Mental Health

Improve Mental Health at Carleton

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In 2015, the Carleton Graduate Students’ Association in partnership with the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario launched a survey on graduate mental health. The results of that survey showed that Graduate students acknowledged that there is reluctance to access mental health resources for fear of personal, funding and career reprisals. Students face a unique challenge accessing campus support services because they often do not want their supervisors, administrators or mentors to know that they are struggling and have sought help. Graduate students are also wary of running into their undergraduate students and mentees when they do ask for help from service providers, because, often times, graduate students can only access the same service providers as undergraduate students To support graduate student mental health the undersigned students, the faculty, staff, community members, and we call on Carleton University to immediately: 1- Hire an a councilor specifically for graduate students, 2- Provide a waiting room and counselling space that graduate students can access that is separate from the undergraduate space, 3- Fund a peer support program for graduate students that is run by graduate students, 4- Provide training/workshops on mental health for Teaching Assistants, 5- Extend assessments for threats to mental-well being, that are currently conducted for full-time staff, to include graduate student workers (including teaching assistants, services assistants, and contract instructors) Sign on below and help us spread the word by sharing this on all your social media networks.

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