be on Thursday, September 18th at 2:00p.m!

We will be meeting in Lithicum Hall Room LI 0006 (Right next to the Center for the Liberal Arts and Lecture Hall Buildings). 

Do not miss this wonderful opportunity to get involved in the effort to:

1. Decrease the stigma placed on topics related to mental health

2. Promote an equitable distribution of resource for all individuals

3. Advocate for individuals with mental health concerns!

The chapter meeting is open to all students (and guests) who would like to attend. We will have a meet-and-greet, discussion of our Organization's current objectives, and a talk about the direction we want to take this year!

To join our email ListServ, please email towsonunami@gmail.com!

Facebook us! www.facebook.com/groups/TowsonUNAMI/

@TowsonUNAMI

2014 - 2015 Election Results and OPEN executive board positions!

Hello, Everyone!

The election is over! Our NAMI on Campus at TU's 2014 - 2015 Executive Board is:

Sara McKee, Co-President

Karl Mamaduke, Co-President

Sara Secada-Lovio, Secretary

Ryan Muffi, Public Relations Coordinator

Please note we still have two positions open: Treasurer and Fundraising Coordinator. If you are interested, please email towsonunami@gmail.com (prospective candidates must be Towson University Graduate Students).

We hope you are enjoying your summer! Stay tuned for updates on Fall member meetings and events. If you would like to receive emails from the Towson University NAMI on Campus listserv, please email towsonunami@gmail.com.

TED talks screening

 Hello everyone!

NAMI at TU is working hard to bring you some great events in April. Our next event is a TED talks screening on Friday, April 11th from 7:00- 8:30 PM. We will be hosting a screening and discussing of TED talks related to depression and suicide. This event will be interactive allowing attendees to engage in discussion and advocacy related to these incredibly  relevant topics. For more information please visit our facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/560037994093972/

We hope to see you there!

ACA Panel

Hi NAMI friends!

This semester we are hosting a panel for two FREE continuing education credits. The topic is the Affordable Care Act and Mental Health. Please join us April 5, 2014 from 1 to 3 P.M. at the University Union (Paws room, Towson University). NPR's own Joe Neel will be moderating the event, and we have four wonderful and knowledgeable speakers attending. This event will be great for both professionals in the field (free CE's!) and students (networking!). If you have ANY questions at all, please email us at towsonunami@gmail.com.

Update: Pre-registration for CEs is not required, however, we do suggest you get there early to ensure you are able to find a seat. We are limited in space to about 100 people. Once on site, we will ask you to check in and fill out an evaluation form to meet CE requirements.
Lastly, the CEs are only available APA accredited psychologists.

A very, very special thanks to Towson University's chapter of PsiChi, our panelists and moderator, the Towson University Counseling Center, Student Affairs, and the Collaboration Fund for all of their hard work and dedication!