Description
Elevate mental health awareness and support at USC
Goals
- Increase awareness, knowledge of, and sensitivity towards mental health issues in the USC community
- Educate the community about all existing mental health resources both on and off campus
- Provide meaningful programming to create avenues for open communication about mental health across USC workplace settings
- Identify barriers to accessing services, reduce stigma associated with mental health services, and find solutions to common barriers, with a special focus on underrepresented community members
- Advocate for policies to improve access to quality mental health and well-being services for all employees
Co-leads
Chantal Young
Director, KSOM Office of Well-being; Director, Medical Student Well-being; Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education & Psychiatry,
Keck School of Medicine
Cynthia Ryan
Associate Director, Clinical Services,
USC WorkWell Center