See Through Stigma Awareness Week UChicago
About STS
What is STS: #SeeThroughStigma Awareness Week is a week-long of programming put on by Active Minds and Axis UChicago, whose purpose is to unravel stigma around dis/ability and mental health in order to promote self- identification.
ee Through Stigma Week is an annual week of programming dedicated to unraveling stigma around mental health and dis/ability by providing a forum where dis/ability and mental health can be discussed openly, in order to ensure that everyone can receive the support, services, and respect that they deserve.
While Axis and Active Minds work in different spheres, we found that one common issue that both mental health and dis/ability deal with is self-identification. Mental health and dis/ability are umbrella terms that encompass a wide variety of experiences and identities, and serve to silence rather than encourage everybody’s unique experience and perspective. These terms often encourage a general neglect of the details of lives affected by disability or struggles in mental health, which in turn creates a stigma surrounding these topics, such that they are not discussed openly, making it difficult for individuals who might benefit from support or help from seeking it. It’s now time to open the conversation, address the stigma that exists around mental health and dis/ability, promote self- identification, and #SeeThroughStigma.
When is STS: January 9-January 13 2017
STS 2017 Arts Coffeehouse Sign Up
The See Through Stigma Arts Coffehouse is the culmination of See Through Stigma Week 2017. At the STS Arts Festival, we encourage students and community members to share pieces of their own work, be it poetry, paintings and drawings, stories, music, etc. relating to mental health, stigma, and/or disability. We encourage art and media of all kinds.
1/13/2017, 6-8PM, Hutch CommonsWho We Are
Axis UChicago
Axis is a community of allies dedicated to bringing dis/ability* related discussion, advocacy, and community service to the University of Chicago and Chicagoland area.
Active Minds UChicago
Active Minds is the only organization working to utilize the student voice to change the conversation about mental health on college campuses. By developing and supporting chapters of a student-run mental health awareness, education, and advocacy group on campuses, the organization works to increase students’ awareness of mental health issues, provide information and resources regarding mental health and mental illness, encourage students to seek help as soon as it is needed, and serve as liaison between students and the mental health community.
STS 2017 Board
Alita Carbone
Tom Carden
Mahy El-Shikh
Nikita Mehta
Laurel Meng
Casey McKenna
Katherine Ordonez
Yolanda Yu
Katie Zimmerman
History
See Through Stigma was founded in 2015 by College students Alita Carbone (AB 2017), Madeline Klinger (AB 2016), and Grace Koh (AB 2016).
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