Press Release
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Université de Moncton Receives $83,000 from Bell Let’s Talk to Support and Enhance its Mental Health Resources
Photo: Gilles C. Roy, Vice-Rector, Academic and Research; Laurence Lepage, Student-peer helper; Ian Dauphinee, Student-peer helper; Sophie LeBlanc Roy, Co-Director, Strategic Student Workforce Management; Monica LeBlanc, Student-peer helper Dr. Denis Prud'homme, President and Vice-Chancellor; Mary Deacon, President of Bell Let's Talk; Joey Frenette, Student-peer helper; Lisa Poirier, Head of Health and Psychology; Marie-Pier Mazerolle, Student-peer helper; Marjolène Wilmot, Student-peer helper; and Chloé McLaughlin, Student-peer helper.
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The Université de Moncton is the only Atlantic university to have its project selected in the Bell Let's Talk request for proposals. The institution will receive $83,000 to implement its project to support and improve mental health resources for students on its three campuses.
Bell Let's Talk donates $1 million from the Bell Let's Talk Post-Secondary Fund to eleven Canadian colleges, universities and CEGEPs. The goal is to support initiatives that align with Canada's National Standard for Mental Health and Well-Being for Post-Secondary Students.
"Thanks to the financial support of the Bell Let's Talk Post-Secondary Fund, our "Sustaining and Improving the Reach of Mental Health Care" project has become a reality, and I am proud to share this success with my colleagues in the Health and Psychology Department at the Université de Moncton! The resources dedicated to strengthening the mental health of students on the three campuses of the Université de Moncton will be improved by this grant," said Lisa Poirier, Acting Manager of the Moncton Campus Health and Psychology Department.
This project consists of speeding up access to mental health care by reducing waiting times for consultation requests to the Health and Psychology Service, adding human resources and modernizing mental health material resources, either through video capsules or through the use of new technologies.
It also aims, among other things, to share mental health resources among the three campuses through the creation of psychoeducational video vignettes, while improving the operational efficiency of the Peer Support Centre to expand its activities from the Moncton campus to the Edmundston and Shippagan campuses over the next two years.
This project will also provide a bursary to a student coordinator at the Peer Support Centre and help meet the Mental Health Commission of Canada's National Standard for Mental Health and Well-Being for Post-Secondary Students.
Bell Let's Talk is an initiative of Bell Canada to promote mental health in Canada and encourage awareness, acceptance and action. Find out more about the selected projects.
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