Drum roll please…….

Voilà my official finished project!!!

I know this looks much different than what I gave you a little preview of in my last post, but I decided to make a few changes (well actually a lot). The more I worked on my first draft, the more I didn’t like it. So, I decided to start from scratch and it ended up being the right way to go because I am so happy with how it turned out!

Instead of planning a whole Awareness Day at SCU, I decided it would be much more effective to create something that any University throughout the nation could use and distribute to their students. I came up with this idea of a “Mental Health Guide” so students could learn more about how to promote their own mental wellbeing and even how to spot warning signs in their peers.

I chose to design this as an info-graph to make it easy for people who are walking by to read and understand it without having to spend too much time on it. It was really important for me to make it colorful and bright so that it stands out and draws people in to read it. I strategically chose specific colors to highlight mental health awareness (green) and suicide awareness (teal and purple) to symbolize the importance of the issues. Instead of just including tips, I also wanted to include statistics and red flags so that the students could have a broader understanding of how prevalent mental health issues are and also ways that they can help themselves and this crisis.

I really believe that this would be effective on a college campus and I hope that it could help students to better take care of their mental health and end the stigma of depression and suicide. I was very passionate about this project and I spent a lot of time trying to make sure I included every detail necessary to make it as effective as possible. I hope you all found my finished project to be effective and maybe it even taught you something you didn’t know before! Feel free to share this with your friends at school or get permission from your RA to print it out and hang it up in your dorm! Don’t let this problem get worse, help each other out and promote mental health!