{"id":5776,"date":"2016-08-04T23:22:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2023-09-12T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:01:19","slug":"2-5-million-invested-into-mental-well-being-at-ubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/2-5-million-invested-into-mental-well-being-at-ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"2.5 Million Invested into Mental Well-being at UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The University of British Columbia\u00a0has\u00a0received\u00a0a two and a half million dollar investment in a second <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/students.ubc.ca\/livewell\/services\/wellness-centre\">wellness centre <\/a><span>and the general expansion of mental health services on campus.\u00a0 The money will provide funds for nine new counsellors, an increased number of Access and Diversity Counsellors, a new Director of Well-being and a second location for the Wellness Centre with three professional staff members who will act as Wellness Advisors, among other services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe want to emphasize that mental health is part of the health continuum and to reduce the barriers for those seeking help,\u201d said Patricia Mirwaldt,\u00a0Director of Student Health Services and overseer of the current Wellness Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The initiative responds to\u00a0<span>UBC\u2019s 2016 Undergraduate Experience Survey that reveals\u00a0<span>that 67 per cent of students report stress, anxiety, and depression as factors that negatively affect their academic performance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubyssey.ca\/news\/money-invested-in-to-mental-wellbeing-on-campus\/?ref=frontpage\">Read the full article <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of British Columbia\u00a0has\u00a0received\u00a0a two and a half million dollar investment in a second wellness centre and the general expansion of mental health services on campus.\u00a0 The money will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":5785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}