Mental Health Action Week 2024

Planning committee, clubs, & organizations callout

Meet the Board!

Chair: Lily Snyder

Co-Chair: Mohammad Pehlari

Head of Advertising & Design Committee: Mallory Fonte

Head of Marketing & Outreach Committee:

Maddy Dreibelbis

What is MHAW?

• Mental Health Action Week is a week of events every Spring dedicated to understanding, nurturing, and celebrating our mental health
• We are an Ad-Hoc committee of Purdue Student Government (PSG)
• This is Purdue’s 7th year doing MHAW
• Our theme this year is BLOOM
• You Belong.
• You are Loved.
• You have much to Offer.
• You will Overcome.
• You are Mindful.
• BLOOM.

Planning Committees

Advertising and Design: Lead by Mallory, this committee will…

• Make social media posts for @purduemhaw on Instagram (go follow!!)
• Create posters/flyers for
• Big events
• General MHAW advertising around campus
• Calendar of events
• TV graphics around campus
• Design
• Stickers
• Pins
• Tshirts

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These tasks will give you great resume-building skills such as team collaboration, organizational design, and advertising/campaign development!

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Planning Committees

Marketing & Outreach: Lead by Maddy, this committee will…

• Create an announcement for PSG Boilermaker Briefing email
• Email
• Past clubs/orgs involved in MHAW
• New clubs/orgs we want this year!
• Professors/staff with mental health backgrounds/interest
• Make an announcement for BoilerTV to display across campus
• Distribute flyers on bulletin boards across campus
• Handout bandanas on Bandana Pick-Up Day for clubs/orgs

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These tasks will give you great resume-building skills such as campus networking, professional writing, and organizational development!

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Our Mission

“Cultivating a community of care by equipping students with the tools they need to take action relating to mental health, empowering students to prioritize their wellbeing, and uniting as one university to destigmatize mental health.”

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Who is involved?

• PSG + CAPS
• PGSG
• Purdue Administration
• Purdue Athletics
• Cultural Centers
• Fraternities, Sororities, & Cooperatives
• Recreation & Wellness
• Residence Hall Associations
• Other Clubs/Orgs. (from last year)
• YOU!!!

This Year:

BLOOM.

• Monday, Feb 26th: Kickoff event and speaker
• Tuesday: Takeover Tuesday in the CoRec with CAPS, PUSH, RecWell, and PGSG
• Wednesday: TBD
• Thursday: Cultural Block Party
• Friday, March 1st: (tentative) Concert!

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• Green Bandana Project
• Purdue Online video collaboration
• @purduemhaw on Instagram
• And more!

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Your club/organization is able to hold an event any of these days! These are just the big events for each day. All we ask is that your event is mental health/self-care related in some way :)

PSG Small Grants

We can help you with funding!

• The PSG Small Grant is designed to provide financial support directly and quickly for events and club initiatives to registered Purdue Student Organizations.
• The Small Grants Program will fund up to $500
• No more than $200 for food/beverage
• To apply:
• Sign in to BoilerLink
• Go to PSG’s page
• Go to forms and find PSG Small Grant Form

Timeline of events

Registration Form/APFs due February 9th

Bandana & Materials Distribution (TBD/late February)

MHAW: February 26th - March 1st

WE WANT YOU!

• For clubs and organizations:
• We will help with money
• We will provide MHAW materials
• We will advertise
• We are here to help you in any way, shape, or form

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• For the planning committee:
• You will meet with Lily, Mohammad, Mallory, and Maddy weekly on Thursdays at 8pm in Krach.

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And, together, we will make this MHAW bigger and better than ever!!!

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Get Involved!

MHAW 2024 GroupMe

Event Registration

Planning Committee registration

Thank you for attending!

If you have any more questions or concerns, feel free to email mpehlari@purdue.edu or snyde283@purdue.edu