D-C Fights the Stigma Student Leadership Team

D-C Fights the Stigma is Dundee-Crown's mental health campaign, but it is more than that. The goals of D-C Fights the Stigma inform everything that we do at Dundee-Crown. As a campaign, we aim to: 1. Increase awareness and educate students and staff about mental health and mental illness. Mental health is an aspect of physical health. 2. Destigmatize mental health issues; emphasizing that depression and anxiety are experienced by most if not all people at one time or another. To struggle is to be human. 3. Destigmatize help-seeking behaviors. Some statistics suggest that 80% of affected teens will not seek help when it is needed for fear of being labelled as weak. 4. Increase EMPATHY through story-telling. Story-telling is both healing and revealing to others fostering compassion. 5. Emphasize that we all need to actively practice mental health promoting behaviors; mental health CANNOT be maintained or promoted passively. The student leadership team is an essential part of the D-C Fights the Stigma campaign and offers students an opportunity to both have a voice in how our school talks about mental health as well as offering a place for personal support. Join us!