{"id":8277,"date":"2017-11-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2023-09-12T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:01:17","slug":"seeking-help-from-peer-support-groups-at-ubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/seeking-help-from-peer-support-groups-at-ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking help from peer support groups at UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<span>Daphn\u00e9e L\u00e9vesque<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My first few years at university, I felt incredibly lonely and disconnected from the people around me.<\/p>\n<p>Having been diagnosed with a mental illness, I struggled with managing both my symptoms and academic responsibilities. I felt like I had no one to turn to and oftentimes felt as though my friends and family didn\u2019t understand me.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I ended up getting mental health support by reaching out to the different resources offered on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Through that process, I discovered that in addition to the services on campus, there are also several peer support groups hosted at UBC. I started attending them regularly, and eventually, I made some close friends and became a peer facilitator myself.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost been a year since I became a mental health peer facilitator, and I want to let people know that there is help available out there. Even though it can be hard to find it, it still exists \u2014 I promise you.<\/p>\n<p><span>There are three main peer support groups on campus that meet on a weekly or bi-weekly basis \u2014 Kaleidoscope, S.H.A.R.E and VICE. Before going into details, here\u2019s a few things to keep in mind:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The groups are student-run and operate on a peer-to-peer, drop-in basis.<\/li>\n<li>They are not replacement for other forms of treatment, such as counselling, and facilitators are not mental health professionals<\/li>\n<li>The groups are confidential and based on active-listening, rather than unsolicited advice giving<\/li>\n<li>The groups aim to provide attendees with a safe, inclusive, stigma free and non-judgmental space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubyssey.ca\/opinion\/Peer-support-groups-on-campus\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Daphn\u00e9e L\u00e9vesque My first few years at university, I felt incredibly lonely and disconnected from the people around me. Having been diagnosed with a mental illness, I struggled with managing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":8278,"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\/8277"}],"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\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthycampuses.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}