coe-staff: May is Mental Health Awareness Month

[Willow Gutierrez]

*** This email was sent on behalf of Rachana Patel, Mental Wellbeing Specialist ***

Hi everyone!

Hope your spring term is going well. This year’s theme for May is Mental Health Awareness Month is Mental Health is Health: Embrace the Balance. I am writing today to share some faculty/staff inclusive events for May is Mental Health Awareness Month:


  *   May 4th- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Walk: This is UO’s inaugural AFSP Campus Out of the Darkness Walk. We encourage you all to participate and create a team for your units/departments. Bring your family/friends! Caesar the No Drama Llama, the Oregon Duck, and Thor will be there along with free pizza (while supplies last). Register here<https://supporting.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=10060&language=en>. Please note that donations/fundraising are not required to join! We open check-in/registration tables at 10am and the programming with start at 11am. The walk route is slightly over 1 mile just around the Memorial Quad -EMU areas.



  *   May 15th: Campus Tree Walk from 12pm-1pm. Meet at the Moon Tree on the northeast side of the EMU. Join Whitey Lueck, horticulturist, naturalist, tree lover, and landscape architecture professor emeritus as he describes the grand conifer trees on campus.



  *   May 16th: University Day<https://studentlife.uoregon.edu/uday#:~:text=All%20students%2C%20staff%2C%20faculty%20members,13th%20Avenue%20and%20University%20Street.> (not part of MMHAM programming, but encourage all to participate pending department approvals!)



  *   May 20th: Mental Health Art Show from 4pm-6pm in the Redwood Auditorium. Artwork created by students in a variety of mediums will be on display at the Mental Health Art Show hosted by the Duck Nest Wellness Center. These pieces will reflect art that supports the artists' mental health--interpreted in different ways and from varying perspectives. Stop by to enjoy some hor d'oeuvres, live music from UO Garter Band, and thought- provoking art from UO students!



  *   May 22nd: Faculty/Staff Only Gentle Yoga at 5:15pm in Crater Lake South. Mats will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. Loose/comfortable clothing encouraged.


  *   May 29th: Campus Tree Walk from 12pm-1pm. Meet at the Moon Tree on the northeast side of the EMU. Whitey Lueck, founder of Friends of Trees and landscape architecture professor emeritus will guide the group around campus and describe a variety of broadleafed trees on campus including the giant maple tree in front of University Hall.



  *   May 31st: HAPI Hair Day<https://forms.office.com/r/VkZpxjuJ2Z> hosted at the BCC: Centered around Black faculty/staff/students.



  *   Month long: Faculty/Staff Bingo! Bingo cards will be available for pick up in the mail counter on the 2nd floor in the admin suite starting April 29th.


UO Events calendar has or will have all of these by May 1 listed. You can scan the QR code on the posters you’ll be seeing soon for May is Mental Health Awareness Month for updated information. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions as well at rpatel at uoregon.edu<mailto:rpatel at uoregon.edu>.


Kindly,
Rachana

Rachana Patel, M.A., MFT
She/Her/Hers
Mental Wellbeing Specialist | UHS Wellbeing
rpatel at uoregon.edu<mailto:rpatel at uoregon.edu> | https://health.uoregon.edu/ducknest

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