{"id":509,"date":"2014-10-21T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/?p=509"},"modified":"2014-10-15T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T22:48:43","slug":"graduate-students-walk-for-mental-illness-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2014\/10\/21\/graduate-students-walk-for-mental-illness-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate students walk for mental illness awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2014\/10\/NAMI-Walk-October-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-516 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"OT students at the NAMI Walk\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2014\/10\/NAMI-Walk-October-2014-300x259.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2014\/10\/NAMI-Walk-October-2014-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2014\/10\/NAMI-Walk-October-2014-1024x884.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2014\/10\/NAMI-Walk-October-2014-435x375.jpg 435w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2014\/10\/NAMI-Walk-October-2014.jpg 2036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jannessa Miller &amp; Rachel Little<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Saturday, October 11th started off as a dreary, rainy day. \u00a0However, four graduate students braved the weather to participate in the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk of York County. <span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Rachel Little, Jannessa Miller, Carly Stull, and Sarah Williams<\/strong> <\/span>walked to raise awareness of mental illness and to promote the role of occupational therapy for people with mental illness. \u00a0The students were featured in a news article in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ydr.com\/local\/ci_26709745\/nami-york-hosts-walk-boost-awareness-raise-money\" target=\"_blank\">York Daily Record<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong>The students are featured in a video interview at the bottom of the article. Good job, ladies!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Jannessa Miller<\/strong>, B.S., MOTS (&#8217;15) shared her thoughts about the experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Before completing my first fieldwork rotation at Springfield Hospital Center this past summer (an inpatient psychiatric hospital), I never really gave mental illness much thought. I knew that it was an important part of our profession and that it tragically affects multiple people and their families throughout the world, but I didn&#8217;t know how much help this population really needed and the ways that I could contribute. Last summer I realized just how unique and fun it can be working with this population, as well as all of the lessons I can learn from them. Because of this, participating in an awareness walk with the NAMI association was a no-brainer for me.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em> Throughout history and still today patients suffering from a mental illness face a marginalizing stigma and it continues to be a hushed topic in our society. I joined this awareness event in order to show my support in ending this stigma and increasing the help this population receives. As a bonus, it was also an opportunity to come armed with an OT shirt and OT brochures to talk about our profession and the role we play by providing these patients with a little extra help so that they can become the best versions of themselves possible.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, October 11th started off as a dreary, rainy day. \u00a0However, four graduate students braved the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2014\/10\/21\/graduate-students-walk-for-mental-illness-awareness\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graduate students walk for mental illness awareness<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-accomplishments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}