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Student organizations improving Duke's mental health climate [DukeChronicle.com]

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For students seeking help with mental health issues, student-run organizations are increasingly providing support.

Recently, the number of student groups created to address issues involving mental health has risen. These efforts—such as Peer for You, You’re Not Alone and the Me Too campaign—are working to create a more inclusive campus climate. Gary Glass, associate director for outreach and developmental programming for Counseling and Psychological Services, said that he has seen significant changes in attitudes toward mental health in his time at Duke.

“It’s almost a completely different place,” he said. “Starting around five or six years ago, we started to see the campus environment really move towards being a more supportive, more empathic community.”

He noted that mental health has received wider attention nationally over the past three or four years because the issue is becoming increasingly significant.

 

[For more of this story, written by Rob Palmisano, go to http://www.dukechronicle.com/a...ental-health-climate]

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