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Depression Lecture

The group consists of 9 students at Community High School chosen by Diane Grant, a guidance counselor at CHS. Similar groups exist in the other high schools in Ann Arbor. Despite the differences between the groups, they all have one goal in common: to raise awareness about depression. The groups are all part of a program set up by the University of Michigan Depression Center, and they all started from one place.

On December 3rd, 2009, the University of Michigan Depression Center held a peer-to-peer depression awareness campaign conference for students from the area’s high schools.  The conference aimed to educate the students about the stigma, causes and treatments of depression. The ultimate purpose was to inspire the students to raise awareness of depression in their respective schools, and make them be fully equipped to help their peers.  The peer-to-peer depression conference has inspired Community High School, as well as other high schools in the Ann Arbor area, to take action on an issue we all have to deal with: depression.  Our first step in raising awareness about depression was to start a peer-to-peer group at community high school, which allows anyone at community to meet with any of the 9 students who has been exposed to professional education of depression.

The University of Michigan Depression Center started this program because they wanted to raise awareness of depression and lower stigma around depression around local high schools.  The Center will assist the groups in forming a campaign to raise awareness in their schools.   Each high school group that went to the depression conference has to write proposals on lowering stigma in their schools.  The peer to peer mentoring group at community decided that it would help our school lower stigma by having professional speakers who are experienced with depression come in and talk to us about different ways to cope with depression and things that could lead to depression.

About once a month since March, the peer-to-peer mentoring group has been inviting guest speakers from U of M to come talk to students at community high school about depression.  The event is free and provides a free lunch when you attend.  The peers from community encourage everyone to attend these lecture, regardless if you are depressed or not, you could learn something new that might benefit you or your friends in the future.

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